This article is from page 57 of the 2011-08-02 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 57 JPG
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the winners of the Clare District Soccer League (CDSL) fair play award provoked a few wry chuckles at the league’s annual general meeting on Monday night of last week.
“Now lads this isn’t a fix”, remarked league registrar Leo Murphy with a smile as he told club delegates that Treaty Celtic had won the Fair Play accolade for the 2010/11 season.
Murphy’s assurances were jokingly dismissed by delegates as bursts of laughter and cries of “fix” filled the McCarthy room at the West County Hotel.
Surely the clubs had little reason to be skeptical. After all Treaty Celtic are a team comprised of Gardaí based in Limerick and Clare, making them perhaps the team most likely to win a prize for staying on the right side of the law. In their debut season, Celtic finished in mid-table the third division.
Meanwhile, Murphy also reminded clubs of new procedures for the payment of team affiliation fees.
He said clubs must pay € 400 at the start of August while a further pay- ment of € 400 must be made by November.
Details were also announced of a new method of registering players. Murphy told the meeting that players can now be registered by email.
He said this would allow clubs to register new players at short notice prior to games. He explained that forms would only be accepted by the league registrar or secretary.
In his annual report, Murphy also urged clubs to return cheques for affiliation fees by registered post.