A very busy month of
July has been in place for the Shamrock Rovers organization, one of them having
to deal with a bittersweet elimination in the UEFA Europa League and suddenly
having Pat Fenlon step down from his role of team Manager.
The Hoops suddenly
had to appoint Stephen Bradley in the condition of interim for the remainder of
the campaign. Still for the Rovers new man at its helm, it was business as usual
and taking his first challenge in the campaign with the always-contested Dublin
Derby, hosted by its squad in Tallaght.
Here we had a
resurgent Bohemian FC squad looking to
move up in the league table as
well avenge the loss they encounter back in April at home in Dalymont to 4-0
goal fest courtesy of their bitter rivals the Hoops. As this campaign, the Rovers are seeing a sort
of dominance over their cross Dublin foes who in a four year span the Gypsies
had the upper hand in these competitions.
Not today, as the
Rovers having the upper hand by playing as locals, they were ready to erase
that dry spell against their cross-town foes and they were looking forward to
start adding points in this troubled campaign of theirs.
Still these Derbies
are somehow a hand full to the officiating referee, by seeing and stopping all
sorts of fireworks between both of these squads players, as the passion in this
games is one very visible one in the field as well its stands.
With a match where the
Bohs lost, a player in the 23rd minute after the visiting Gypsies
had the momentum going when keeper Delaney stopped a penal cold in
the early part of the match to deny the Rovers Brandon Miele’s the lead. As the
visiting Bohemians already had an early goal in the board courtesy of Kurtis
Byrne beautiful shoot.
The Bohs had a certain
dominance of the match despite the red card on Keith Buckley in the 20th
minute that left the Phibsboro side with just ten men and the moves from Boss Keith
long were not sufficient to stop the locals goal fest.
As the Local Rovers
goal fest started, eight minutes later in the match when Dean Clarke opened the
scores and four minutes pass when Gary Shaw scored the go-ahead goal pass the Bohs
keeper and his defender for the 2-1 score as the local Rovers had the lead at
halftime.
The Rovers in the second
half saw their efforts paid off when all match long controlled the ball and the
actions, here came a play with substitute Sean Boyd living the hype with just
minutes in the game seals the deal and the winning goal for the final 3-1
score.
Still for the teenage
sensation, his acts netted him a yellow after his immature prank in celebrating
in front of the Boh fans, who did not hesitate to show their frustration by
pelting him with plastic water bottles into the field.
At the end, the match
went on and showing off a clear dominance of the Shamrock Boys over their cross-town
foes the Bohemians, and the visiting Gypsies had one less men in the field
their hardened stance prevented their posts to fall with a barrage of goals
from the Hoops.
This isn’t over as both
of these squad once again will meet but now at Dalymont Park in Phibsboro the
home of the Bohemians and will see if these as locals can pull at least one
match in this always disputed and historic of Derbies.
Today’s match puts
the Shamrock Rovers in the winning column and with a nine point advantage over their
closest chaser in Galway United, their fourth place spots so far enables them
to be within the European spots.
For now, the role of
Stephen Bradley at the helm of the Tallaght Boys destinies can very well extend
to the end of this campaign and with the role he plays and delivers some needed
shields to this historic club, maybe the Hoops have their new Manager.
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