Pearl Slattery on Shels' success: 'I'll never experience a day like that in football again'

Peamount United needed just three points from their final two games to seal a third successive title, and two to force a play-off

Pearl Slattery of Shelbourne with the SSE Airtricity Women's National League trophy following the SSE Airtricity Women's National League match between Shelbourne and Wexford Youths at Tolka Park in Dublin. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

The Women’s National League has seen its fair share of dramatic climaxes in its ten-year history but nothing quite as dramatic as what unfolded on Saturday night.

Shelbourne captain Pearl Slattery has been in the league for nine of those years, winning four titles, but even she can’t quite fathom what played out over the weekend.