Pete McGrath has disagreed with Mayo's Aidan O'Shea over claims that he did not dive in his team's qualifier victory over Fermanagh earlier this month.

The Ernesiders boss was speaking on Newstalk's Off The Ball programme yesterday evening and described the incident - which led to a Mayo penalty as they went on to win the game by 2-14 to 1-12 in Castlebar - as "taking gamesmanship to an extreme level".

"He did what he did and he would not be the only one who would do that, let's be honest," said McGrath, who recently confirmed that he will remain in charge for another season.

"It's a very, very blatant example of someone taking gamesmanship to an extreme level. I think if we're going to condone that, or say that it's part of the game, then it's a very sad day for Gaelic football.

"People said in the week after it that they maybe felt sorry for Aidan O'Shea for all the things that were being said about him and all the rest of it.

"Maybe one can feel sympathy for him but I wonder whether Aidan felt any sympathy for the Fermanagh players? Whom he, by doing what he did, took away, in an unfair way, whatever chance we had of winning the game.

"The referee of course has to be taken into the equation as well because everyone in the stadium had very serious doubts that it was a penalty and the referee, without consulting anyone, awarded it."

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