Legend Marco!

United have the chance tomorrow to stretch their unbeaten run to nine games, when they entertain Armagh City. A win or a draw would mean United going into Tuesday night’s County Antrim Shield final with the possibility of racking up a ten match unbeaten run. Manager Tommy Wright has told his players to banish all thoughts of Tuesday’s final from their mind and to be fully focused against Armagh tomorrow. Armagh’s tails will be up after their great victory over the Glens last Saturday, which ‘heralded’ the end of manager Roy Coyle and they will be a tough nut to crack. Adding a little more spice to the game will be the appearance of former United legend, Mark Carlisle. ‘Marco’ as he is familiarly known by his legions of United fans has been out with an injury recently but hopefully will be able to play some part in tomorrow’s game, no matter whether he plays or not he’ll surely get a warm welcome from Sky Blue fans. Marco it must be stressed never wished to leave ‘his’ beloved United and it was somehow ironic that after surviving half a dozen managers, he was forced out by the man who says he values loyalty above all else. That man has now moved on and we at ‘Sport think that his treatment of our hero, Marco, was a prime example of him having lost the plot. But that’s all water under the bridge now and tomorrow we hope Marco and his team leave the Showgrounds pointless. It’s hard to envisage what the United line-up will be, but we can’t help thinking that the United manager will want to give new signing Paul Brown at least 45 minutes tomorrow and so have him primed for at least a place on the bench next Tuesday. As we have no reports to the contrary we think Albert Watson will still be missing, which means Simmsy and Smickers holding down the central defensive roles tomorrow again. It’ll be hard luck on Whitehead man Albert if he misses out on our County Antrim Shield winning team, but as such is life. Gerald Rowe will probably get the nod on the right wing which is a bit hard on Scatesy, who seems to have found his scoring touch again. Aiden Watson will return if fit, but we expect Phil Charnock to get a game either for Watson or at the expense of Gary Haveron. This leaves the United ‘talisman’ Rory Hamill, who looked sharp when he came on as a sub last week, fighting for a place on the bench. But who knows what the United manager has in mind, we could be completely off the mark (or Marco), if you’ll pardon our pun. All we know is the games there to be won and we have the team to do it, so let’s go get three points and then and only then, we’ll think about Tuesday night!