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17th July 2018
02:22pm BST

Then came the money shot. Their left half back found himself in a few yards of space and he only had one thing on his mind. Cillian Kiely was roaring for it down the other end of the pitch, and with a defence-splitting, inch perfect cross-field zipper, the number 7 pinged it over to him.
It didn't need to be perfect. Kiely had space and he had a couple of inches on his man. He plucked the sliotar with his fingers and left the last Banagher man back for dust.
He had only the goalie to beat now. The odds were in Kiely's favour. He had the momentum, he had the time, it looked like he was going to bury it.
As it turned out, he didn't even get a chance to eye up the goals.
A goalkeeper's creed is to guard their goals like their life depends on it, and the Offaly man wasn't letting anything past him.
Like Schumacher on Battiston in 82, the bucking Banagher bronco took a run at Kiely, he took a jump at him, and he nearly took his head off.
You can watch the goalies' kung-fu style blocking tactics here from 16 seconds.
Both men were red carded. Even though Kiely did retaliate, you'd nearly tell the ref in that instance to give the man free reign to do whatever the hell he wanted in response.
Kilcormac missed the penalty, Rynagh's went on to win. Sometimes there is just no justice in this world.Explore more on these topics: