Roy of the Rovers stuff in Tipperary - Coming from 4-0 down to win 5-4 thriller

Clonmel Credit Union League Division 3

Donohill & District 5 Tipperary Town 4

Donohill and District hosted Tipperary Town on Sunday and came out the right side of a nine-goal thriller that had both sets of supporters on tenterhooks right to the end of the game.

Town started the quicker and ran the home side ragged for the first 25 minutes or so, with Mark Roche bagging himself a hat trick.

It looked all over for Donohill on the half-hour mark when a Ryan Maher goal made it 4-0, but then from nowhere the home side hit back with a vengeance.

Ten minutes before the break, Dinny Crosse pulled a goal back, and five minutes later Alan Wallace fired to the net to halve the deficit.

Dinny Crosse then got a huge goal in the final minute of the first half to send his side to half time just a goal behind after they looked dead and buried fifteen minutes earlier.

Five minutes into the second period, the game was level when Seanie Ryan found space on the right, cut in and bent a beautiful goal past a helpless Tipperary Town ‘keeper.

The teams went at it hammer and tongs in a very open game for the rest of the half, and six minutes from time Donohill and District completed the unlikeliest of comebacks when Ned Lowry found the net from the penalty spot to give his side all three points.

That sent the Town side home with their tails between their legs.