Brian McEniff won’t ever forget pain of 2005 loss to Armagh

The lid was flipped. The usually unruffled Brian McEniff had blown his right off.

There are things he was prepared to let slide but after seeing three of his players sent off he wasn’t for holding back when asked to discuss Donegal’s 2005 Ulster semi-final replay defeat to Armagh.

“I have always maintained that an Ulster man should referee these games,” he said. “That was no advantage to anybody, that refereeing performance, and I felt we suffered. I felt that where Armagh had the upper hand for much of the game, we had an opportunity to take scores and couldn’t because Armagh players were hanging out of us, and we didn’t get a free. What happens in that case? Players get frustrated.”