Brave City make a point

SSE AIRTRICITY PREMIER DIVISION

Hollywood scriptwriters might have demanded a Cork City victory against the reigning league champions on the night club legend John Caulfield took his first bow as manager in front of a terrific attendance of 5,322 at a throbbing Turner’s Cross.

Instead, we got something much more true to football life but no less compelling: a 1-1 draw which was all the more deserved for the home side given they had to play the last 25 minutes with 10 men, after skipper John Dunleavy was sent off as a rash of bookings — six in all — meant an evening fraught with yellow peril was always in danger of turning red.