Tag: Northern Ireland
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Ballymacash Rangers vs Bangor preview: A face-off of the two early pace-setters
This weekend, at least one perfect record will fall as the two table-toppers who between them are yet to drop a point in league play face off. In the return to Premier Intermediate League action three weeks on from the last fixture, Bangor make the trip to Lisburn to face newly-promoted Ballymacash Rangers. It is…
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Bangor Ladies season review: The means to go on to even better things
The season just passed must surely rank among the most important in the history of Bangor Ladies. It was one where major developments were made on and off the pitch, where there were big wins and successes to savour, where there were milestones and markers to revel in and where there was an acceleration of…
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Bangor 4-0 Strabane Athletic: No drama in a welcome return to winning ways
Six third-tier teams entered the second round of the Irish Cup. An upset-laden first round indicated that more shocks and surprises could perhaps have been on the horizon, however all six who entered their ties secured safe passage to the next stage of Irish football’s oldest cup competition. That included Bangor, who soundly saw Strabane…
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Bangor vs Strabane Athletic preview: The cup adventure continues
A new type of test awaits for the Seasiders this Saturday afternoon (1:30pm kick-off), where Strabane Athletic visit Clandeboye Park in an eye-catching Irish Cup second round clash. Following Cliftonville and Annagh United – high-flyers in the respective first and second-tiers of Northern Irish football – comes a club from the fourth-division Intermediate League. Not…
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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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Northern Irish stadia and facility upgrades are required imminently
Don’t take this opinion piece the wrong way. It is obviously tremendous news that we are seeing reports by clubs of full attendances for matches. The attraction of the product, heightened exponentially from a decade ago, is such that greater crowds gathering to watch their local team in Northern Ireland is entirely justifiable. However, caveats…
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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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Bangor 0-0 Cliftonville (4-5 on penalties): Shield heartbreak but still a proud night
As they say, it was so near yet so far. Bangor took Cliftonville all the way to spot-kicks in the County Antrim Shield first round after a goalless draw in regulation, with the Reds prevailing in sudden death to secure their progression to the quarter-finals. It was a gallant effort from the hosts that did…
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