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Monday, 06 November 2006 |
Australia and Ireland brawl in Gaelic Games
Australia kept the Cormac McAnallen Trophy by defeating Ireland at Croke Park on Sunday but brawling marred the International Rules contest.
The first quarter witnessed some disgraceful behaviour with the Australians targeting their Irish opponents and getting the same sort of treatment back and the violence in the game is sure to lead to renewed calls for the GAA to walk away from the compromise rules code even though the contest was a 82,000 sell out.
The trouble erupted before the ball had even been thrown in with several players from both sides being involved in aggressive behaviour.
Chaos went on for most of the first quarter with Brent Stanton scoring an early Australian goal whilst a brawl was happening just some 50 metres away in the middle of the field.
As the trouble continued Ireland's Paul Galvin and Matthew Lappin were the first players to be yellow carded after a spot of brawling and Tadgh Kennelly had to leave after being injured.
The brawling will be what gets all the attention and will detract from the fact that the Irish side were deficient in terms of basic skills against a team, which had better footballers and fitter athletes.
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