Dundalk will relish cup meeting with Rovers

MARTIN MURRAY, who led Dundalk to the FAI Carlsberg Cup title last season, welcomed their second round draw against Shamrock Rovers last night with the comment: "It is just like the cup final against Bohs, we are again the outsiders. That's how we like it."

Dundalk were first of the 32 teams out of the drum when the draw was made in Dublin last night and, by an extraordinary twist of fate, they were guaranteed the match of the round when drawn against cup specialists Shamrock Rovers.

Said Shamrock Rovers’ new manager Liam Buckley: “We are already looking forward to it. It is absolutely a special match, all the more so because we have signed two members of that winning Dundalk team, Stephen McGuinness and James Keddy.”