Champions Shelbourne had a loyal fan with the right connections to thank – and a Derry City side unable to defend – as they sauntered to success as the League of Ireland resumed.
The second half of this game was delayed by almost an hour due to a power outage at Tolka just moments after the half-time whistle – the timing remarkable, mere days after the country finally came out of one of the worst losses of electricity due to a storm in its history.
Most, perhaps all of the sold-out Tolka crowd, had an image of Damien Duff in a darkened room: what must he have been thinking at the break? A very likely win against a big team might have been rendered obsolete.
Instead, as they head…