On Monday, GAA referee Simon Brady told RTE's Sean O'Rourke that he was more or less happy to let the GAA police the incident that had left him unconscious for five minutes on Friday night. San Francisco police are taking a different approach to 'off the ball' incidents. According San Francisco Weekly, cops in the Bay Area have now began an investigation into the incident.
"There's an investigation but there's no arrest and nothing further," police spokesperson Albie Esparza told the newspaper.
The identity of the man involved in the incident has been given over to police as police search for eyewitnesses to the incident.
Terence Tracey passed doubt on the chance of finding eyewitnesses.
"I was playing in the game and did not see the incident, it was off the ball. ... To my knowledge you will not get an eyewitness," he told SF Weekly.
McGovern's team was playing Celt's, one of San Francisco's newest teams and a club composed mostly of Americans.
