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Article: BREFFNI BLUES IN THE PINK.
- Article from:
- Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2009
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FERMANAGH discovered to their cost just how heavy the favourites(tm) burden can prove in the Ulster senior football championship when they were gunned down by a fired-up, resilient Cavan side at Kingspan Breffni Park last night.
If the Ernemen rightfully lapped up the plaudits following their preliminary round win over Down, then today they find themselves laden with brickbats following their most inept championship performance for some time.
Tactically naive, especially in the first-half and devoid of any real thrust after the break, Malachy O(tm)Rourke(tm)s side found their opponents(tm) stifling marking much too claustrophobic.
As a unit, ...