Rampant Waterford move nine points clear

Waterford FC 4 - Cobh Ramblers 0: Waterford FC have moved nine points clear at the summit of the SSE Airtricity League First Division with a comprehensive 4-0 win over second placed Cobh Ramblers in their battle at the RSC on Friday night last.

It was a tough night for Ramblers - who started John Kavanagh, after he completed a loan move from Cork City yesterday - but they had an early letoff. There was controversy on 15 minutes when Blues striker David McDaid appeared to be fouled in the area by a Cobh defender, and when John Martin found the net from the breaking ball, referee Damien MacGraith decided that McDaid dived in the area, much to the dismay of the home faithful.

With John Martin causing the Cobh defence problems in the first half, they failed really to test the Ramblers keeper Paul Hunt before a half chance fell the way of the visitors on 38 minutes when Karl Caulfield tried his luck from distance but his effort flew over the crossbar of Matthew Connor.