Turley’s appliance of science set to get the right result

THEY say necessity is the mother of invention.

A close second might be hours standing in wet shoes on the sideline around a dark Armagh pitch as your trembling fingers try to hold a biro.

Danny Turley was that soldier. The Portadown native spent the past seven years as the Orchard County’s football stats and analysis man. The process was this: stand on the sideline watching a game or training session. Make pencil marks to denote events throughout the hour — a pass, a goal, a tackle, a punch pass. Everything he could manage.