Longford Town v Atletico Madrid XI

That's why it's being billed as an Atletico Madrid XI though, nobody should be expecting the first team stars. It's the same when United or Liverpool send over their reserves, Bohs' game with Liverpool is being billed as a Liverpool XI and the Liverpool first team is in action the previous day and they're still selling thousands of tickets. It should still be an interesting game though and hopefully a decent enough crowd will come out to it. Good time for it as well, with it being a Bank Holiday.

We have had a lot of publicity about this, big fundraiser for us.

http://dundalkfc.com/images/AtleticoSplash.jpg

In fairness to our PRO, there has bein a few large posters that you couldnt miss on the outskirts of the town.. I heard today that we were very flukey in getting it..Athletico were tellin Dundalk that they were looking for another team to play. A member of their committee who used to be on ours Dessie Weir (1980s) got in contact with us to say that they wanted to play another team. Their fee was reasonable 2000euros as opposed to Leeds Utd who were lookin for 24000 euros to play. It would explain the short notice in the game being announced.

Town played very well tonight, very unlucky not to score on a number of occasions. Atletico had a few very nice footballers, hardly surprising they were all very technically gifted. Not a bad evenings entertainment I must say.

Agreed, worth the money I reckon. Both teams tried to play football which obviously you'd expect from Atletico!. Tom King and Michael Lee were excellent I must say, Shanahan was good too I'd like to see him signed if he hasn't already. We should have made a small bit of money out of it too if the reported low expenses are true so all in all it was a decent night.

Much of a crowd there?

At a guess somewhere around 600. Stand seemd a little less than half full.

Not bad sure. Considering crowds for the season would be hard to have seen any more.

Yeah it was alright. Very hard to get people to come out there at all these days. I'd say if there was a couple of more weeks publicity you might have seen another couple of hundred come out. As long as some bit of profit was made it was worthwhile. People enjoyed it too and it helped them forget about the previous night!.

Good enough game tonight, pity about the weather. I'm no good a crowd guessing but well over 1000 anyway. We lost 2-1.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Longfordian

Agreed, worth the money I reckon. Both teams tried to play football which obviously you'd expect from Atletico!. Tom King and Michael Lee were excellent I must say, Shanahan was good too I'd like to see him signed if he hasn't already. We should have made a small bit of money out of it too if the reported low expenses are true so all in all it was a decent night.

---

I was asking Brian McCarthy at half time about Aaron Shanahan and he said that he would be signing for us... Hes a way better goalie than O'Leary thats for sure..