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Mon 07 Jul 2007Players deliver on a cold winter's promiseThey started the year as nobody's favourites and that suited them fine. Sometime last winter, the footballers of Sligo sat down in a cold dressing room and made themselves some promises.Eamon O'Hara must have heard those speeches before. He has been through the isolated days of glory and more frequent afternoons of absolute humiliation that have characterised Sligo football.