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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Dunmanway to erect stadium for Liverpool clash
By Sean O’Riordan
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
OAK trees out of little acorns grow – and the proof of that will be the erection of a 6,800-seater stadium where fans of a local West Cork soccer team will watch their heroes take on one of the world’s biggest clubs, Liverpool.
Dunmanway Town XI, with the help of the FAI (Football Association of Ireland), are spending €100,000 on the temporary stadium for their clash with the top club on August 6.
Dunmanway Town XI manager John Buckley confirmed tickets for the match will go on sale this Saturday at 9am.

Tickets will be available at McCarthy’s Sports in Bantry; Hickey’s Music Shop in Clonakilty; SuperValu, Dunmanway; and Welch Sports, Maylor Street, in Cork city.
To defray the costs of building the stand, plus increased security and insurance premiums associated with a large attendance, the club has been forced to increase ticket prices.
"We will be selling tickets at €40 per adult and €20 for children and senior citizens," John Buckley said.
A total of 2,000 tickets are reserved for children and senior citizens, 4,100 for adults and there are 700 corporate tickets available, each costing €100.
Mr Buckley said Liverpool has promised to send "a star-studded side" but, as yet, hasn’t named their team for the clash which will take place at Dunmanway’s Mary Immaculata Community College.
While it’s unlikely that Steven Gerrard will tog out, fans will be hoping that big names in the reserve team along with Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel, will line out.
Mr Buckley also said his club was hoping to bolster its side with up to five League of Ireland players, so they can make a game of it for the men in red.
This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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Old news of the event.
Liverpool head for ... Dunmanway!
June 25, 2009
Barclays Premier League giants Liverpool will take on Irish junior side Dunmanway Town in August in a massive coup for the tiny Cork club.
A Liverpool XI, expected to consist primarily of reserve players and members of the first-team fringe, will take on Dunmanway (population 2300) at the town’s Maria Immaculata Community College on August 6th.

Speaking of the vision of Belfast native and Dunmanway Town player David Hall, the man behind the unlikely fixture, manager John Buckley told the Irish Examiner: “I had my reservations when he did it. We have no association with the club and I honestly thought they’d ignore us. Now we’re just over the moon.

“We are hoping to draft in a couple of League of Ireland players so we can make a game of it. Liverpool are aware of our intention and have no problem with it.”

Tickets will cost €20 for adults and €10 for children and senior citizens, and an attendance of around 3000 is expected.
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Tiny club tackles Liverpool ticket frenzy
By Sean O’Riordan
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
KOP this – a tiny soccer club has received more than 26,000 requests for tickets for a match against one of the biggest teams in the world.
Since news broke that Liverpool FC had agreed to play an amateur side in West Cork, the club’s phones have been swamped.
Such has been the response that Dunmanway Town are in talks with the FAI to double the amount of fans it can accommodate for the August 6 clash.
Initially, the club limited tickets to 3,000 for the game, to be played at Dunmanway’s Maria Immaculata Community College.
However, demand from both sides of the water has been such that the club now hopes to double the gate.

Dunmanway player David Hall – who was the first to contact the Merseysiders looking for a game – said that his club is looking at building a temporary 5,000-seater stand, with space for another 1,000 fans standing.
"For the last six months I’ve been negotiating quite heavily with Liverpool. Previously they weren’t interested in getting their own ticket allocation, but they now want 10% because of the level of interest over there. They have been inundated with requests. We have had calls ourselves from people living in London and Liverpool," Mr Hall said.

The club and FAI officials will meet next Friday to carry out a security assessment on the temporary stand. "The FAI’s director of football, Gerry McDermott, and their safety director, Declan McCluskey, have been very good to us. We will be trying to fit in as many fans into the site as safely as possible," he said.
The club were offered the use of Turner’s Cross in Cork city for the match, but they declined.
Mr Hall said everybody in the town was behind the project. B&Bs and hotels in a 50km radius were filling up fast, he said. "We will require up to 60 security guards on the day. The local GAA club has offered to assist us by providing voluntary stewards."
The club are also hoping to set up a tented village for fans in the town centre.

It is expected that tickets will go on sale on Saturday, July 11, in Cork, Clonakilty, Dunmanway and Bantry.
Liverpool have promised to field a squad that could include Dutch internationals Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel as well as other first-team players such as Daniel Agger.
This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Read more: examiner.ie/ireland/tiny-club-tackles-liverpool-ticket-frenzy-95214.html

By Sean O’Riordan
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
IT pays to think big – just ask members of a small, rural soccer club who have landed a match against Liverpool.
Dunmanway Town XI player David Hall simply called Anfield six weeks ago and asked would the men in red like to travel to west Cork for a game.
"I had my reservations when he did it. We have no association with the club and I honestly thought they’d ignore us," club manager John Buckley said.
"Now we’re just over the moon."

Liverpool won’t be sending Steven Gerrard or Fernando Torres but have promised to field a squad which could include Dutch internationals Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel as well as French under-21 David Ngog and Daniel Agger.
The David v Goliath clash will take place at 2pm on August 6, but not on the Dunmanway club’s pitch. "We simply wouldn’t have the space. We’re hoping to attract up to 3,000 fans, so we will be staging the match at Maria Immaculata Community College, in Dunmanway," Mr Buckley said.
Liverpool club secretary, Ian Silvester, confirmed yesterday they had accepted the invitation and will fly into Cork the night before the game.
"In its decision to hold this game Liverpool FC, who are aware of their enormous fan base in the region, are bringing a taste of the Premier League to all their fans in west Cork," Mr Buckley said.

The club were runners up in the West Cork Premier League last season. But they won’t be able to match Liverpool’s firepower.
"We are hoping to draft in a couple of League of Ireland players so we can make a game of it. Liverpool are aware of our intention and have no problem with it," Mr Buckley said.
Tickets will cost €20 for adults and €10 for children and senior citizens.
The club, which has around 300 members, will use the money raised to further develop its pitches and purchase new equipment.
It’s unlikely that any fans will travel over from the Kop but then Liverpool needn’t worry as there are thousands of their supporters in Cork who will no doubt be clamouring for tickets.
This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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