Id never seen a team coach pull up so closely to a dressing room door so the players literally stepped out the door onto the steps of the middle entrance.
Calm irish stewarding as well. As tooting says, some locals were a bit excitable and a gentle 'calm down now' seemed to do the trick
Yes it did. He missed 3 games but it was better than a full scale investigation.
We saw the players the next day having a walked and an ice cream from the local corner shop to their base. There was a lot of nervous humour from them. One of them mentioned the Longford Chairman and said he got...
I was there.... The game was taken by a 'junior' ref which would be County League level here. All other refs were at a conference.
Cardiff had played Longford earlier in the week and battered them 4-1 so the Longford players were 'bang up'
Early in the game, Longford had a Jamaica...