Tag: Northern Irish Football
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Belfast Celtic 0-3 Bangor: No delay in getting the job done
Over the course of two trips to this stage, Glen Road Heights has proved a happy hunting ground for Bangor. After securing a 0-2 success in the Steel and Sons Cup third round to kick off a perfect October, anyone of a Seasider persuasion will be hoping that is a positive omen for November having recorded…
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Belfast Celtic vs Bangor preview (take two): Irish Cup trip to the Lims lies in wait for the winner
Postponed due to a failed pitch inspection, the heavens opened last Saturday morning and left some surfaces around Northern Ireland drenched in water. Unfortunately, the downpour hit Glen Road Heights sufficiently sharply that it was deemed unsafe, and the call was made to delay it to this Saturday where it is hoped conditions will be…
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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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Belfast Celtic vs Bangor preview: A month that closes at the same venue it opened
October, a spell beginning and ending at Glen Road Heights. After prevailing over Belfast Celtic on the first day of the tenth month in the Steel and Sons Cup third round, Bangor return to west Belfast on the penultimate day to face the same opponents in the third stage of the Irish Cup. In the…
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Bangor 2-0 PSNI: Ben and Adam lay down the law as downpour doesn’t distract
The Premier Intermediate League was in full flow on Tuesday night, a complete mid-week programme headlined by the livestreamed clash between Ballymacash Rangers and Lisburn Distillery. Bangor took advantage of an opportunistic comeback by the Whites in that tie, with two second-half goals by two familiar goalscorers securing the Seasiders the spoils against PSNI at…
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Like Coleraine, Ballymena and Glenavon before them, Larne’s title escapade is good for the Irish League
The table-topping side in the Irish Premiership is a non-Belfast team. Granted, some may argue, the only non-Belfast full-time team in the division, but Larne’s presence at the summit of the Irish League is nonetheless significant. Given it is 20 years since a team from outside the Northern Irish capital claimed the Gibson Cup, and…
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Bangor vs PSNI preview: There’s no (ar)resting on laurels after weekend win
After a successful Saturday’s work in the Steel and Sons Cup fourth round this weekend, Bangor’s attentions switch back to the Premier Intermediate League as the players, coaches and supporters brace for this mid-week match-up with PSNI. With a 7:45pm kick-off under the Clandeboye Park floodlights, the Seasiders enter with high hopes of improving the…
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Glentoran II 0-3 Bangor: Seasiders make Ashfield their playground
A trip to Ashfield Boys High School yielded success for Bangor this Saturday, as the Yellows overcame Glentoran II to book their reservation at the quarter-final table of the Steel and Sons Cup. Manager Lee Feeney did not take any chances, selecting a full-strength starting side, and he was rewarded in his hunt for a…
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