Michael Anthony O'Connell wants "disgraceful" Derrytresk dumped out of the club championship.

The Tyrone and Ulster champions beat O'Connell's Dromid Pearse in Sunday's All-Ireland junior club championship semi-final at O'Moore Park but the disgusted Kerryman wants the result reversed after he claims the victors embarked on a campaign of dirty tricks:

"We were beaten by unfair tactics," he says in the Independent. "At the start of the game, three of my players were caught by the testicles.

"When our fellas went to shake hands with them, the Derrytresk players went for their testicles and pulled them at the start of the game. That conduct has no place on a football field. What they wanted was for our players to retaliate, but we are better than that.

"Somebody has to put their foot down. What happened on Sunday has no place in the GAA; it was disgraceful.

"I don't think I will ever go to a football game again if they are not thrown out. The GAA has to make a stand now.

"There were kids crying in the stand, frightened by what was going on. How do you expect kids to go to football games when this happens?

"They absolutely destroyed us. They shattered the team, our lads never before witnessed anything like that. We have no problem being beaten fair and square out on the field but we weren't beaten fairly." Tweet

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