west utd beat castlerea celtic in sudden death penalties. both missed a pen each out of 5.
terrible way for castlerea celtic to go out, quite unlucky i beleive too.
got this from a mate who was at the match watching:
"Went to last 16 game of the FAI junior cup yesterday. Castlerea did well gettting there from over 600 teams at the start and they played West Utd from Galway in Shiven. West were the greatest shams I have ever come across. There fans outnumbered us about 3 or 4 to 1 and they were pure tinkers looking for fights non stop. It was a pretty dirty game as teh West players followed through on every tackle and loads of stuff off the ball. They went 1 up after a long throw into the box missed everyone adn one of there players volleyed home. Jimmy Mannion equalised with a good finish. About 10 minutes before half time they scored direct from a corner to go 2 -1 up.
Just before half time Castlerea got a corner. Ball came in and Jim went up with their goalie and beat him too it but the ball was cleared. Jim hit the deck and one of their players stamped on his head. Naturally he reacted and hit your man. Then it all kicked off and a big brawl with about 20 involved!! 3 were sent off. Jim, their goalie and the fellow who stamped on Jim. When they were all leaving the pitch. A good few rows broke out between fans and it was chaos!
In fairness West played well second half with 9 men but Castlerea really missed JIm. They had no one to put their foot on it and control things. Wests sub goalie was cat but Castlerea couldn't get anything on target. Late in 2nd half Mark made a burst past his man and was hacked down and the fella got booked. It was his 2nd yellow but the ref never spotted it and he wasn't sent off. Late on Castlerea equalised. Conor MAc came of the bench and scored a good header, beating their man to the ball. It went to extra time. Both teams had chances and their goalie somehow pulled off a great save from Conor.
Into penalties. Dara saved their first penalty from their goalie. Ronan missed Castlerea's second to even things up which was tough on him as he has been Castlereas best player all season. Finished 4 apiece and into sudden death. Unfortunately Ross missed the decisive penalty and Castlerea were out. Some entertainment!! It was funny though. A lot of the Castlerea hard men were keeping quiet at the match when faced with these scumbags. xxxx was the only one that didn't give a sh1t and was battering them. That was more due to lack of intelligance than anything else"
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