Shane Long's nephew, Eamon, scores extra-time winner in Tipperary Youths Cup derby

Tipperary Youths Cup (1st Round)

Two-Mile-Borris 4 Peake Villa 3 (After extra-time)

This local derby kicked off in dreary and cold conditions in Newhill on Saturday afternoon, but by the end of the game had warmed up into a real ding-dong cup battle between two very good youth sides.

The visitors got off to a dream start when a home defender put a cross into his own net after just five minutes, and this gave Peake Villa the impetus to dominate the early part of the game. It was panic stations for the home team who haven’t played a match in over two months and the lack of games really showed, when the Thurles outfit doubled their advantage in the 20th minute thanks to a brilliant free kick from Michael Anthony McCarthy.

Borris eventually woke up and started to get a hold on the game and pulled a goal back when Aaron Shanahan deservedly scored from a great strike outside the box.

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The hosts were starting to play some nice football at this stage and Jack Delaney and Tom Ryan created some great chances to score, but the ball just wouldn’t go in the net.

The Thurles side responded to this by restoring their two goal lead ten minutes before the break when Kieran Purcell was quickest to react to a defensive mix-up to score into from six yards out.

This was how the game went to the break and it was the home side that seemed to make the most of the stoppage, coming back out in flying form and pulling a goal back when Eamon Long hit a cracker into the bottom corner of the Peake Villa net to make it 3-2, just before the hour mark.

They continued to press and with 15 minutes left in normal time were denied a goal when a defender stopped a shot from Jack Delaney with his hand on the goal line. Awarded a penalty and with the visitors reduced to ten men, Borris levelled the game when Louis Coughlan made no mistake with the spot kick as he drilled the ball into the bottom corner of the net.

This was the final score and the game went to extra time, being eventually decided by Eamon Long, who emulated his famous uncle Shane, and drilled another unstoppable shot past the Villa keeper from just inside the box to give Borris a hard fought comeback win after extra-time.