Category: Featured
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Three players who deserve a call-up to the next NI squad?
The 2022 World Cup qualifiers are fast approaching, with Northern Ireland starting their campaign with a difficult match away in Italy, before facing the USA in a friendly match at Windsor Park. Bulgaria then make the trip to Belfast for the host’s second qualifier of the international break. There are a number of players who…
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Danske Bank Premiership: five fixtures tonight
There is five fixtures in the Danske Bank Premiership tonight, weather permitting, with the following fixtures set to kick off at 19:45 unless otherwise stated: – Portadown v Larne (Tuesday 23rd February 2020 at 19:30 – streamed live on BBC Sport NI) Cliftonville v Ballymena United Carrick Rangers v Coleraine Dungannon Swifts v Glenavon Linfield…
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Danske Bank Premiership: Swifts hope for new manager bounce
There was something of a novelty during the week as all four Danske Bank Premiership matches that were scheduled to take place actually managed to go ahead! The recent freezing weather conditions have caused havoc with an already tight Premiership schedule and it will be interesting to see how the recently postponed games are fitted…
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Danske Bank Premiership: Carrick hope to keep run going against Glenavon
The recent freezing conditions tampered with the Danske Bank Premiership again on Saturday as three games had to be postponed, with Glentoran v Coleraine, Ballymena v Linfield and Warrenpoint v Glenavon all now having to take place at a future date. This presented Larne and Crusaders an opportunity to close the gap on Linfield and…
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Danske Bank Premiership: Blues looking to keep lead at top
Linfield kept their five-point lead at the top of the Danske Bank Premiership intact on Tuesday night despite only managing a draw against bottom side Carrick, their nearest challengers Larne only drew against Portadown and Crusaders away game against Dungannon was postponed due to a frozen pitch. Here is the Danske Bank Premiership table after…
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Danske Bank Premiership: bottom two hope new signings will increase survival chances
The games keep coming thick and fast in the Danske Bank Premiership as we have yet another full set of fixtures to look forward to tonight. You can read up on the games from last weekend HERE as Larne’s poor start to 2021 continued as a draw against Glentoran on Friday night makes it four…
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Carrick just cannot get the win to start their season
Carrick remain firmly at the bottom of the table after a defeat at home to Ballymena. Larne only managed a draw at home to Glentoran but closed the gap at the top to three points. Crusaders are still unable to get a win against the teams around them who will be challengers for the title…
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Danske Bank Premiership: Larne seek return to winning ways
I said earlier this week that Cliftonville v Linfield is a game that rarely disappoints and both teams played out a seven-goal thriller on Tuesday night in a game streamed live on BBC Sport NI, the Reds came out on top in the end by four goals to three. It was David Healy’s Linfield side…
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Danske Bank Premiership: two in form sides meet as the league returns
After a short, enforced break due to the Northern Ireland Covid restrictions the Danske Bank Premiership returns today with a full set of fixtures. Here is a reminder of how the league table currently looks going into today’s games: – POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Larne 10 8 2…