VEC FC v Harding IF FC

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.

St. Mary’s (Sandyford) FC v VEC FC

Conor Vaughan (pic.) scored his first goal for VEC when opening the scoring in this ‘must win’ Premier Division match in Sandyford. Joey Byrne scored our second from the penalty spot in the 72nd minute when the home team were reduced to 10 and then Rory Kiely (also with his first goal for the Club) put ‘the icing on the cake’ with an audacious free-kick five minutes later to secure an important 3 league points for VEC.

VEC FC v Quarryvale FC

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 7th, 21st & 35th minutes before Paddy Cook pulled one back for VEC in the 42nd minute (note: all multiples of 7)! Paradoxically, they went further ahead in the 56th 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.

VEC FC v Howth Celtic

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.

VEC FC v Harding IF FC

VEC Pitches declared unplayable, so match switched to Ringsend Park pitch 2

Conor Callaghan back in action after 18 months out with injury …
and he came away with the ball.