Mervue pay price for protecting lead

Date Published: 24-Mar-2009

MERVUE United got the first point of their maiden season on the board against Finn Harps, but Johnny Glynn will be disappointed not to have won the match after conceding the lead in the dying seconds of a drab encounter at Terryland Park on Friday night.The home team looked the more dangerous of the two sides for long periods of the opening 45 minutes, and a goal from David Goldbey just before half time gave them the lead for the first time in their short League of Ireland history. Mervue became more negative in the second half as they sought to protect their advantage and were punished by Finn Harps moments from the end when Conor Gethins smashed the ball past deputising 'keeper Eoin Martyn to salvage a point for the visitors.Glynn’s men might well have...