Limerick FC's Faherty named player of the month

Limerick’s Vinny Faherty has been named the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Player of the Month for August in recognition of his huge contribution to the club’s thrilling bid to pull off the great escape.

Ahead of tomorrow trip to Bray which could see his side finally off the bottom of the table, Faherty said: “It’s my first time to get the award but it’s a lot down to do with the team and their performance. The fact that we are six games unbeaten has a lot to do with it also.

“We scored 20 goals in our last six games so it has been quite a turnaround. I can’t put my finger on why or what happened but it’s been terrific. I’m more surprised at the 17 games that it took us to win one. That was incredible. “Our perspective changed once we got that first win. We started to look at everything a bit differently and our confidence got a big boost. Now we think every game is winnable.”