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Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald has asked the Clare County Board to take action on the verbal abuse he received from the stands when his team lost the Round 2 qualifying match to his native Clare.
Fitzgerald also gave the first hint that he can still see his senior year in his role as Wexford’s manager.
“I will decide my future in the best interest of the team. Whatever is best for them, that is what will be done. They have left me, without a doubt, what they want inside (dressing room), but it will be what suits them ”.
Tony Kelly changed the style when Clare achieved a comfortable seven-point victory at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise.
After the game, Fitzgerald said: “I had to endure criticism from an anonymous individual who was sitting in the stands. I am calling on the Clare County Board to investigate the problem.
“The way I was abused today is not correct and should be dealt with,” explained the former All-Ireland winning coach with Banner County in 2013.
“The abuse and things that an individual threw at me personally there today is not right and has no place to throw.
“I urge and encourage Clare to look at that and not let her do to anyone else what she did there today. You cannot tolerate that behavior.
“The best team won today without a doubt,” he added.
Kelly continued her smooth scoring career in this year’s championship, emerging with a career count of 1-15. Wexford trailed by 10 points at halftime and was only able to cut the deficit by three playing with the wind in the second half, without improving his provincial semi-final performance in the loss to Galway.
Fitzgerald said he was touched by Clare’s players who pitied him after the loss.
“It means a lot, anyone who has seen me play for Clare knows what it meant to play for my own county and the stick that my dad and I (Pat, Clare GAA secretary) have taken sometimes is so unjustified, it’s a shame and not it’s okay.
“It has to stop, end of story. There is no place for it in the GAA at all. What they (Clare) did there (the field) and the sideline, to be fair, was perfect. “
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