This is another post in a series about matches I have attended over the years. I often buy a match program when I attend a match, so I have something physical and tangible to remember the event with. This one is twenty five years old, which is hard to believe. Time waits for no man!
If you regularly read my blog, you will know that I have done around ten posts in the last year on this topic.
I happened upon a few old boxes in my parent's house with stuff from my childhood you see. Let me fill in the details in case you didn't read the other posts.
So, I called to see my folks and they weren't in. I was about to turn on my heel and go home, but my three boys were with me and asked if they could see my old room as they like to do sometimes, and so we popped upstairs in my parents house. The boys had a root around and asked some questions and then we found some stuff from my childhood.
There were old photos, sticker books, mementos and old equipment, including old cameras and a wireless as they were called then, we call them radios now. I got the old equipment handed down as I thought they looked really cool back in the day.
This post is about the match and racing programs I found and today it's about this match programme from 2000. It was an All All Ireland Football Final between my home county Galway and Kerry.
The All Ireland final comes around once a year and is similar to the Super Bowl in American football or the FA Cup in Soccer.
I remember this game distinctly and Galway should have won the match, they had a chance at the very end, but squandered it.
Galway 0-14 - Kerry 0-14
The match went to a replay, which Galway lost unfortunately.
Here's a trip down memory lane from almost thirty years ago in Ireland reading through the match day programme.
The images used throughout are all my own captured on my Samsung Smartphone
