O’Connor worried referee could ruin decider

Kilkenny’s 1993 All-Ireland captain Eddie O’Connor fears Barry Kelly could spoil Sunday’s All-Ireland final as a spectacle.

O’Connor says the game with Tipperary will be “a tsunami of hurling” if the Westmeath referee lets the game flow.

There is scepticism about Kelly in Kilkenny after he sent off HenryShefflin for two yellow cards in last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Cork, a dismissal which was later overturned.