We won. A home victory, the first since before the mid season break. It wasn’t great, in fact it was a dire game but Ciaran Martyn’s rocket finish did the damage. Pats owned the ball for most of the game and with us down to ten men for most of the game it was a great three points.
If, and I am employing the relentless optimism of the football fan here, we win our game in hand then we will only be four points behind Shamrock Rovers, with a decent chunk of the season left. There may not be anything in the cups for us but it is definitely game on in terms of the League placings.
It was a worryingly small crowd at the Brandywell but there was an “old school” atmosphere as the renditions of “Red and White Army” from the New Stand when the goal went in. The poor night and our recent form wouldn’t have encouraged many neutrals along but it is definitely something we need to address for the rest of the season.
Clive Delaney picked up his third red of the season, once again for stupidity. The round of applause he got as he was leaving the pitch was cringeworthy. It seems to be the default reaction now when a player is sent off that the player is clapped off, no matter how guilty. I hope Delaney gets a massive fine for management as he will be banned for ages now anyway.
Gerard Doherty once again has to get praise for keeping us in the game with a couple of smart saves which Farren missed a sitter in the first half. It was a rearguard action when we went down to ten and I thought Eddie and Ger O’Brien were outstanding for Derry.
However you just struggled to see where the goal was coming from but there was a flash of the 2006 Ciaran Martyn as he arrived late and absolutely hammered it home to grab all three points.
As we were leaving the ground we were treated to Jeff Kenna lambasting his side in the dressing room. Ha. Roll on Bray.
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