UEFA appoint officials for Cork and Longford games

**A face** · 05/07/2005, 10:41 PM

UEFA appoint officials for Cork and Longford games

UEFA has appointed the match officials for Cork City and Longford Town's upcoming UEFA Cup First Qualifying Round, First Leg fixtures.

An all-Finnish team will take charge of Cork City's match away to FK Ekranas in Lithuania on Thursday July 14th while Slovakian officials will be in charge at Flancare Park the same night. Andorran officials have been appointed to the return leg in Wales on July 28th. The match officials for Cork City's home leg will be announced shortly.

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**Copa Mundial** · 06/07/2005, 9:06 AM

Irish FIFA Officials have also received appointments in the upcoming UEFA ands FIFA competitions.
Dave Mckeon is off to Latvia(Metalurgs) for a UEFA Cup game
Anthony Buttimer is going to Andorra for an Inter-toto cup game
Ian Stokes heads to Switzerland this weekend for an Inter-toto game in Berne.He has also received a prestigious appointment from FIFA to a World Cup Qualifier in Belgium in september.

**Peadar** · 06/07/2005, 9:10 AM

Originally Posted by Copa Mundial

Irish FIFA Officials have also received appointments in the upcoming UEFA ands FIFA competitions.

Nothing for Alan Kelly?
Hope the protests of the Galway United fans haven't harmed his prospects.

**Wiseguy** · 06/07/2005, 9:27 AM

Hopefully these refs are better than the idiots we have.I think Alan Kelly is staring in a porn movie so he was unavailable at such short notice.

**town73** · 06/07/2005, 10:33 AM

the fat fooker that took charge of our away game in Liechtenstein was a right bstrd. Complete homer from Georgia who gave everthing to vaduz.

Hopefully these guys are a bit better.

**hoops1** · 06/07/2005, 10:49 AM

good luck to cork city in europe
with a bit of luck longford get whopped and go on a very long bad run
so there sunshine supportes can go back to the gaa or whatever they do.
was down there a many times before they got promotion
hardly a longford fan in sight we counted 20 people in the ground!

**superfrank** · 06/07/2005, 12:14 PM

Just hope they're not like the ones at the Bohs match. The linesman's FIFA badge fell off his shirt!

**EnDai** · 06/07/2005, 1:02 PM

Roflcoptor!

**Sonic** · 06/07/2005, 1:03 PM

Originally Posted by Cop on

Why the bitterness ??

i think the hoop in the name tells you that

**Wiseguy** · 06/07/2005, 1:23 PM

He's probably just dizzy and confused from looking up from the bottom of the league.This can happen when you have no home,when you're not wanted anywhere and other people force you to disgrace the name of your club and supporters.How many Rovers fans will be left next season when they play 1st division football.

**hoops1** · 06/07/2005, 1:38 PM

we will still be supporting rovers division 1 or not
where were you when Longford were in the 1st Division no where to be
seen
fairweather fans!

**Wiseguy** · 06/07/2005, 3:19 PM

I froze my nuts off with the 20 or so others in both Abbeycartron and Mullollogher so i don't consider myself a bandwagoner.The thing about LTFC is that it is a huge success story from the few mere souls and kip of a ground to what we have now.Our club is slowly but surely building it's self up season by season while the mighty Rovers fall.I'm not gloating i'm just stating the facts.Do you really think that thousands of Rovers fans are going to turn out to watch Rovers play the likes of Kilkenny or Monaghan.I for one don't.I know most of our fan base is made up of bandwagoners but so is a lot of clubs.We can bring thousands to Landsdowne but feck all make the trek to Flancare.Cork can have 6,000 in the cross one weekend and 3,000 the next.The same goes for all clubs.The fair weather fans turn up for the so called big games it's just the way it is.I just think that a SRFC fan coming on here and having a go at LTFC is a bit rich considering the state your club is in.Some Cork fans have been getting on my tits lately but whether i like them or the club is irrelevent.I will still cheer for them in Europe as they are representing our league.I'm not that petty to allow my feelings towards a club cloud the bigger issue and what is the best for the EL.

**Slash/ED** · 06/07/2005, 3:48 PM

Is Olly Byrne not doing the Cork game, no?

**Copa Mundial** · 06/07/2005, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

Nothing for Alan Kelly?
Hope the protests of the Galway United fans haven't harmed his prospects.

I think Kelly,s recent promotion within UEFA will see him come into the later rounds,much the same as the bigger clubs.

Rumour has it,he was seen house hunting in Galway recently

**Slash/ED** · 06/07/2005, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Copa Mundial

I think Kelly,s recent promotion within UEFA will see him come into the later rounds,much the same as the bigger clubs

Jesus christ....

You mean that clown is going to be reffing some of the bigger matches in the competition? Europes elite beware...

Though I suppose if Cork ever qualify he's handy for the odd penalty, eh?

**Sheridan** · 06/07/2005, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Copa Mundial

Dave Mckeon is off to Latvia(Metalurgs) for a UEFA Cup game
Anthony Buttimer is going to Andorra for an Inter-toto cup game

How much do they want to keep him?

Saw McKeon handle an Ireland-Slovenia underage international and he called the game very well, perhaps because of the language barrier and consequent lack of verbals.