From: spain@galvia.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Limerick qualify for Top 6
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:09:53 GMT
Reply-To: spain@galvia.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

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Cork City                0-1    Limerick                 

This was Limerick's most important game for eleven years.  It was win or bust
and Limerick pulled off a shock win.  The tension before the game was very
evident.  Cork needed the points to go top of the league.  Limerick needed
2 points to make the top 6 and ensure Noel King's side would not scatter
to the 4 winds.  Ken DeMange may yet join Derry but Peter Mumby's transfer to 
Pats is surely off.

Cork won the toss and chose to play against the strong wind in the first half.
Limerick started better but only threatened from set pieces.  4 free kicks
from just outside the penalty area were wasted in the first 30 minutes.  As
the first half wore on Cork took control but neither goal was threatened in a 
tense first half.  Cork played towards the home end in the second half and
apparently score most of their goals at that end of the pitch.  They seized
the initiative and dominated the early part of the second half.  Limerick still
threatened on breaks.  Both sides had to win but for the first hour neither
side really looked like doing that.  Just after the hour Limerick won a free
kick inside the Cork half.  The ball was played through to Peter Mumby who
evaded one challenge before sending a teasing ball into the box.  It just 
evaded a Cork defender and Howie King met it beautifully to steer it past
Harrington.  This was the prelude for mass celebration among the Limerick
contingent.  The last 30 minutes were the longest I've endured since 
Stuttgart.  Cork seemed certain to equalise late on when the ball was chipped
over John Grace and Pat Morley was denied from 2 yards by a magnificent 
clearance by Ray Duffy.  A goal at that stage would have been a travesty of
justice.  Limerick held on and the final whistle came as a great relief.

Bohemians                1-1    Shelbourne               

Bohs go back on top thanks to this draw but they will consider it a point 
dropped.  Tommy Fitzgerald gave Bohs a first half lead but Gary Haylock 
equalised midway through the second half.  Shels finished the game with 10 men
as Gary Howlett was sent off but they clung on for a vital point.

This is the League Table from IRELAND after 22 rounds of matches

    Team Name              P    W    D    L    GF   GA   PF   PA
Bohemians                  22   10   10   2    37   12   30   14
Cork City                  22   12   5    5    36   25   29   15
Derry City                 22   9    10   3    17   12   28   16
Shelbourne                 22   10   7    5    42   24   27   17
Dundalk                    22   8    10   4    29   24   26   18
Limerick                   22   6    11   5    24   18   23   21
St. Patricks Athletic      22   5    13   4    19   17   23   21
Shamrock Rovers            22   6    6    10   33   27   18   26
Drogheda United            22   3    11   8    20   32   17   27
Sligo Rovers               22   4    9    9    10   25   17   27
Bray Wanderers             22   2    9    11   13   35   13   31
Waterford                  22   5    3    14   22   51   13   31


       Gary Spain, DEC, Galway, Ireland   - spain@galvia.enet.dec.com

  On being a football fan: "I am aware of the downside to this wonderful 
  facility that men have: they become repressed, they fail in their 
  relationships with women,their conversation is trivial and boorish, they 
  find themselves unable to express their emotional needs, they cannot relate
  to their children, and die lonely and miserable. But you know, what the hell?"
								   Nick Hornby