May 07

King Henry Gets Blow to the Groin Area

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Henry, a blow to the groin, pulling off the ball. All part of the job.
Henry, a blow to the groin, pulling off the ball. All part of the job.
After all the controversy earlier in the year, now apparently forgotten, when tigerish Tyrone player ‘Ricey’ McMenamin was publicly castigated for the offence of ‘cupping’ the bollocks of tigerish Kerry forward Paul Galvin, the latest off the ball incident may have the newly appointed CCCC viewing their DVD with more than a raised eyebrow. Why?

Well, according to Kilkenny selector Martin Fogarty, Henry Shefflin “received a blow to the groin area”, adding that his injury would be monitored. If that’s the sort of thing that’s going on out on a hurling pitch these days, it’s certainly worth getting a look at the video evidence.

One source told Talking Balls: ‘Some of these things aren’t the sort of things you would expect to see in a hurling match. There’s families present for God’s sake.”

Looks like new CCCC Chairman Seamy Woods will have his work cut out for him if these are the sort of X-Rated video nasties he has to review.

Fogarty also explained how Brian Hogan received his injury: “Brian was going down for the ball, off-guard a bit, and got a shot. That’s how these things happen.”

Also of note, Cats captain Micheal Fennelly was a late withdrawal from their team after becoming the latest inter-county player to be hit by the extremely virulent strain of mumps to hit the country this year.

Talking Balls readers should be on alert and keep a look out for the symptoms of mumps especially with all the health alerts going about at the minute. One symptom for example is Orchitis, which is a painful inflammation of the testicle.

Talking Balls is unaware of inflammations of the testicle that wouldn’t be painful, but then we’re not doctors. Anyhow, if it’s not mumps, it’s swine flu. Whatever next?