LOGICA FOILED BY FIANNA
Fianna 2-0 Logica
17 March 1991

Another complete farago! Defeat in the five-division cup by second division opposition. The prospect of playing Fianna (translation: "soldiers") on St Patricks Day was perhaps better than the usual excuses for lack of enthusiasm. Abbott, hoping to pursue his revolutionary new nine-man strategy, was foiled at the eleventh hour when two players arrived at the designated pre-match meeting point accompanied by "mates". Worse, these "mates" had unthinkingly brought their boots with them, and were rumoured to have "played a bit before". Not again for Logica I suspect!

A quite humourous farce was played out on yet another pitch resembling a potato field, with Logica players getting seriously injured at regular intervals on the uneven surface, in between missing gaping chances with increasing creativity and imagination. As the punch-line approached, none of the onlookers could surely have envisaged such an ironic climax. Fianna somehow contrived to score two goals in the last five minutes with virtually their first attacks of the game.

After almost constant attacking, Logica had been knocked out of the Trophy Challenge Cup at only the second hurdle, and this meant that for the first time in three seasons, they would not win any honour.