Crewe United chief Eamonn McCarthy has spoken both of his admiration for Crumlin Star and his determination to send them packing in the Intermediate Cup this weekend.
Like his opposite number Paul Trainor this Saturday, McCarthy once headed the most feared and revered team in the Amateur League, but his Newington outfit which dominated at the turn of the last decade were doing their thing well before Star’s rise to prominence, so there was little opportunity to develop personal rivalries.
That would come later, not long after he took over at Crewe Park, when the visitors left it late to sink McCarthy’s men 2-1 in the cup.
