Furious Fitzgerald blasts ‘horsing and dragging’

Davy Fitzgerald has slammed the hurling rule book’s glaring anomalies, lambasting the lack of punishment for the persistent "horsing and dragging" of Clare hurlers off-the-ball.

Clare’s Podge Collins, having pulled off David Redmond’s face guard, was red carded in first-half injury-time, a decision which disgusted Fitzgerald.

The All-Ireland winning manager, who earlier this year called for the introduction of a second referee to cut out the growing number of off-the-ball incidents during a game, insisted a player should only be sent off for hurting an opponent.