After the dust settled on Mayo's epic defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland SFC semi-final, one of the major talking points was John Small's challenge on Eoghan McLaughlin, which went unpunished.
Mayo manager James Horan could not hide his anger at the "dangerous" tackle that ended McLaughlin's afternoon.
The half-back was met by a hefty challenge from Small in the second half that could easily have led to a red card, but referee Conor Lane opted not to even award a free. Colm Basquel surged forward after the incident and almost goaled for Dublin.
Ultimately the Green and Red prevailed but The Sunday Game panel still felt it was a flashpoint that should have been punished strongly.
"There's two mistakes," said Oisin McConville. "First of all not calling the foul, and then there's not stopping the game because there was obviously a serious head injury. These are the things we want to eradicate from the game. It was a very easy call I felt."
Colm Cooper agreed. "It's a red card all day long for me," said the Kerryman.
"Absolutely 100%. I can see why John Small went in. He wanted to make contact and try and hit him, but there are consequences if you miss it. It's clearly not shoulder to shoulder, and that's why I think it was a definite red card. He catches him in the face
"The big problem for me was, Basquel nearly went on and got a goal. If that hit the net what happens? It could have transformed the game. It's a big decision that was missed."
Kevin McStay, who was co-commentator for RTÉ Sport's coverage of the game, believed at the time it was a fair hit but he admitted that he got his initial call wrong.
"I think it's important that I say that of course now that I've viewed it numerous times with the lads all day, it is an absolute red card," he said.
"In real time, the angle I was at, and also the replay didn't go up as speedily as normally because obviously it was known it was a bad injury... I was 80, 90 metres away from it in the co-commentary position.
"I'm not trying to excuse it. It was a red card, It was a bad call from me. It was a shocking, shocking hit."
