Soccer players attacked

TWO players from one of the country’s leading soccer clubs were hospitalised in the early hours of yesterday morning after they were set upon and robbed by a gang of youths, including two girls.

The two Waterford United players needed treatment after the vicious attack which gardaí said appears to have been random.

Midfielder Ross Cosgrave, 19, from Tipperary, and 17-year-old striker Joe Wilson from Wexford both figured prominently in Waterford’s promotion to Division One this season.