Derry City and Drohgeda United clash in today's FAI Cup final at Aviva Stadium (3.00pm)
Derry City have reached today’s FAI Cup final the hard way and Michael Duffy has single handedly dragged them there.
READ MORE: FAI Cup final latest as Derry City ace Patrick McEleney eyes silver lining to frustrating seasonThe PFA Ireland Player of the Year nominee scored both goals in the semi-final win away to Bohemians last month, and also netted against Shels and St Pat’s. Duffy is chasing his fifth FAI Cup trophy, having lifted it twice with both Derry and Dundalk but admits the 2022 success over Shelbourne was the sweetest.
“My son is absolutely crazy about football. The last four or five months, he's been asking me about the cup final, constantly asking when it is and we weren't even there! So I had to keep saying that we had three games to go, two games to go. It would have hurt telling him that we're not going there. But after the semi-final at Dalymount, I wanted to get home and wake up the next morning to tell him we're in the Cup final.
“You hear it every day when you're out doing the shopping, or out with the kids doing stuff. People express their opinion but they are fans and they are passionate,” he said. “You have to see where they are coming from too. There have been so many ups and downs this year. The Derry City ace was a league title winner with Dundalk under Stephen Kenny and Kenny tried to call him up as Ireland boss. But Duffy had played U21 for Northern Ireland and his international clearance kept getting delayed.
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