COUNTY FINAL

5 October 2018 No Comments by The Northern Standard

Colm Shalvey reports

Sunday’s Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship Final pits four-in-a-row chasers Scotstown against league champions Ballybay. Both of these clubs have returned to the fore in the senior ranks in recent times, particularly Scotstown, who have won four SFC titles since ending a 20-year wait in 2013, with their current three-in-a-row putting them second in the roll of honour ahead of Clontibret.

Ballybay’s 2012 breakthrough ended their 25-year run without winning the Mick Duffy Cup, while they have been semi-finalists in seven of the last eight years. Scotstown memorably came from a seemingly impossible position to stun Ballybay at the semi-final stage last year, when…

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