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Two Tooreen goals in a minute.  Upperchurch-Drombane 4-20 Tooreen 2-23.  Into added time.

FT Upperchurch-Drombane 4-20 Tooreen 2-24

Half time in extra time FT Upperchurch-Drombane 3-17 Tooreen 0-22. The 3rd goal right before the break could be key on.

Kildare v Dublin was a decent game all things considered with lads missing and time of year.

Dubs were putting boit to ball a bit more than other years.

Result Kildare: 1-22 Dublin: 1-13

[We hear of the Utd way and of the DNA of the club. Such pretentious talk.]

A lot here living in the past. Man Utd no longer have a standing in world football. The club is currently on a loop of hiring or firing Managers who come with promise and leave disillusioned.

We hear of the Utd way and of the DNA of the club. Such pretentious talk.

The Club is financially broken.
They have a plethora of players bought expensive, on high wages and player just running their contracts down.

There is no aura, no standard and no stability.

To make things worse you have Ferguson hanging around like a lord of the manor and his former players now high profile pundits with various multi media junkets remembering the good old days. It all loads unreal expectations.

Finally, the Glaziers don't care about the club being successful. They collect their dividend at the end of the year - and that's all they care about. They know the fans are emotionally tied and if someone steps away someone else will fill their place.

100% agree. I cringe when I hear Utd fans and past players on about this or running down other club's histories.

Fact of the matter is Utd have had 2 winning managers since WW1. If anything the Utd DNA is mediocrity. Two exceptional men bucked that trend but they had no "knowledge" of the club previously and had cut their teeth elsewhere.

Busby learned his trade playing at City, where he won the cup, and Liverpool. He was a visionary so Utd deserve credit in hiring a novice manager and giving him free reign to transform the club with some radical ideas.

Ferguson learned his trade in Scotland. Again, absolutely no knowledge of the Utd way. In fact he railed against the Utd way and DNA first few years and it almost beat him. It was his way or the highway.
 

Open to correction was the United way phrase not coined during Busby time with the attacking brand of football they played.

Upperchurch-Drombane 0-10
Tooreen 0-9. Strong finish to the half by Tooreen.

45 mins played Upperchurch-Drombane 1-12
Tooreen 0-18

60 mins played Upperchurch-Drombane 1-16
Tooreen 0-19

Three minutes added

FT Upperchurch-Drombane 1-17 Tooreen 0-20.  Some drama and amount of wasted opportunities for both late on. Some score to level it up.

Easkey unlucky with the red, the lad overplayed the injury for me which would have made me give a yellow lol!

Ref can give 5 seconds advantage so should have composed himself and allowed the play, that said he did probably take too many steps

Was no consistency with the ref, a similar challenge by Kilbrittain player moments later and he gave a yellow instead of red.

Was it similar? Was that the one he'd won the ball and came through a tackle heading the other away?

If not I missed it. Both yellow in my book if it's the one I'm thinking off

It was similar and yellow for both challenges for me also. 

Easkey unlucky with the red, the lad overplayed the injury for me which would have made me give a yellow lol!

Ref can give 5 seconds advantage so should have composed himself and allowed the play, that said he did probably take too many steps

Was no consistency with the ref, a similar challenge by Kilbrittain player moments later and he gave a yellow instead of red.

50 mins played  Easkey 0-15 Kilbrittain 0-14

After 60 minutes  Easkey 0-18 Kilbrittain 0-18

Three minutes added.

Result  Easkey 0-18 Kilbrittain 0-19. Fine effort by the Sligo men against the odds and finished the game with 13 players.

Junior and intermediate All-Ireland final tomorrow. From gaelic statsman

Deserved half time lead for the Sligo men. Easkey 0-11 Kilbrittain 0-10. Debatable call by the ref to not allow the Easkey goal and bring it back for a free.

0-12 each on 40 mins but a big moment with Easkey down to 14 men with their top scorer Kilcullen sent off.

Cup final semi final result Westmeath 5-10 Offaly 2-8

Kildare v Dublin on at 5pm.

Shield semi-finals

Carlow 2-15 Laois 3-9
Longford 1-11 Wicklow 3-16

Result in Tuam Galway 2-19 Leitrim 0-14. Harsh score line on Leitrim who led mid way through the 2nd half but a very strong finish by Galway scoring 1-10 to 0-1. Mathew Thompson who won't be available for Galway during the NFL due to overseas studies scored 2-6

As soon as Glasner is even rumoured with the man utd job it suddenly all goes to shit

The link as the next permanent Man United manager didn't make much sense when you consider Palace are behind United in the league table,his overall win percentage is 43% and before that 39%,47% with the two previous clubs he managed in Germany. 

FA Cup holders Crystal Palace currently losing their 3rd round tie 2-0 against Macclesfield F.C.
Who are 14th in National League N/S

Macclesfield win 2-1 and pitch celebration followed.

They started the 21/22 season in the 9th tier of the English pyramid, 3 promotions later and their first season in the National N/S.

It's the first time since 1909 that the FA Cup holders got knocked out by a non league team and at the time the non league team was Crystal Palace.

On today


All-Ireland club IHC final
Tooreen (Mayo) v Upperchurch-Drombane (Tipperary), Croke Park, 5.15pm - TG4

All-Ireland club JHC final
Easkey (Sligo) v Kilbrittain (Cork), Croke Park, 3.15pm - TG4

Odds

Tooreen  11/10
Upperchurch-Drombane 10/11
draw 17/2

Kilbrittain 1/7
Draw 14/1
Easkey 11/2