Acheson is home, for now anyway.
Tipperary football has lost a number of soldiers in the last few years, but no loss has affected the Premier County as greatly as the loss of Peter Acheson.
Not long after he captained Liam Kearns’ side to the All-Ireland semi-final in 2017, the Moyle Rovers club man moved out to Dubai for work.
Tipperary football is always working against the tide in a hurling mad county. Men like John, Liam and Noel McGrath would all be some additions to the footballers. Seamus Kennedy went for hurling instead as did Stephen O’Brien for a year.
The unprecedented losses of Colin O’Riordan to the AFL, and Acheson – the county’s two best players hit very hard, however and Tipperary football hasn’t really recovered since.
Acheson’s last game for Tipperary was that semi-final loss to Mayo, the 28-year-old played that game despite breaking his hand the week of the game – that’s a measure of the man Tipperary are missing. In the meantime, he’s been working in business development with an oil and gas company, whenever he’s not playing five a side with Man United legend Mikael Silvestre.
Acheson’s club are back into the Tipperary senior football final this year and they’re bidding for their first title since 2009. Their midfielder and talisman is back in the thick of it in Tipperary.
He flew home from Dubai a couple of weeks ago and he’s been available for Moyle Rovers for the quarter and semi-finals of the county championship.
They went into Sunday’s last four clash against kingpins Clonmel Commercials as 9/5 underdogs, but this was always going to be a tighter game.
They went score for score all the way through the game and with they were level at 1-7 to 0-10 when the clock struck 60. It looked as if the Commericals had snatched it when Tipperary hurler Seamus Kennedy kicked a fine score in the third minute of injury time, only for Moyle Rovers to lift their heads before racing down the other end of the field for Sean Carey to score a late, great winner.
They now have a county final to look forward to against Ardfinnan, who pulled off a shock in beating Loughmore-Castleiney in the other semi.
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