Tag: Jim Magilton
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Defences can win titles in the Irish League… but sometimes attack is the best form of it
There’s a classic saying in football that has rung true in many hunts for league glory all over the world across the years. “Attacks win you games, defences win you titles.” First famously coined by the legendary former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who suggested that scoring bucketloads of goals may win you battles…
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Rising star Odhran Casey’s last-gasp heroics for Cliftonville shows spirit goes a long way
It’s fair to say that Ireland’s oldest football club have taken a notion of adding a few years of aging to their supporters in recent times. The same was true on Tuesday night. For a third away game in a row, Cliftonville have made a personal gain in additional time at the expense of an…
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Oft-unsung Ronan Doherty is ready to rise out of Chris Gallagher’s shadow at Cliftonville
It was an eventful week that ended in a flourish for Cliftonville, who continue to put their title credentials on show despite the seemingly incessant rumours linking their stars with moves away in January and the summer. The drawn-out saga over one such, Chris Gallagher, finally met an end when the midfielder’s exit to Larne…
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There’s still a place in the modern domestic game for classic punishers like Joe Gormley
As we have seen throughout the past half-decade or so, the Irish League is an ever-evolving beast and clubs must sometimes be elaborate for the sake of staying competitive. Larne and Glentoran have welcomed on board the investment of Kenny Bruce in 2017 and Ali Pour in 2019 that has allowed both clubs to adopt…
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Larne’s victory over Cliftonville tees them up as the ones to halt Linfield’s irrepressible title surge
Friday night saw two big hitters in action at Inver Park, with Larne and Cliftonville facing off in a game that, although just a third of the way through the season, felt like a defining duel at the top of the table. Starting the day split by as fine a margin as their respective shades…
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Linfield found a calm in a different kind of storm at Solitude… exactly the type champions need
Last week, Storm Babet brought torrents of rain and fierce gusts of wind as it roared into the British Isles. Depending on where you were, flooded streets and felled trees cut the landscape in the calm that followed. But a calm of a different kind could be found amid the ecstasy of a bouncing away…
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