Buckey won't use 'crap' Dundalk pitch as excuse

'Let's cut to the chase – it's crap,' he said of Dundalk’s artificial surface.

NO EXCUSES: Cork City manager Liam Buckley. Pic: ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

Liam Buckley won’t be using Dundalk’s ‘crap’ Oriel Park pitch as an excuse if Cork City plunder further into the certainty of a relegation playoff tonight.

A 2-1 defeat to Shelbourne on Friday left the Rebel Army with a nine-point deficit to bridge in the final six games to avoid facing a First Division team for survival in November.