The Waterford hurlers face a nervous wait over the next 48 hours to see if Austin Gleeson, the Hurler of the Year, will be issued with a suspension before next month’s All-Ireland final. Gleeson was the inspiration behind Waterford’s 4-19 to 0-20 semi-final win over Cork yesterday but may miss the final against Galway, after he pulled the helmet off Luke Meade, the Cork forward, in an 18th-minute incident. “I always speak candidly but genuinely I didn’t see what happened,” Derek McGrath, the Waterford manager, said. “So I can’t comment on it.”A one-match ban is the sanction for such an offence, as Waterford have discovered twice this season, firstly when Stephen Bennett, and more recently when Tadhg de Búrca, received suspensions. Accordingly De Búrca…

Source: The Times August 14, 2017 00:11 UTC