McFadden determined to end 19 years of pain for Donegal

PLENTY of Donegal teenagers in 1998 associated Joe Brolly with anguish. Colm McFadden can go one better. The pundit’s winning goal for Derry actually caused him physical pain.

As he recalled: “I watched it at home in the sitting room and we were leading for most of the game and when Brolly got the goal at the end, I remember I ran straight down the hall and went outside and there was a bucket in front of me and I just booted it.

“That is actually one of my earliest memories — that goal and the heartache it caused.”