Antrim hurling great Neil McManus has called on the county’s footballers to drop their threat to boycott their Ulster SFC quarter-final against Armagh if it's not played at Corrigan Park.

Andy McEntee's charges have been granted home advantage for the mouth-watering tie with the All-Ireland champions, but Ulster GAA is expected to move the tie to a bigger venue due to Corrigan Park's limited capacity. Indeed, it's believed that the number of season tickets holders in Armagh exceed the West Belfast venue's capacity.

"I love Corrigan Park; I really like playing there,” McManus said on RTÉ’s Allianz League Sunday.

“Whenever we made it our home as a county ground, it really stood to us and our performances there have been really good so I can fully understand why the Antrim county board, the Antrim football management, the Antrim football players all want to play it there.

"We have to come to a solution; we want as many people as we can to be able to watch the games. It’s only fair that Armagh fans and Antrim fans get to watch that game. How do we accommodate them in a ground that can only fit, three, three and-a-half-thousand maybe?"

"How would you pick how many fans get to go and how many from Antrim and how many from Armagh? It could be a very tough situation for both counties to be in.

“Whatever the outcome is, it’ll have to be something that does facilitate as many fans as possible."

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