City surrender unbeaten record

TEN-MAN Cork City lost the last remaining unbeaten record in the Premier Division as champions Drogheda United returned to winning ways with a morale-boosting victory in Turner’s Cross last night.

The key incidents in the game came back-to-back just past the quarter hour mark when, after Richie Baker had given the visitors the lead, Joe Gamble gave his own team a mountain to climb by incurring a sending off just two minutes later.

Drogheda seized the advantage to make it two before the break and, though a battling Cork side were hardly outclassed on the night, Paul Doolin’s men might well have doubled their final tally had they been a tad more clinical in front of goal.