Big guns collide as local soccer ties return

Rovers face Rangers in crucial clash

THE WEXFORD Football League season will resume on Saturday, with 14 youth league games to be decided, while a full programme of adult league fixtures will be played the following day.

The stand-out game of the weekend is undoubtedly the visit of Gorey Rangers to Enniscorthy to take on Shamrock Rovers on Sunday morning, where a win for the visitors would copper-fasten their title hopes, while a Rovers victory would keep them in the hunt.

Gorey Rangers still have an FAI Junior Cup quarter-final to look forward to and that game, away to Dublin side Usher Celtic, is due to be played on Sunday, July 26.

In the O’Neill’s LFA Junior Cup fifth round, Gorey Rangers will play Kilkenny outfit Freebooters at Fair Green on Sunday, August 2, at 2 p.m., while on the same day North End United travel to the Oscar Traynor Centre to face Kilmore Celtic in the quarter-final at 1 p.m.

All domestic cup competitions have been cancelled, namely the Wexford Cup, Neil O’Sullivan Cup, Billy Browne Cup, Gwyn Jones Cup and Youths Cup, to ensure that leagues can be completed in the truncated season, which must end by September 14.

There was disappointment for the Wexford Under-18 county side with the news that this season’s Youth Inter-League competition has been cancelled. Wexford were due to face Galway in the quarter-final.

Meanwhile, Wexford are waiting to play the Kilkenny League in the Oscar Traynor Trophy semi-final, with a date for the fixture yet to be finalised.