Eamon Dunphy has waded into the scenes witnessed at Fenway Park on Sunday night.
The Super 11 hurling clash between Galway and Dublin ended with a narrow win for the Tribesmen, but all anyone wanted to talk about after it seems was the unruly scenes, or brawl, as some described at the end of the second quarter.
Dublin and Galway players engaged in a 22-man scrap that seemed to liven up the 30,000 crowd but was tut-tutted upon by many in Ireland and America.
The player’s involed played it down, no-one was seriously hurt, but it appears one of our most outspoken football pundits was very offended by the fracas at the home of the Boston Red Sox.
Speaking on 2FM’s Game On show tonight, Eamon Dunphy slammed the actions of the players
“If you want to do that kind of stuff, go cage-fighting.
“I never had sympathy for people who didn’t have the discipline to play a game and take what you get, take what comes without losing the head.”
The RTE football pundit then explained that there is no place for physical fighting in top level sport as both sides lost their heads
“Discipline and self-discipline is part of sport and it’s part of life. Indiscipline and that kind of stuff is not really what sport is about.”
“Rule-breakers in sport are at odds with the spirit of sport.”
We’re just amazed he didn’t mention Henry Shefflin or AP McCoy or Ruby Walsh in his rant.
