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19th March 2018
11:21am GMT

Everyone has seen those pictures of match day programmes with as many as 15 lines through one team as changes were announced prior to throw-in.
The team that's announced on a Thursday - to the public - is very, very rarely the actual team that will take the field for the start of the game so journalists in the press box are often at their busiest just before and for the first five minutes of the game trying to work out who has actually started.
It's gone further now than the late changes to the team which the announcer on the PA system usually gets before the action starts. Now, sometimes, no-one is being told what the side will be - apart from the players themselves, hopefully.
Last summer in Mayo, the Derry manager was asked straight out if there were any changes to his team. He said no.
When Derry took the field, Emmett McGuckin wasn't starting and, in his place, Michael McEvoy - a defender - was.
On Sunday in Brewster Park, the Armagh team didn't so much feel the need to lie as they did just refuse to co-operate. Cahair O'Kane of the Irish News reported the following:
https://twitter.com/CahairOKane1/status/975370172260380672
There were said to be murmurs around the stadium thereafter and, as it went, the Armagh team never got read out.
The teams drew 0-7 apiece in the end and Armagh's promotion and place in the Division Three final was confirmed.Explore more on these topics: