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When the history of Galway United Football Club is eventually written, it would do well to recognise the significance of yesterday morning in a meeting room of the Connacht Hotel.

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Prior to their final league game of the season, Athlone were still unsure of their place in the play-offs the main threat to their ambitions being Treaty United who were two points inferior to the Town pre kick-off in Lissywollen on Friday night.

Galway United travel to the Carlisle Grounds tomorrow night (7.45pm) to take on Bray Wanderers, and with seven games remaining in the league, United need a maximum of seven points to clinch the title.

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A second-half flurry of goals allowed Galway United to extend their commanding lead at the top of the first division to 13 points as they ruthlessly dispatched Longford Town in Eamonn Deacy Park on Friday night by 4-0.

Four red cards were produced last Friday night as Athlone Town beat local rivals Longford Town. The winning goal came after 16 minutes as Frantz Pierrot continued his amazing scoring streak. The visitors were reduced to 10 men just after the hour mark. An explosive ending saw three more dismissals as Longford manager Stephen Henderson followed Kyle O’Connor down the tunnel. Home goalkeeper Vlad Velikin had also seen red in the final minute.

The stakes are high for Galway United when they host Waterford FC in a top-of-the-table tie tomorrow night in Eamonn Deacy Park (7.45pm).

Galway United recorded their sixth win on the spin on Friday night in Eamonn Deacy Park as they continue to make the early running in the SSE Airtricity first division.