Utd hope to sign off a strange week by toppling Treaty men

GALWAY United will go looking for their first win of the season on the pitch this Friday when they welcome the league’s newest club, Treaty United, to Eamonn Deacy Park (7.45pm), having apparently opened their account in the ‘W’ column last Friday against the league’s second newest club without kicking a ball either in anger or pleasure.

United are expected to be awarded the three points for last Friday’s scheduled game against Cabinteely in Dublin, a tie which was called off by the the home side just over two hours before kick-off due to a case of Covid-19 in their camp.

The travelling United party had already made its way to Dublin – in two buses in order to comply with social distancing – and had just finished their prematch meal and were about to depart their stop-off point, a hotel in Leopardstown, when word came through that the game was off.

It subsequently emerged that there were rumours flying around Dublin all week that the game was likely to be called off as, it was claimed, a number of players at Cabinteely were deemed close contacts of a confirmed Covid-19 case at the club.

Some of those rumours had travelled down the M6 to reach Galway, but United prepared as normal for the game, and were understandably hugely frustrated at having gone to the expense and effort to travel to Dublin in two separate groups, only to have a game that was apparently under threat for much of the week called off at such a late stage

“Following discussions with the HSE around a positive Covid-19 case at the club, Cabinteely FC have informed the League of Ireland that they are unable to field a team for the scheduled SSE Airtricity First Division fixture against Galway United,” read a statement issued by the FAI at 5.41pm last Friday.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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