‘HE MUST HAVE a foot like a traction engine’, was the summation once of that noted soccer commentator Alan Partridge.
It seems an apt phrase to capture what Belmullet’s Shane Nallen did in yesterday’s Mayo intermediate football quarter-final in Ballina.
His side trailed by 3-7 to 0-10 against Shrule-Glencorrib late on, when he lined up this free. With the amount of players back in defence and the distance from the goal, it seemed like a daunting challenge but Nallen had other ideas.
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The terrific strike cut the gap to three points but wasn’t part of a Belmullet comeback as Shrule-Glencorrib held on for a 3-7 to 1-10 victory.
Nallen’s 2016 championship campaign may have concluded then but at least he has a goal for the scrapbook.
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