Daylight robbery denies Louth victory

By now everyone knows what happened on Sunday. A simple scoreline of Meath 1-12 Louth 1-10 does not even hint at the full story.

Louth's long wait for a Leinster title goes on thanks to referee Martin Sludden failing to spot Joe Sheridan's try in the final moments of the match. Louth's manager Peter Fitzpatrick, summed up the feeling of a county when he said "I honestly thought he (the ref) was Dick Turpin without a mask. It was pure daylight robbery"

The chaos that ensued afterwards hasn't abated. Will there/won't there be a replay? Still no word but as time goes on it seems less likely. The match has made it onto all the news programmes since Sunday and was even raised in the Seanad today. The fairest and most logical outcome is to replay the match but as usual things get very complicated very quickly when administrators, the media, pundits and other vested interests get involved. For once it would be good if the spirit of the sport took precedent over all the spin and posturing