Jim McGuinness says there's no way Tipperary's Robbie Kiely should have been black-carded during Sunday's All-Ireland SFC semi-final loss to Mayo.

The biggest game of Kiely's life lasted just eight minutes when the influential Premier County centre back was black-carded by David Coldrick after making contact with Jason Doherty off the ball, denying Mayo a possible goal chance. McGuinness reckons the infringement didn't fall within the black card category:

"For me, the black card call was totally wrong. I felt he had his hand on Jason Doherty's back, an awkward tackle, at worst a pull on his jersey - which isn't a black card offence. As he fell, he and Doherty got tangled up - again, not a black card offence. I didn't see a deliberate drag down and I didn't see a deliberate trip. It was never a black card," he writes in The Irish Times.

"The black card, if you back to its origins, was brought in to prevent a player wrapping his arms around an opponent and dragging him to the ground. You know a cynical foul when you see it. A cynical foul is not a player having his hand on another fella's back as he's falling."

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