Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final
Fermanagh v Down
Saturday, Brewster Park, Enniskillen, 4pm – Live on BBC2 from 3.45pm
By Peter McGrath Junior
The few good weeks of weather we had almost made it feel like summer, and championship football is already underway.
As temperatures ease back down this week, the nip of spring can still be felt and the yearning for a summer championship returns.
Nevertheless, it is in whatever weather Sunday provides that Down must deliver in Brewster Park.
Down are unlikely to prevail in the Ulster Championship this year. In Donegal, Armagh, and Tyrone, there are three genuine All-Ireland contenders in the province, but that won’t lessen the desire to get a crack at the winners of Monaghan/Donegal in a semi-final.
The last Ulster Championship meeting of Fermanagh and Down was in 2020. In a championship delayed by Covid, the sides met in Brewster Park on November 8. Down led by a point (0-7 to 0-6) at half-time but went on to run out convincing winners, 1-15 to 0-11.
Both squads have evolved massively since, with only one of each side’s scorers from that game still on the squads at present — Darragh McGurn for Fermanagh and Caolan Mooney for Down.
Read the full preview in the current issue of the Mourne Observer.
