Tuesday, May 31, 2016

For Extratime.ie: Doherty frustrated to come away with nothing

While the spectators inside Tolka Park on Sunday afternoon will have left – for better or worse depending on which side they support – thoroughly entertained following an incredible seven goal thriller, for Shelbourne boss Kevin Doherty there was only one thing on his mind.

"Bobby O'Reilly hitting the post, the inside of the post, that could have been 4-4..."

His Shelbourne side had just ended up on the wrong side of a 4-3 defeat to runaway First Division leaders Limerick in a game which ended with ten minutes of madness.

For Doherty, his annoyance at the manner in which his side conceded the goals and his inability to comprehend some of the refereeing decisions on the day are merely seeds for a deeper frustration sown over a period of weeks, not 90 crazy minutes: hard work and good performances reaping little or no reward.

"Limerick would nearly have been like a bonus point for us had we have got something, that's why I'm just really frustrated at the moment, but we can't make the mistakes that we made," Doherty told Extratime.ie after the game.


Continue reading my interview with Kevin Doherty on Extratime.ie.

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