TRIBE TRIMMING A PUNCH IN THE GUT FOR FITZY

ISSUES: Davy Fitzgerald not a happy camper after the match

- BY JOHN FALLON

ANTRIM manager Davy Fitzgerald said there are issues he is going to take up with GAA officials in Croke Park this week but stressed that while he wasn't happy with the sending off of Declan McCloskey just before the interval, they were never going to beat Galway at Pearse Stadium on Saturday.

McCloskey got a red card from referee Thomas Gleeson after his attention was drawn by linesman Johnny Murphy to an off the ball incident between McCloskey and Galway's Tom Monaghan.

"If it's a sending off, it's a sending off by two, not by one," said Fitzgerald. "I had him distraught at half-time.

"He said, 'I got a punch in the stomach. I reacted, but I got a punch in the stomach'. If you get a punch in the stomach ...

"It's not good enough. Would we have won the game? Definitely not.