Tag: Steel and Sons Cup
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Why cup-heavy and irregular Amateur League schedule is in desperate need of change
It’s April, the clocks have moved forward an hour and, in Northern Ireland football terms, that marks a particularly significant time in the season below the Irish League. It’s a point that is largely defined by catching up. That’s to say that in the Northern Amateur Football League, Ballymena and Provincial Intermediate League and Mid-Ulster…
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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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A new stadium for Ards would be the cherry on top of a rising Peninsula football scene
It’s over 20 years since Ards left their long-standing Castlereagh Park home and, as 2023 comes to a close, they remain without a permanent place to call their own. Perhaps for not much longer, though. After spells playing their football at Cliftonville’s Solitude in north Belfast, Dixon Park in Ballyclare and Carrick Rangers’ Taylors Avenue,…
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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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All-Amateur League Semi-Final line-up in Steel and Sons Cup adds an extra-special dimension to a historic competition
Without so much as a semi-final ball being kicked, it has already been a historic campaign for Amateur League clubs in the Steel and Sons Cup. Indeed, as we enter the last-four of a competition that carries more significance than most, we already knew that, going into the quarter-finals, the winner would hail from the…
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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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Bangor FC Stat Attack 2023: Who tops the charts in the Seasider rankings?
Another season has come and gone, and this term proved to be one of Bangor’s all-time greats on the back of securing a second league-and-cup double in the span of four years. Many memorable moments were delivered that will be as cherished by the players as they will the supporters, and a 70-point Premier Intermediate…
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