FAI Cup semi-final Galway United v Bohemians (Eamon Deacy Park, live on RTÉ1, 2.40)
Brendan Clarke believes that if an ‘All or Nothing’ documentary was made on Galway United, the managerial team of John Caulfield and Ollie Horgan would bring the house down.
Galway, who romped to the First Division title a fortnight ago, take on Bohemians in the first of this season’s FAI Cup semi-finals at Eamonn Deacy Park on Saturday afternoon.
And given their astonishing home form of having won all 18 games on the Dyke Road this year, scoring a remarkable 61 goals with only five conceded, many have the Tribesmen as favourites to be at the Aviva Stadium on November 12.
“Look, it's funny, you have John whose managerial career would have been fighting at the top of whatever division he was in and he brings in Ollie Horgan,” explains veteran goalkeeper Clarke, who is hoping to reach his fifth cup final, two of which he’s won at Sligo Rovers and his beloved St Patrick’s Athletic.
“And, no disrespect to Finn Harps who would have been backs to the corner kind of job to keep them up every year, (but) we have that balance of pushing to win stuff and Ollie's bring you back down to earth stuff.”
Asked if it was a ‘good-cop, bad cop’ scenario, Clarke added: “I don't even know if they're cops.
“I've said it from pre-season, but you know the Amazon docs All or Nothing, if there was one for Galway United it would blow everything else out of the water with how they go on with each other.
“It's brilliant. But you strip it back to two brilliant people off the pitch. Away from football they are two phenomenal people.
“But they are also two brilliant football people who know this league inside out.
”Football has changed a lot over the last few years,
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