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Mon 07 Jul 2007Hungry Sligo end their long famine Connacht SFC Final/Sligo 1-10 Galway 0-12:After the match and the unstoppable pitch invasion and the famous speech, a group of Sligo folks stood looking at the scoreboard as though it were a holy thing. The fact that it was one of the more ordinary looking score lines in Gaelic games made it all the more miraculous. Hundreds of Sligo football people have tried and given up on trying to figure a way to win the two or three matches in succession that would give them a provincial title.It eluded them all. Through the 1980's and 1990's, Sligo football people looked back at the magical reference year of 1975 with a combination of nostalgia and embarrassment. The importance of that one championship year was beginning to dwarf Ben Bulben. They felt in their hearts that it should not have been this long, that they were better than 32 years of nothing. But they had no way of proving it. Until yesterday.