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Who was the top scorer in the 2019 Dr McKenna Cup final?  
Who was the top scorer in the 2019 Dr McKenna Cup final?   Who was the top scorer in the 2019 Dr McKenna Cup final?  

Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon is 37 today.

BACK IN THE DAY

December 31 2009: By Cahair O’Kane

CROSSMAGLEN will begin the inaugural Ulster U21 Club Football Championship next month when they take on the Fermanagh champions.

Belcoo and Tempo are scheduled to meet in the Erne county final and the winners will face the Armagh champions after last night’s draw at the home of the competition sponsors, the Elk near Toome. There wereahost of big names packed into the venue, with Liam Bradley, Mickey Moran and new Omagh manager Paddy Crozier in attendance.

The draw for the first Paddy McLarnon Cup was made by the late former Creggan and South West Antrim Board chairman’s wife Josephine, along with club chairman Tony McCollum, Antrim vice-chairman Jim Murray and Ulster Council PRO Michael Hasson.

Antrim champions and hosts Creggan will take on either Burren or Longstone from Down, who will meet in one of the four as yet undecided county finals. Creggan claimed the Antrim title with a thilling 0-13 to 1-9 win over then holders Cargin in May.

SPORT BIRTHDAYS
  • Alex Ferguson

    soccer

    hugely successful former Manchester United manager, born 1941.

  • Kenny Roberts

    motorcycling

    first American to win 500cc world title in 1978, born 1951.

  • Jean-Pierre Rives

    rugby union

    former France flanker, born 1952.

  • Steve Bruce

    soccer

    former Manchester United defender, currently manager of Newcastle, born 1960.

  • Tony Dorigo

    soccer

    Australia-born former England left-back, born 1965.

  • Matthew Hoggard

    cricket

    former England, Yorkshire and Leicestershire bowler, born 1976.

  • Richie McCaw

    rugby union

    former New Zealand captain who led the team to 2011 and 2015 World Cup glory, born 1980.

  • Craig Gordon

    soccer

    Celtic and Scotland goalkeeper, born 1982.

  • Gabby Douglas

    gymnastics

    double Olympic gold medallist at London 2012, born 1995.

ON THIS DAY IN SPORT
  • 1929

    Former Surrey and England captain Peter May was born. He scored more than 4,500 Test runs and 27,592 in his 13-year first-class career. May later went on to become chairman of the England selectors and an ICC match referee. He died of a brain tumour four days before his 65th birthday.

  • 1948

    Speed ace Malcolm Campbell died, aged 63. Twenty one years earlier, Campbell set a new land speed record of 174.88 miles per hour in his famous Bluebird at Pendine Sands, Wales. He also went on to set the water speed record in September 1935, 304.331mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300mph.

  • 2000

    Tottenham and England defender Sol Campbell dismissed speculation about his future by pledging his loyalty to the club. Seven months later he signed for Arsenal, Spurs' most bitter rivals.

  • 2011

    British tennis number one Andy Murray appointed Ivan Lendl as his full-time coach.

  • 2014

    Wigan chairman Dave Whelan was banned for six weeks from all football-related activities for comments he made about Jewish and Chinese people.

QUICK QUIZ
  • Which Munster county are the reigning McGrath Cup champions?
  • From which club did Everton sign striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin in August 2016?
  • Who scored Manchester United's winning goal in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999?
  • Who won the 2019 US Open in golf?
  • Who top-scored for Tyrone in the 2019 McKenna Cup final win over Armagh?
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