Tag: North Belfast
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Linfield haven’t been bogged down by haves and have nots… it’s a pure winning mentality
The inevitability of Linfield Football Club strikes again. Despite key bodies being unavailable, despite the chips appearing to be down, despite the outside financial investment around them, there has never been any withering of their title ambitions. It’s the way David Healy’s team are built. They never make excuses for themselves, even in moments like…
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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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Comber Rec and Crumlin Star go the distance to set up a tasty Steel and Sons Final showdown
The Steel and Sons Final line-up has been decided for another year, and the two teams that will jostle to make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year for themselves and their supporters have been deduced. Through six rounds of competition, all cup hopefuls bar two within the intermediate County Antrim FA sphere have…
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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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Newington deserve a place to finally call their own… and the local area benefits hugely from it
One debate that rumbles around the Irish League surrounds the stadiums that clubs play their games at and the features of said venues. Astro or grass? Seats or terraces? Wooden fence or walled perimeter? Sometimes, they are even centred on location; what the backdrop is, whether you get a better view watching from the side…
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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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