Tight battle will suit Ernesiders but Armagh can end fairytale

AS famous French poet once put it, history teaches us everything, including the future, and a quick recap of this pair’s recent head-to-heads is as good an indicator as any about what awaits in Clones.

Fermanagh and Armagh have met five times in the championship, front door and back, in the last six years and the bottom line is that, when it is tight, Fermanagh have a shot, when it opens up, they don’t.

Armagh hit 0-16 in 2002 and again in the 2006 replay, 2-12 in the meeting three years ago. All three games were won at a canter. The flip side was in 2004, and again a year later when they scored only 11 points. Fermanagh won one of those ties and drew the other.