Hurling’s free-taking debate will shape summer

ANTHONY Nash may have tagged in Patrick Horgan on Sunday but we haven’t seen the last of the goalkeeper’s thunderbolts. Not by a, ahem, long shot.

Were Horgan inclined with his first-half 22-metre free, he might have replicated his team-mate’s swashbuckling style, and brought the ball past the 20m line before shooting.

That was within his powers because of the black card blind spot highlighted last week and supposedly addressed by the GAA.