Old Bawn go goal-crazy in league clash

A CRUEL day on the field for Dublin City FC when they entertained Old Bawn FC in Corkagh Park, in the UCFL Division 3B section, and ended up shipping 10 goals, in a totally one sided affair from the 20th minute of this game reports John Mooney.

It’s fair to say that the Clondalkin based outfit have been struggling all season and have been finding results hard to come by, and the Bawn were in no mood to give them any kind of mercy.

The home side started with the strong wind at their back and to be honest it took the visitors a bit of time to adjust, but when they did it was always going to end with an away win.

Their opener arrived in the 20th minute and it was a beauty as Lewis Talbot cut in from the left hand side and guided the ball beyond the reach of keeper Myles Geraghty, who was standing in between the sticks for the day.

Geraghty might have preferred to have stayed at home as on 30 minutes it was 2-0, when Kyle Coady netted the first of his hat-trick when he was on hand to guide home a Mikey Lovett centre, and before the home side had time to recover it was 3-0 when Coady slotted home a Aaron Breslin pass.

To be honest it could have been more, so with the wind at their backs in the second half you knew that the Bawn would add to their tally and, within three minutes, they did as Coady completed his tat-trick when latching on to another Lovett pass.

Old Bawn FC’s Mikey Lovett and Dublin City FC’s Ryan Donnelly battle for possession Photos by John Mooney

Talbot then missed a penalty before this game went completely pear shaped for the hosts, as they started to concede more goals with Ryan Callery, two, Gary Murphy, Grant Perry, Stephen Wright and Lovett all adding to their misery.

Now being beaten is one thing and it doesn’t help when you have two players shown their marching orders, so it all made for a very dark day for the home side.

It’s been a good couple of weeks for Old bawn as they picked all points on offer and are now in contention for the runner up slot in this division, as they have a game in hand over second placed Stamullen FC and only three points adrift.

Dublin City FC have been struggling all season

DUBLIN CITY FC: Myles Geraghty, David Snee, Sean Lunney, Ryan Donnelly, Craig McDermott, Jordan Walsh, Ross Kavanagh, Daoud Boulis, Mohamed Ounouahi, Hamza Rahoui, Killian Johnstone, Kian Waldron, Chris Boggans.

OLD BAWN FC: Billy Prout, Matt Johansonn, Kyle Coady, Mikey Lovett, Dylan O’Brien, AJ Halpin, Ryan Callery, Nathan Bailey, Gary Murphy, Chris Delaney, Carl Corbett,,Grant Perry, Ross Gerathy, Lewis Talbot, Josh Lyons, Aaron Breslin, Kyle Deegan, Aaron Layton, Stephen Wright.