Cummins calls for more leniency from refs

WEXFORD’S Darren Stamp may feel hurling is becoming ‘a game for sissies’ but a more nuanced dissection of the ancient code emerged in Croke Park yesterday among some of the Tipperary players he faced in Semple Stadium on Sunday.

Speaking amid the same corridors of power which, according to Stamp, are frequented by ‘a crowd of eejits... making up stupid rules’ it was hardly surprising that the All-Ireland champions refrained from echoing such harsh words.

That said, there was some common ground.