A Complete Explanation Of Everything

Four goals, a sending off and alot of slack marking.

Just back from the game in Tolka and it was memorable for a few things, the shocking first touch of the Shels lads for one. The inability to get the ball down and play it in midfield, mainly because of the Derry City workrate.

Great header for the equaliser for Crowe but Derry could have easily been three nil up in the first half thanks to some extraordinarily slack marking.

Other points of note, Tolka Park and Drumcondra are still inhospitable as ever and though the rain that the tail end of Hurricane Gordon threatened didn't come to pass, the covered two sides of the grounds were barely enough for what was a mammoth attendance by Eircom League standards.

The title initiative is now handed to Derry City but Shelbourne have points in the bag compared to Derry's games in hand, so we'll see.

Finished off with a slight pub crawl up the road with my Dad into the Cat & Cage (a shithole) and then onto Carthy's, which was feeling much better.

The game was also memorable for the fact that I got to show off my new philosophy football t-shirt.

"In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposition."

- Jean Paul Sartre, No. 10

Quite.