The Irish News - Thursday May 20 2010: Carr loses fight to be fit for Ballybofey encounter
DOWN defender Aidan Carr will definitely miss the Mournemen’s Ulster SFC first round clash with Donegal on May 30.
The Clonduff man’s fitness has returned to the extent that he is now able to run, but he will not have recovered sufficiently to line out at Ballybofey.
Meanwhile, there are serious question marks over the availability of Brendan McArdle and Damien Rafferty, who are continuing their respective recoveries from hamstring injuries.
Midfielder Ambrose Rogers is still wearing a cast after sustaining a stress fracture in his foot, Aidan Brannigan has a broken foot and Kevin Duffin has damaged ankle ligaments.
One potential chink of brightness on the horizon is the fitness of Liam Doyle.
Down manager James McCartan hopes to have “more answers’’ on the Liatroim man’s recovery in the near future.
Meanwhile, Donegal manager John Joe Doherty reported that all his players had come through a busy weekend of club championship action in the county unscathed and all trained on Tuesday night.
Doherty last week added four of the county’s U21s to the panel which just missed out on promotion to Division One of the National League.
Michael Murphy and Leo McLoone had already been part of the senior set-up but Doherty confirmed that the quartet of Kevin Mulhern, Mark McHugh, Paddy McGrath and Dermot Molloy had done enough during the run to the All-Ireland U21 final to merit call-ups.
BIRTHDAYS
Keith Fletcher (cricket) - former England captain and team manager, born 1944.
Iker Casillas (soccer) - former Porto, Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper, born 1981.
Petr Cech (soccer) - former Chelsea, Arsenal and Czech Republic goalkeeper, born 1982.
Chris Froome (cycling) - British winner of the Tour de France in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, born 1985.
Dexter Blackstock (soccer) - former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker, born 1986.
Tonia Couch (diving) - British Olympic diver and former European 10 metre synchro champion, born 1989.
Piotr Zielinski (soccer) - Napoli and Poland midfielder, born 1994.
QUICK QUIZ
1. Who was manager of Newcastle when they won promotion to the Premier League in 1993?
2. In which month does the FA Cup normally start?
3. Which football club was formerly known as Everton Athletic?
4. In which year did Paula Radcliffe last win the London Marathon?
5. And which Ethiopian ran the marathon in under two hours in the 1:59 Challenge?
6. Which county won the All-Ireland GAA Senior Hurling Championship title in 2010?
7. How many players are on the rink at the start of an ice hockey game?
8. Which football club plays their home matches at the Highbury Stadium?
9. Which Ukrainian world boxing champion is known as 'Hi-Tech'?
10. In which US state to the New York Jets and New York Giants play their home matches?
(See quiz answers at bottom)
ON THIS DAY
1970: Bobby Charlton scored his 49th and last goal for England, against Colombia in Bogota, in a warm-up game for the World Cup in Mexico. His record was broken by Wayne Rooney in 2015.
1990: Monica Seles ended Steffi Graf's record of 66 consecutive victories when she beat her 6-4 6-3 in the final of the German Open.
1992: Barcelona made it third time lucky as they won the European Cup, with Ronald Koeman scoring the only goal against Sampdoria at Wembley. In their previous two appearances in the final, the Catalan side had lost to Benfica in 1961 and Steaua Bucharest in 1986.
1996: After playing more than 650 games and scoring 346 goals for Liverpool, striker Ian Rush left Anfield on a free transfer to join Leeds.
2002: Scotland suffered their fourth successive defeat under new boss Berti Vogts when they were beaten 2-0 by South Africa in Hong Kong, making the German the first ever Scotland manager to lose his opening four matches in charge of the national side.
2008: Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton was jailed for six months at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting charges of assault and affray in relation to a confrontation outside a McDonald's restaurant in the city in December.
2013: Real Madrid president Florentino Perez announced coach Jose Mourinho would leave Real Madrid at the end of the season. The Portuguese rejoined former club Chelsea on June 3.
2019: Manchester City held a victory parade, with Vincent Kompany bidding an emotional farewell to the club in front of 100,000 fans.
QUICK QUIZ answers: 1 Kevin Keegan; 2 August; 3 Liverpool; 4. 2005; 5. Eliud Kipchoge; 6. Tipperary, they defeated Kilkenny 4-17 to 1-18. 7. 12; 8. Fleetwood; 9. Vasiliy Lomachenko; 10. New Jersey.
