Kilmacud Crokes’ All-Ireland club title is tarnished, insists Conor Glass, after they “broke the rules” in their win over his Glen side.
Crokes had 16 players on the field for the last passage of play in January’s club final as Glen sought a match-winning goal and a replay was eventually ordered after an objection from the Derry champions.
But with talk of a counter-objection being prepared and the saga likely to rumble on further, Glen withdrew from the process, with Kilmacud declared All-Ireland champions.
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Following comments from their manager Malachy O’Rourke immediately after the game, some doubt surrounded how committed Glen were to a replay but Glass insisted that the club was entirely united behind the cause.
“I wanted the replay,” he said. “When I was on the bus on the way home I wanted the replay, 100%, and the rest of the team was like that.
“The management was like that, the whole club was like that but the more it dragged on, the more it started to fade off.
“Emmett Bradley was getting married three weeks later, boys had holidays planned so the longer it went on, the less emotional I was about it and I was happy enough to move on then.
