The game was forced straight to penalties, as stipulated in the rules of this year’s competition.
“I know that might sound like sour grapes afterwards but no it’s purely the fact that I think we had got momentum in the game at that point and I think we had the squad that was fit to go the extra 30 minutes that you would maybe get.”
In the penalty shoot-out it was the Derg men who held the nerve to emerge 9-8 victors after Dwayne McManus had his spot-kick saved by the Derg keeper Paul Wells and Alex Holder’s effort crashed back off the crossbar.