Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face.
Belts, cuts and scars heel a lot quicker when you’re after winning a game. After losing, the pain of a loss and and any injuries suffered are ten times worse.
Moy Tír Na nÓg suffered an agonising one point defeat to Edendork in the Tyrone SFC on Saturday evening. Sean Cavanagh will have been sorer than any of them getting up this morning.
LCC Group SFC Round 1 at O'Neill Park, Dungannon.
An Mhaigh v Éadán na dTorc will soon be getting underway.
Here are the team line-outs: pic.twitter.com/4Czk9MXYCe
— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) September 15, 2018
It was a bruising encounter up in Dungannon. Six men received red cards in a game where bizarrely, not one of them was a straight one.
The yellows and black cards mounted in a highly strung encounter with the tension all kicking off after just 20 minutes of the action.
The game was delayed for a lengthy period of time after an incident that saw Sean Cavanagh taken away in an ambulance.
LCC Group SFC Round 1 (20 mins): An Mhaigh 0-2 Éadán na dTorc 0-4
Lengthy delay due to a bad injury to Sean Cavanagh
— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) September 15, 2018
That was only the start of it with three Tyrone stars in Colm Cavanagh, Darren McCurry and Harry Loughran all subsequently sent off, McCurry’s second yellow coming just moments after he’d kicked the winning point for Edendork.
Moy 0-9 v Edendork 0-10 Edendork number 13 Darren McCurry already on a yellow card is shown a black card & red card! 66+min #GAA #TyroneSFC #PhillysUpdates
— PhillyMc (@MoysPhillyMc) September 15, 2018
A picture emerged showing the damage done to Cavanagh’s face on Sunday morning, with a couple of scars and scratches stretching all the way across his face.
And so it continues 😨😨@KCsixtyseven Edendork played Moy today in the Tyrone senior championship first round
20 yellows -6 reds-1 Black
And Sean Cavanagh transported away to hospital in an ambulance. The man that inflicted the injury did not receive a card of any description pic.twitter.com/gOWQdhLVoc— david greene (@buddygreene) September 16, 2018
Moy issued the following statement on their Facebook page after the game.
“Commiserations to An Mhaigh senior men’s football squad and management on their very unfortunate one point defeat to Edendork in today’s SFC first round match at Dungannon.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Sean Cavanagh who picked up a nasty facial injury early in the match and was transported to Craigavon hospital by ambulance.”
Cavanagh has since tweeted about the extent of the injuries he’s suffered.
https://twitter.com/SeanCavanagh14/status/1041336434039431168
Speedy recovery Sean.
