Possible Clues:

• Withdraw (aggressive) claim
• Withdraw argument or avoid confrontation
• Concede defeat, being in lower division once more?
• Not prone to lie thus, withdraw claim
• Face up? Quite the opposite
• Put your money on the county, only to withdraw it
• Abandon former position and support Irish county
• Face up perhaps, but not to a challenge
• Concede defeat with player injured?
• Withdraw opinion or claim