Derry City and eircom League in stand off
Derry City and the eircom League are currently involved in a heated stand-off over when their penultimate League fixture with St Patrick's Athletic will go ahead.
The clash was originally fixed for Friday November 11 but, three days ago, was moved to Monday November 14 with the game due to shown live on RTE2.
But Derry have contacted the eircom League and informed them that the Brandywell is unavailable on Mondays because of the regular weekly greyhound meeting and the game was then switched to Sunday November 13.
However, Derry have now informed the League and St Patrick's Athletic that the game will go ahead as originally planned on November 11 leading to the stand-off.
Derry believe that the League cannot move a game at such short notice while the League claim that it has the right to move games.
Derry manager Stephen Kenny admitted that the whole episode was frustrating for him and his players.
Kenny said: "We've got a situation where the League want us to have ten days between the Bray game and our second last game against Pats but only four days between that game and the last game against Cork.
"But I'm not concerned about it yet because first of all we've got to make sure that we still have something to play for by beating Bray."
