Jim Gavin: High card count ‘reactionary’

Jim Gavin described the eight cards shown to Dublin players – one red, five yellow and two black – as "reactionary", hinting that the Kerry footballers influenced referee Eddie Kinsella.

The Dublin manager also accused Kerry corner-back Fionn Fitzgerald of hitting the deck quite quickly following Michael Fitzsimons’ frontal charge. Kinsella dismissed Fitzsimons on a straight red card. Philly McMahon and Denis Bastick were ordered off on black card offences.

“Obviously we’ll need to look at the decisions again. They seem to me to be a bit reactionary,” said Gavin. “A lot of the opposing players seemed to put him [Kinsella] under pressure. Maybe the wrong call was made, we’ll need to review the tape, and for the sending off, the player (Fitzgerald) seemed to go down quite quickly so again we’ll have to have a look at that.