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Only the gifted can truly charm a football audience. While there is always much to admire in a flying full-back, crafty centre half, tidy midfielder, or an opportunistic frontrunner, the skilful artist is the favoured protagonist. That is exactly why Jay O’Shea is capturing the hearts of Terryland Park regulars.

THE BLACK Country in the English West Midlands - so called because of the Industrial Revolution and the outcroppings of the coal scarring the soil black - is concentrated in and around the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton.

Crucial contests and Galway United has been the 2008 cocktail. Two more will be added to the list in the next six days. A trip to Richmond Park for a combat with St Patrick’s Athletic and an FAI Cup semi-final with Derry City are brimful of importance. When such matches are arriving thick and fast a footballer’s life glimmers with possibility.

Despite slipping down to eighth place on the final day of an interesting League of Ireland season, Galway United can still reflect on a year in which so many youngsters acquired top-flight experience.