Bray Wanderers 1 Waterford FC 4 Matt Keane Following victories over Wexford and Athlone Town, Waterford FC made it a hat-trick of wins on Friday when they easily defeated Bray Wanderers in the Carlisle Grounds. Playing under the guidance of Gary Hunt and David Breen for the third time since the...
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FAI Centenary Junior Cup Semi-Final – Villa book final place in style
FAI Centenary Junior Cup Semi-Final – Villa book final place in style
Villa 4 Salthill Devon 1 Matt Keane The Villa will play Pike Rovers of Limerick on Sunday, May 22nd in the FAI Junior Cup final following this excellent victory over Salthill Devon in Ozier Park on Sunday afternoon. The game was turned on its head after only four minutes when the Salthill Devon goalkeeper...
Waterford come good in Wexford
Waterford come good in Wexford
Wexford FC 0 Waterford FC 2 Matt Keane Two goals, a clean sheet and three points secured. That was the outcome from a Waterford point of view in Ferrycarrig Park on Friday night last. Playing their first game since the departure of manager Ian Morris, the Blues just simply had to win this game following the...
Superb De La Salle crowned Munster champions
Superb De La Salle crowned Munster champions
De La Salle 7 St Francis (Rochestown, Cork) 2 Matt Keane The extraordinary run of success by the De La Salle teams continued in Cahir Park last week. Seven days previously the Under 19 side won their Munster title and following this latest victory by the Under 17 side it means De La Salle have now got two...
Blues blow another Munster Derby in disappointing fashion
Blues blow another Munster Derby in disappointing fashion
Treaty United 2 Waterford FC 1 Matt Keane After losing to Cork City in Turners Cross two weeks previously Waterford FC travelled to the Markets Field on Friday last to play Treaty United in another Munster Derby encounter. The performance in Cork was bitterly disappointing and everyone involved with Waterford...
League of Ireland First Division – Sluggish Blues grind out vital win
League of Ireland First Division – Sluggish Blues grind out vital win
Waterford FC 2 Wexford FC 1 Matt Keane This was a game that will not live in the memory. From a Waterford point of view it was another vital victory which moved them three points clear at the top of the league table but from a performance point of view it was sluggish, especially in the second half. It was...
Waterford Premier League – Title chasing Ferrybank crush Tangerines
Waterford Premier League – Title chasing Ferrybank crush Tangerines
Ferrybank 5 Southend United 0 Matt Keane Ferrybank got back into the title race on Friday night at the Village Grounds in Abbeylands by defeating struggling Southend United. Two goals inside the opening ten minutes put the hosts in the driving seat and they never looked in any real danger during the remainder of the...
Pre-season friendly – Easy five goal victory for Waterford FC
Pre-season friendly – Easy five goal victory for Waterford FC
Cobh Ramblers 0 Waterford FC 5 Matt Keane Waterford FC opened up their pre-season games in the Stephen Ireland Astrfo Turf pitch in Cobh on Saturday last and they recorded a facile five nil victory. Phoenix Patterson (24), Trialist A (45), Owen Oseni (51), Junior Quitirna (84), and Owen Oseni (90) were the...
Fireworks on and off the field as Blues drop to ninth
Fireworks on and off the field as Blues drop to ninth
Waterford FC 1 Shamrock Rovers 3 Matt Keane Waterford’s failure to deal with set-pieces cost them dearly at the RSC on Friday night in front of an attendance of almost 3000. They were undone by a...
WSFL Under 13 C League: DLS maintain their lead at the top
WSFL Under 13 C League: DLS maintain their lead at the top
De La Salle 5 Mooncoin Celtic 2 Matt Keane Two teams who are battling it out for the league title met in Williamstown on Thursday evening. De La Salle had a total of nine points from their opening four games while Mooncoin Celtic had banked seven points, but they had played only three games. This was always going to...
Piltown crush Bohs with quickfire goals
Piltown crush Bohs with quickfire goals
WSFL Under 15 A League Bohemians 0 Piltown 3 Matt Keane Live football returned to Waterford on Tuesday last as the 2020-21 Waterford Schoolboy League season resumed after the eight-month closure due to Covid-19. The 2021-22 season will start in September. The long break certainly did not have any ill effect on the...
Dixie Hale – A Majestic Player For The Ages
Dixie Hale – A Majestic Player For The Ages
Matt Keane Many people who love football were saddened on Wednesday last when the news broke that Richard Dixie Hale had lost his fight for life in his adopted home of Swansea. Born in Waterford on the 29th of May, 1935 – the Ard na Greine man was one of the four Hale brothers who made their mark in football...
