Jack O’Connor has questioned why Michael Murphy wasn’t red-carded for striking Dylan Casey during Kerry’s heavy Allianz Football League final defeat to Donegal.

The 2012 All-Ireland winning captain went on to score 1-5 after a closed-fist tackle on the Kerry corner back – who required medical attention – in the first half warranted just a yellow card from referee David Gough.

Asked about the incident by reporters in Croke Park, the Kerry boss replied: “I agree with you, and you have better eyesight than a few other lads that were looking at it, let’s put it like that.

“Yeah, so why can’t I say it? That’s what happened.”

O’Connor’s opposite number Jim McGuinness played the Arsene Wegner card when saying: "I didn't see anything of it, to be honest with you, but the game is very physical out there."

He then went on to say: “Going back to the kick-outs, the game is very physical on kick-outs at the moment. There’s an awful lot of blocking going on at kick-outs. There’s an awful lot of physicality going on at kick-outs across all the games.

“There’s an awful lot of screening going on in the attacking third, which I think somebody’s going to get hurt from. I think people are going to people to hand them the ball, and they’re running into people to release people. That’s not in the rulebook.”

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