Tom McGlinchey vents anger at ref as Waterford lose out

Waterford 0-11 Wexford 0-12: An irate Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey remonstrated with referee Shane Hehir on the full-time whistle after Wexford squashed their promotion aspirations.

In his view, key decisions contributed to their second one-point defeat. The Déise lost the free count 36 to 17 and he felt particularly aggrieved with a late free given against Conor Prunty after the midfielder produced a clean fetch. McGlinchey reviewed a clip of the incident up in the stand after the game.

“One of the most senior players said inside to me there ‘why is it always a Waterford footballer getting knocks like that’. Ye saw it yourselves lads, I brought ye in to show ye the DVD. They talk about a mark last week at Congress and there we have a young fella at 19 years of age, in his first year playing inter-county football and gave an exhibition of high fielding, who made a clean catch and a free given against him. That was the free that won them the game. Of course, it’s frustrating. You have to wonder about some of these referees.”