The visitors were somewhat fortuitous to be leading 4-0 at half time. Although they played some nice football, 3 of the goals came from rebounds in a 20-minute spell. A better performance from VEC in the 2nd half, even after sustaining 3 injuries, kept the score-line down, but Harding fully deserved this victory.

The number seven shows up a lot in everyday life: 7 days in the week; 7 continents in the world; 7 primary colors in a rainbow ; 7 basic musical notes (‘do’, ‘re’, ‘me’ etc.); the 7 seas; and even 7 dwarves with Snow White; and then the 7 wonders of the ancient world.
Well, the number 7 turned up a lot in this match, but there were no wonders unfortunately.
The visitors scored in the 7^th, 21^st & 35^th minutes before Paddy Cook pulled one back for VEC in the 42^nd minute (note: all multiples of 7)! Paradoxically, they went further ahead in the 56^th minute (work it out) just before our no. 7 received a yellow card! Btw, it was pretty dark when the game ended at 7 minutes past 8.

This was Shane O’Connor’s goal in the 66th minute to bring us back into the game after the visitors had gone 2-0 up after just 10 minutes and then made it 3-1 just before half-time. In between, Ciar McCormick scored his first ever goal for VEC when he was in the right spot to pounce on a defensive error. However, despite constant pressure in the final 20 minutes, we couldn’t ger the equaliser that the players’ efforts probably deserved.