John Fogarty: Cody and Shefflin should bury the hatchet
ALTERCATION: Kilkenny manager Brian Cody and Galway manager Henry Shefflin shake hands. Pic: ©INPHO
The legend goes that Brian Cody’s defence for Henry Shefflin against a red card in front of the Central Hearings Committee nine years ago was akin to Charlton Heston’s Moses.
Taking two hurleys, one in each hand, he is said to have struck them together in front of a startled committee and repeated it for emphasis. That, he explained, is what happened when Shefflin picked up the first yellow card in the All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Cork in Thurles. Not that he caught Lorcán McLoughlin late on the arm. Not that he chopped down on the midfielder’s hurley either. But his ash clashed with McLoughlin’s ash. Nothing more.
