YOU HAVE CALLED THIS ONE WRONG, LONG!

KARL SHEPPARD has hit back at Keith Long for branding Cork City an ‘agricultural’ team.

The Bohs boss used the term to describe the Rebels approach in the FAI Cup semi-final replay defeat at Turner’s Cross last month. But Sheppard said: “We were going through a sticky patch and everyone was only too happy to jump on the bandwagon and have a pop off Cork.

“It was strange getting abuse from a Bohs manager (right) who called us agricultural.

“The way I look at it, we finished 20 or, 25 points [it was 29] ahead of Bohs again this year.

“We put that in the back of our mind and maybe it drives us on and gives us that extra bit of motivation.”

Sheppard is back in training after a grade two hamstring tear in his hamstring and hopes to start on Sunday.