Canning: hurling will end up like a game of tiddlywinks

HURLING is in danger of becoming a game of “tiddlywinks” if referees continue to hand out yellow and red cards with the same abandon seen so far this summer, according to Joe Canning.

Galway have already learned the hard way that incidents which previously earned no more than a wag of the finger or a stern talking-to are now deemed serious enough to have referees scrambling for their pocket books.

Both Andy Smith and David Burke have already walked the line for Galway while the Wexford pair of David Redmond and Diarmuid Lyng were dismissed in the counties’ Leinster quarter-final played in late May.