"I nearly got sick and threw up on top of the paper when I read it"
August 30, 2016
David Gough issues a yellow card to Kerry's Peter Crowley during the All Ireland SFC semi final.
Bernard Flynn finds Jarlath Burns' defence of the black card rather unpalatable.
The former Meath attacker is adamant that the controversial third card has to go and insists that his fellow county man David Gough was right to keep it in his pocket during Sunday's classic All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Kerry.
Referring in rather colourful terms to the chairman of the Standing Rules Committee, Flynn told RTE:
"Jarlath Burns came out this week and I nearly got sick and threw up on top of the paper when I read it, with all due respect, and he said the black card is doing its job - it is not doing its job.
"It has to be got rid of ASAP. Everyone is saying it, managers and players alike. A good referee will use the yellow and red and that's all you need.
"David Gough... in his mind, he said, 'there's no black card in my game today'. That's what made it a great game. The way he refereed it was one of the main reasons we got a great game.
"I thought the referee tried his best to let it go. The Kerry people won't be too happy with one or two decisions, a few 50-50 calls went against them. I just thought it was something special.
"He did everything he could to say, get rid of the black card and he refereed the game the way it should be refereed."
