It was a three-peat for the Co. Fermanagh Premier’s who captured the 2018 Orchard Cup for the third year running, playing some brilliant football along the way. Manager, Scott Robinson, is looking forward to the coming weeks and seeing just how good his young charges can get:
“My players, from back to front, were excellent and are developing really well as a group. Now with exams coming to an end we look forward to spending more time on the training field and working harder to make ourselves even better. We had 14 players available today due to a few injuries, so to play two games in one day against teams with full squads and to finish as pick of the bunch, was fantastic for the players and I was able to take a step back and admire them,” Robinson explained.
The tournament organised by Co. Armagh SuperCupNI, is a four team round-robin tournament, with each team playing two matches each. The team with the best results over the two matches are declared winners of the tournament.
Fermanagh faced off against Armagh City U18s in the opener and raced into a three nil lead. Darragh McBrien opened the scoring with a fantastic effort, cutting inside onto his left and curling an effort into the top corner. 
The second came soon after, an excellent Conor Love ball split the back four, with McBrien turning provider for Michael Glynn, whose first-time effort rifled into the top corner. 
Love made it three nil before Armagh secured a goal of their own just before the interval. On the hour mark Fermanagh won a penalty with McBrien converting with aplomb. 
The drama was not over yet as City were awarded two penalties, scoring the first, with Fermanagh’s Sam McDonald saving the second.
In their second and final game Fermanagh squared off against Co. Armagh Premiers. It was the Ernemen who started the brightest, an excellent cross-field ball from Dean Corrigan found Eimhin Curran on the right-hand side and his first time strike went beyond the Armagh goalkeeper.
The first half then swayed back and forth as Armagh equalised through a simple cross and finish, before another McBrien special saw his 25 yards free kick fly past the keeper. Armagh made it 2-2 with a set piece of their own just before half time.
The second half began with Corrigan hitting a first time volley past the helpless Armagh keeper to restore the lead. Again, Armagh fought back to level. But fittingly it was left to the brilliant McBrien to secure the win as he picked up the ball on the right, before beating two men, cutting in along the endline and hammering to the bottom corner to seal a 4-3 victory and a third successive Orchard Cup for Fermanagh.