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The 1970 Leinster Final

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I have been asked to find this out to settle a friendly argument One man in my local says Meath wore an all blue strip in the 1970 Leinster final v Offaly the other says all green It was the Mickey Fay 2 goal 80 minute game where we came back from 10 points down at ht to win The most authoritative source I know says blue yet two players on the squad insist green Can anyone help denniswise (Meath) - Posts: 101 - 05/06/2023 13:04:55 2484158 Link
Meath played in blue and won 2-22 to 5-12. Offaly scored the first point of the 2nd half to go 11 points up. Spoofer (Meath) - Posts: 48 - 06/06/2023 07:08:22 2484255 Link
Replying To denniswise: "I have been asked to find this out to settle a friendly argument One man in my local says Meath wore an all blue strip in the 1970 Leinster final v Offaly the other says all green It was the Mickey Fay 2 goal 80 minute game where we came back from 10 points down at ht to win The most authoritative source I know says blue yet two players on the squad insist green Can anyone help" According to my late farther many years ago who told me Meath wore the blue of Leinster. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/06/2023 09:03:14 2484274 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "According to my late farther many years ago who told me Meath wore the blue of Leinster." Leinster didn't wear blue that was the Munster colours Leinster wore green denniswise (Meath) - Posts: 101 - 06/06/2023 09:54:15 2484285 Link
There's footage of the 1970 All Ireland final on youtube, where Mícheál O'Hehir mentions Meath wearing all green jerseys and shorts vs Kerry. Maybe that's where some confusion came from? CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1646 - 06/06/2023 13:24:46 2484402 Link
Replying To denniswise: "Leinster didn't wear blue that was the Munster colours Leinster wore green" That's true could have totally taken dad up wrong. . Again before my time. But seemingly there was a blue strip royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/06/2023 14:34:34 2484425 Link