Love Is The Drog

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On March 20 2005, the visit of Gary Kelly's Leeds United to Drogheda brought together two teams on very different trajectories
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On March 20 2005, the visit of Gary Kelly's Leeds United to Drogheda brought together two teams on very different trajectories

Twelve years after his last playing appearance in his hometown, Kelly brought a now promotion-chasing Leeds United to United Park.

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Drogheda United’s Damien Lynch - an FA Youth Cup winner with Leeds in 1997 - shields the ball from a Leeds player during the match. PHOTO CREDIT: Newsfile

The matchday programme, Drogs Digest, promised much. While this was not the Leeds United team who a little less than four years earlier had contested a UEFA Champions League semi-final, there were still some stellar household names to excite supporters.

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