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I suppose I disagree in that I think Hennelly knew what he was doing after he touched the ball first. What it does though is show the difficult job the ref has. We cant agree after seeing the incident so many times never mind having to make a decision in a split second.

If 2 midfielders contest a ball and midfielder A breaks the ball away from both and midfielder B drags back/ brings down A, it's still a foul even though neither are in possession. Replace the midfielders with keeper and corner forward and this is what happened-very simplistic I appreciate.

Could it not be argued that Hennelly denied Andrews the chance to challenge Higgins for the breaking ball then? This notion that getting to the ball first=no foul is a sky sports soccer thing. It's possible to get to the ball first and then commit the foul which is what Hennelly did.

Yeah, I know but just imagine the uproar from fans, media if CO'C or Philly etc etc etc was black carded for mouthing! Talk about ruining the game by playing by the rules!

Great footballer and always came across as a gent in the media etc

Some good points being made. As an aside, I referee club games at a low enough level and the black card has been excellent in terms of 'mouthing' to the officals. Refs can give a black, yellow or even red for verbal abuse and I have found explaining to the captains before hand that a black could be dished out for any verbals to the ref has made it easier and enjoyable to ref. Now it would be a brave ref to give a black for this in an intercounty match - excuse the tangent .

[nobody appears to know what happened.]

I was at the game and could clearly see Parsons pointing out to your fellow county man who was no more than ten yards away from incident, of course he did shag all.

Don't think it was a headbut. But still boggles the mind how no action was taken.

You don't know what happened, nobody appears to know what happened.

And yet officials are supposed to "take action" based on something nobody saw?

Sid,

Just thought I might remind you that there also is no Santa Claus.

I welcome all the newbies on the blog, but could all of you have a little common sense, otherwise you won't have a lot of credibility. 

I don't want to turn this into a Mayo V Dublin feud, as most of the long-term Dublin posters on this blog are fairly decent, knowledgeable and gracious supporters.

Yeah, sorry for daring to have a different opinion to you. Thanks for the welcome though.

Beat me to it D7

Lets clarify, it was not a head butt.
Why don't you at least take the time to watch it before you making stupid assertions.

Let me just clarify because you seem to be unable to get the gist of my point...I've no doubt that there was no head butt. It was said here that there was which is utter bullshit.

Beat me to it D7

What's more likely.....Philly McMahon head butts him in front of 82000 supporters, countless officials and journalists and 28 players and subs and not one says a word.....or there is an innocent coming together like-takes deep breath-O'Connor and O'Carroll last year. I remember us Dubs up in arms over this. Something similar here I would say is more possible.

But because it's Philly McMahon, let's take it that it was a vicious head butt.

For me midfield should be Donnelly and Fenton. Would love to see a Clare all star but for me Brennan was badly gassed against Kerry in the qf

True,I think he hasn't recovered from that shoulder injury. For me, I remember him in the semi v Dublin in 2013 and he tore them apart in the first half.

Pulled his hammer but he wasn't great that day alright

Mannion was lost out in the half forwards and is very one footed, Costello is very much different in this regard.

Also Mayo losing a player to a head butt?? I love this site and have enjoyed reading for many years but this is Mayo Blog stuff.

Hi all,

I have a Hill ticket for myself through the Parnell Park Scheme. I also have an upper hogan which I'm looking to swap for another Hill if there's any takers.

Feel free to private msg.

Thanks.