Tag: Championship
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Bangor 2-2 Limavady United: Good-spirited draw as champions make Tuesday night return
Supporters were treated to a midweek bonanza at Clandeboye Park, when the homecoming champions Bangor played out an engaging and entertaining draw with Limavady United. Even though the hosts’ status as third-flight kings is now all but a mathematical certainty, there remains a willingness to play on the front foot and achieve what unfulfilled remnants…
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Larne and Glentoran show, in very different ways, how much transparency means to Irish League supporters
On Saturday evening, following their team’s ninth defeat in the past dozen matches, a congregation of Glentoran supporters crowded outside the ground with a clear message – for first-team manager Mick McDermott to “get out of our club”. It was quite a shift in tone from earlier in the season, when the Glens started in…
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There are few better candidates than Niall Currie to keep Portadown up
The majority of predictors prior to this Premiership season had Portadown as a favourite to struggle. A team who survived courtesy only of emerging on the right side of the relegation/promotion play-off last term, while Paul Doolin was widely lauded for securing that two-legged success over local rivals Annagh United in May, it is fair…
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The gap between the Premiership bottom-six and Championship top-half has never been narrower
In this mid-week’s Northern Irish cup action, there were two notable upsets of Premiership sides by top-half Championship teams. Niall Currie marked his return to former club Carrick Rangers for the first time since his departure from the Amber Army last year with an emphatic 1-4 win with east Belfast outfit Dundela in the County…
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Bangor 0-4 Annagh United: It was just one of those days
Not every field is lined with strawberries. A tough test it always was in prospect for Bangor in the BetMcLean League Cup with the 2nd-placed side in the Championship – and only off the top on goal difference – coming to town, and it lived up to that billing from the outset. Annagh United secured…
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Bangor vs Annagh United preview: The League Cup beckons
Following the postponement of the weekend’s football after the sad passing of Her Majesty The Queen last Thursday, it will have been a full week between fixtures by the time Bangor face high-flying Annagh United in the BetMcLean League Cup tonight (7:45pm kick-off). In the first round of this tournament, third in line of the…
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