Jim set to give Derry the Blues

WATERFORD UNITED manager Jimmy McGeough threw his hands in the air at the prospect of condemning his home-town club, Derry City, to relegation for the first time in history and exclaimed: "Don't blame me, it's not my fault."

McGeough admitted he faced tomorrow's eircom League tie with mixed feelings. He won Cup and League titles with Derry before helping Waterford set headlines in the late 1960s and early '70s and knows just what it means to Derry to be flirting with relegation.

He said: "I can't believe it. Derry is a hot-bed of soccer and for me to see them struggling is simply beyond belief."