Incident may spark Galvin probe

WHEN Footballer of the Year Paul Galvin squares up to Cork, sparks inevitably fly.

And so it was again yesterday as the Finuge man spear-headed a Kingdom comeback against the Rebels.

Galvin may not have heard the last of an angry late confrontation with Cork’s Eoin Cadogan in which the Kerry man appeared to jab Cadogan in the mouth as he attempted to wrestle the ball back from him to take a Kerry free. The pair clashed in the league game between the counties earlier this season in an incident which resulted in both being sent off. The Central Competitions Control Committee may choose to take a closer look at the incident when they convene today, disciplinary sources said last night.

Irish International Rules boss and television analyst Anthony Tohill last night described the incident as ‘totally unacceptable.’

Speaking on The Sunday Game he said: “There are certain things, certain taboos, you don’t do and this is one of them. It is totally unacceptable. Things like that have no place in the game.”

Fellow analyst Colm O’Rourke believed the incident merited a dismissal for Galvin.

He said: “I Pat (McEnaney) had seen it, it would have been a red card. Often there is reaction from disciplinary bodies to what we (on The Sunday Game) say. They should make up their own minds on it.”