GALWAY United are expecting their biggest crowd of the season this Friday night when they welcome Cobh Ramblers to Eamonn Deacy Park looking to extend their perfect start to the season to 11 successive wins (7.45pm).

The game has been designated as ‘Club Night’, with United inviting clubs from around the city and county to the game, an initiative which apparently has been widely embraced.

United reported during the week that there were just 1,200 tickets remaining for the game, the first of two games they will play this weekend, as they are away to Longford Town on Bank Holiday Monday (7.30pm). With Eamonn Deacy Park having a capacity of just over 4,300 this season, then if United’s figures are correct, more than 3,000 tickets had already been snapped up for the game by the start of the week.

“We go into a lot of tough games coming up, and double fixtures over the Bank Holiday weekend,” United manager, John Caulfield, said after last Friday’s edgy 4-1 win over Kerry FC. “We are hoping to get a massive crowd [for the Cobh game], it is a club night, we want the fans behind us,” he said.

United have raced ahead of every team bar Waterford thanks to their 100% start to the season, and it is clear even at this early stage of the season that it is a two-horse race for the title between United and The Blues, who closed to within seven points on Monday night after winning their game in hand over Treaty United.

Such has been the dominance of United – and let’s not forget Waterford have lost just once, at home to United – that there are just three teams with a positive goal difference in the division: United are +29, Waterford are +16, and Friday’s visitors have a goal difference of +1. That, allied to United’s first-half struggles against Kerry last week, means there should not be any complacency on behalf of the home side on Friday.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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