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 It was mentioned in the Guardian football weekly podcast that E Ferguson could still switch to England through his Grandmother I think. From Wikipedia "in September 2020, the 70th edition of the FIFA Congress approved a rule change that now allows players to switch if they have played no more than three competitive matches at senior level prior to them turning 21 including no appearances in FIFA World Cup finals matches or continental finals (e.g. the UEFA European Championship). However, appearing in a tournament qualifier would not". He has 3 competitive caps (qualifiers) so could switch.

The referee booked both players as they were both involved in wrestling each other to the ground in the goalmouth. The referee consulted his umpires and the linesman before issuing the yellows and I would presume this was to check what they had seen and to confirm no red card offences such as striking had taken place. Taken on its own merit for this individual incident the two bookings looked to be the correct decision.

From what I saw both players were at it throughout the match, and it wasn't possible to tell who started anything. Whilst you would say the defender is most likely to start the holding, a forward may also do so to get the defender involved aso they can win an easy free in front of the posts or get the opponent booked or sent off. Particularly if the ball into the full forward was unlikely to reach them. I thought Lynch's could have benefited from the situation better by getting the ball into the full forward more often drawing attention to the potential fouls and then picking up frees.

It was clear from early on that the referee was going to let things go and both teams seemed to take advantage of this without stepping over the line. In a tight game the referee's decisions, or in this case lack of decisions can always be queried. But Lynch's loss was more down to not taking as much advantage of the conditions in the second half especially since their goals had put them in a good position at half time.

Good luck to Derry players and management in today's final. They have the individual quality and teamwork on the field to win this.

Bru House in Fairview showed last years semi final if over that direction form Croke Park.

Hello, would it be likely to get tickets for August match at Celtic Park v St Johnstone wanted to take 2 children and wife to first match but been a long time since I was over so have no idea about availability. Thanks.

Try one adult one juvenile had to use 2 ticketmaster accounts but got 2+2 in same section eventually.