Rampant Roscommon helped by Leitrim’s ‘self-destruction’

Roscommon 1-21 Leitrim 0-11: IT is hard to believe that Leitrim have never beaten Roscommon at Páirc Sean Mac Diarmada in the championship. But given the gulf between them yesterday, maybe it’s not so hard.

They have now clashed 17 times in the championship in Carrick-on-Shannon, and, aside from a Leitrim success in 1927, which was successfully appealed, and a couple of draws, Roscommon have always made their raids across the bridge, over the Shannon, count.

The Rossies travelled in big numbers yesterday, somewhat in trepidation after the horrors of New York, but the Leitrim resistance never got going and, by the end, they were down to 12 men on a dismal day for the county.