Almost Thirty Years Ago

This is another post in a series about matches I have attended over the years. I often buy a match program when I attend a match, so I have something physical and tangible to remember the event.

If you regularly read my blog, you will know that I have done around ten posts in the last year on this topic.

I happened upon a few old boxes in my parent's house with stuff from my childhood you see. Let me fill in the details in case you didn't read the other posts.

So, I called to see my folks and they weren't in. I was about to turn on my heel and go home, but my three boys were with me and asked if they could see my old room as they like to do sometimes, and so we popped upstairs in my parents house. The boys had a root around and asked some questions and then we found some stuff from my childhood.

There were old photos, sticker books, mementos and old equipment, including old cameras and a wireless as they were called then, we call them radios now. I got the old equipment handed down as I thought they looked really cool back in the day.

This post is about the match and racing programs I found and today it's about this match programme from 1997. It was an All All Ireland Football Semi Final between Mayo and Offaly.

This was a semi final in which Mayo ran out fairly comfortable winners and booked their place in the All Ireland final where they'd face Kerry in their quest to bring the Sam Maguire cup home to Mayo.

Mayo 0-13 - Offaly 0-7

Unfortunately for Mayo the failed in their ultimate task and Kerry beat them 0-13 to 1-07 on the day.

Poor auld Mayo have not won the All Ireland since 1951 and have actually lost another eight finals since 1951.