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Estar
16/06/2003, 4:56 PM
Is it true no gardai play on the team?:eek:

At least you won't be brought to the cop shop if you put in a bad tackle;)

Estar
16/06/2003, 5:19 PM
Fluid County caught cold by a controversial goal

Garda 1 Kildare County 0

THE new season got under way for the U-21s before a large crowd away to Garda.


Playing attractive free-flowing football Kildare began brightly at sunny Westmanstown and were very unlucky not to be a few goals ahead at half-time. Only a combination of good goalkeeping and some poor finishing prevented them taking the lead their neat football deserved.


Good link-up play between strikers Anthony Nolan and Robbie Hibbitt carved open the Garda defence almost at will but unfortunately their finishing was not on the same par.


The loss through injury at half-time of both Willie Pender and Shane Darcy took some of the steam out of the Kildare attacks but gradually they began to control the game again only to be thwarted by some superb goalkeeping by man-of the-match Warren Fee in the Garda goal.


Garda brought on giant striker Paud Heavey in the 70th minute and adopted a long ball game to counter the now constant pressure on their goal.


It was from one of these long balls in the 75th minute that Heavey headed on to David Owen who looked well offside as he controlled the ball and scored through the legs of Tadgh Murphy in the Kildare for what proved to be the only score of the game.


County pressed hard for the remainder of the game but if anything Garda now looked the more likely to score on the break and Murphy was called into action twice late in the game to prevent Garda adding to their solitary goal.


Kildare will have come away from this match disappointed at losing all three points but surely will not play this well often and emerge pointless.


Kildare County: Tadgh Murphy, David Lane, Wayne Sheridan, Sean Nolan, Gareth Byrne (Killian Doyle 60), Cathal O’Connor, Steven Sheridan, William Pender (Shaun Byrne HT), Anthony Nolan (Jason Carey 60), Shane Darcy (Karl Byrne HT).