Roy to the rescue

IT WAS one of those moments in football which people cherish. Last Saturday in the Belfield Bowl, with his team one down and the match already deep into time added on, UCD goalkeeper Matt Gregg swapped his own goal for the opposing penalty box and, rose highest above friend and foe alike to head home a Derek Doyle free and rescue an unlikely point.

Cue general bemusement, amusement and one of the quotes of the season, as Gregg explained his own response to seeing the ball hit the back of the net: “I didn’t know what to do, it’s not as if I practice my celebrations.”

There were some folk, however, who could have done without being party to one of football’s quirkier twists of fate. “I was up there looking at it and I didn’t see any funny side of it,” says Barry Walsh. “No, it wasn’t one bit funny.”