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Mon 06 Jun 2010Meath's avalanche of goals buries Dublin
THE ETERNAL verities of one sporting rivalry might have been confirmed in Bloemfontein but yesterday in Croke Park the wheel turned in the GAA Leinster football championship. Dublin, in search of a fifth successive title, were undone by some top-class Meath finishing. Although defeated by just 14 scores to 13, the champions managed to concede five goals as part of that total while offering only points in return.
Given the options on offer a fairly reasonable 60,035 turned out for the latest instalment in one of football’s big rivalries and saw a hungry and committed Meath hang on during an evenly contested first half and pull away to win by 11 points, the biggest margin between the counties in nearly 50 years.
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