McGuinness: black card should be red-carded
October 04, 2016
Mayo's Seamus O'Shea is shown a black card from referee Eddie Kinsella during the 2015 All Ireland semi final replay.
Jim McGuinness says the black card "is ruining the game".
As far as Donegal's 2012 All-Ireland winning manager is concerned, the banishing of Jonny Cooper and Lee Keegan from Saturday's All-Ireland SFC final replay for innocuous fouls was the final straw:
"The black card dominated the All-Ireland football final. Eugene McGee, one of its architects, has said that it has cleaned up the game. In my opinion, the black card is ruining the game. You simply cannot have two of the best players in the sport leaving the game in an All-Ireland final - the biggest game of their lives - for what were, at best, fouls that merited free kicks," he writes in The Irish Times.
"It has to go. The sin bin is not a perfect solution but at least it doesn't ruin a player's day or a team's chances. He loses 10 - or even 15 - minutes; he has to go; the team is punished."
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