Tag: Limavady United
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The Championship can bring you up and pull you down… but you’ll always be back for more
It’s been one hell of a season in the Playr-Fit Championship. A league that literally has it all… where no holds are barred, where nothing is off the table, where to expect the unexpected would be to somehow insinuate there were even expectations in the first place. And it is dramatic until the dying embers.…
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Removal of post-split schedule misaligns Premier Intermediate from rest of Irish League
There’s been much change in the Playr-Fit Premier Intermediate League however you see it. What was a 12-team league, in alignment with the Premiership and Championship at least in respect of its size, is now a restructured 14-team division as of the summer of 2023. As we all know, administration was the domineering talking point…
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Bunched-up PIL summit and big twists tee up tense title hunt to go right to the wire
The Playr-Fit Premier Intermediate League promotion race took some fresh turns at the weekend, thus a climactic end to the campaign is in the pipeline with the prize of dining among the ranks of senior-status football in 2024/25. A couple of crunch clashes between top-five rivals, namely Armagh City’s hosting of leaders Limavady United and…
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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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Intermediate Finals prove pulsating affairs as three regional champions confirmed for 2023
The festive regional Finals have now been decided, and what proved a Christmas cracker on the 25th were followed by two rather more one-sided scorelines on Boxing Day that capped off a trio of prestigious and long-standing intermediate tournaments. The goings-on at Seaview appeared to swing one way and the other before a thriller extra-time…
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Festive trio of regional intermediate Finals over Christmas and Boxing Day will serve up a treat
The festive football schedule is heading into peak season – and an enduring staple of the calendar is the regional cup Finals which take place between Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Headlined on the 25th December by the Steel and Sons Cup match-up that fans and followers flock to Seaview for in their thousands, the…
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The team that wins the Premier Intermediate League is the one best prepared for battle
In the Premier Intermediate League this past weekend, two of the expected big hitters of the division locked horns when Warrenpoint Town travelled to face Ballymacash Rangers. It proved a tight affair at The Bluebell, with frontman Junior Shotayo putting the ‘Point into the lead three minutes after the half-time restart before ‘Cash captain Jordan…
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Free-scoring Limavady United have a familiarity on their side that could hand them a promotion
Limavady United’s goal glut to start the Premier Intermediate League campaign has come under the spotlight – and not without reason. The Roesiders have started the new third-tier campaign in an impressive vein; with just six matches played, they have already scored an astonishing 28 goals, scooping up 15 out of a possible 18 points…
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