Stefan Campbell

HOME advantage could prove crucial in the opening rounds of the Armagh Senior Football Championship, which kicks off this weekend.

THE sight of Jack McCarron hobbling from the field just a few minutes into Saturday night’s Division One defeat to Armagh could assume greater significance for Monaghan as this League campaign wears on.

KEY BATTLE Stefan Campbell (Armagh) v Eoghan Ban Gallagher (Donegal) CAMPBELL is the man of the moment after a superb display against Tyrone last week.

IF Armagh fail to back up their performance on Sunday, then beating Tyrone last weekend was all for nothing, says half-forward dynamo Stefan Campbell.

Ethan Rafferty: Saved well from McKernan but Conor McKenna netted the rebound.

LAST month’s intense Division One clash between Armagh and their auld enemy Tyrone reached its pivotal moment when the Orchardmen were awarded a second half penalty.

WITH Rian O’Neill, Stefan Campbell, Rory Grugan, Oisin O’Neill and Jemar Hall all showing good form, the Armagh forward unit is rated by many – including Antrim manager Enda McGinley – as the best in Ulster.

IF you stumbled upon the end of a rainbow and there sat a pot of gold with your name on it, would you stop to question where the money had come from, or would you take it and ask later? Sport and money will always have a relationship in which the lines and blurred.

BACK in the halcyon days of pre-lockdown when the Armagh footballers were scorching a path towards Division One, the biggest dilemma in Stefan ‘Soupy’ Campbell’s life was how he could attend his daughter’s Holy Communion Day and play against Derry in the Ulster Championship on the same day.