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Fingal Wins

DUBLINER Gary O’Neill won the Ford FAI Cup for Sporting Fingal with a dramatic late winner against Sligo Rovers on Sunday -- but most of his family were away in the Big Apple as he celebrated a famous win.

O’Neill’s injury time winner capped an incredible week for the First Division side, which clinched promotion to the Premier on Monday night, then won the Cup six days later.

Considering Fingal are just two years in existence, the feat is all the more noteworthy after O’Neill and penalty expert Colm James had cancelled out Eoin Doyle’s 57th minute opener for Rovers.

The American based O’Neills were in Gary’s thoughts as he reflected on one of the most significant goals of his League of Ireland career.

“I swear to God, they will have some jolly-up for the whole week, like myself,” laughed O’Neill in the Fingal dressingroom.

“Me nanny, me grandad, me ma, me dad, friends, my auntie, my uncle ... ah, there’s a good few gone over. It’s been a great few months with the birth of my son and now promotion and the cup final and we will enjoy it.

“It didn’t look when we went behind midway through the second-half but we showed great character and we got there in the end.

“It’s been a long hard season. We got promoted by going the long way about it by winning the two-legged play-off against Bray but we got there in the end as well.

“Winning the cup and getting into Europe is a bonus.”

Fingal manager Liam Buckley was delighted with the win and said, “This is just topping it all off to get a result today. On a personal level I was just chuffed to be in the final. It was great.

“But it is not about me. It is about the players and I am chuffed for them. They have worked hard over the last few weeks.” 

 

McPhail’s Cancer

CARDIFF City’s Irish midfielder Stephen McPhail has been diagnosed with cancer and is set to undergo three weeks of chemotherapy.

Dublin-born McPhail, now 29, has been told by doctors that he has stage one malt lymphoma but specialists believe he will be fit enough to return to football in January.

 

Soccer Shorts

LEAGUE of Ireland title winner Pat Fenlon has been named Philips Manager of the Month for October after guiding his club to a second successive championship . . .

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