Launching ‘The Great Game’
No one can accuse us as being a club that is stuck in its ways. Always determined and forever inventive, we have recently announced that as part of our annual Sarsfields Club Day on the last Saturday in June, we will attempt to break a Gaelic Football Guinness World Record.
We will host ‘The Great Game’, aiming to break the world record for the greatest number of people taking part in a Gaelic Football Match. This will see players from under 8 girls and boys right up to retired footballers take part in one continuous game at our home ground, Clanabogan Park.
“It’s a huge undertaking for the members of one club and we’ll need the help of teams nearby, clubs from further afield in Tyrone and indeed those from neighbouring counties to break the current world record of 399 participants” says Eoin McGread, Event Coordinator. He continues, “We’ve been kicking this idea around for quite some time, the date is now set, the attempt has been registered with Guinness and Croke Park has been notified. It’s all systems go!”
We will be writing to club secretaries in the coming weeks with details of the event including an opportunity for each club to use the record breaking attempt to raise some funds for each of their respective youth teams.
“We will anchor the feat around Lá na gClub, Drumragh’s Day of the Club. So as everyone breaks for the summer, why shouldn’t we in Tyrone break a world record” adds club chairman Adrian O’Kane. “We extend a warm invitation to all those teams and individuals that wish to take part.”
Pictured below are some of our Minors with some Tyrone Stars who helped to launch the event.
