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Posted: **Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:46 pm**

They have teams that try to play football...not football teams though!

Kazza 1 supports Glentoran from East Belfast.They're probably the second best team in N Ireland,still cr@p though!

Sorry Kazza!

Posted: **Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:47 pm**

Igor Zidane wrote:Roberts what are you on ace , let it lie now lad it causes to much grief.

How does it cause grief!

:laugh:

Posted: **Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:02 pm**

The Ace1983 wrote:
Mikz wrote::nod Linfield V Cliftonville would be a much smaller version of Celtic V Rangers

So it's not so much a football match, more of a religious war revival session!

Something like that..but however -if they decide to play with a white ball in the snow it adds a monty python feel to the game and eases tension.

Posted: **Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:13 pm**

5 Teams in Belfast are
Linfield (Home: Windsor Park)
Glentoran (The Oval)
Crusaders (Seaview)
Cliftonville (Solitude)
Donegal Celtic (Donegal Celtic Park)

Posted: **Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:15 pm**

The biggest rivalry are actually Linfield & Glentoran, not Linf & Cliftonville, not really strong contenders

Posted: **Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:03 am**

Well my local team are Carrickfergus Rangers (although im a bit sheepish to admit it) and not to far from Belfast itself.

Posted: **Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:42 pm**

jkop wrote:Well my local team are Carrickfergus Rangers (although im a bit sheepish to admit it) and not to far from Belfast itself.

Sheepish? They arent that bhaa aa aad :;):

Whatever happened to carrickfergus comrades brother?

Posted: **Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:16 pm**

steviec wrote:5 Teams in Belfast are
Linfield (Home: Windsor Park)
Glentoran (The Oval)
Crusaders (Seaview)
Cliftonville (Solitude)
Donegal Celtic (Donegal Celtic Park)

As steviec said there are 5 that are Belfast based. Glentoran, Linfield, Cliftonville, Crusaders and Donegal Celtic. The rest of the Carnegie premier league is made up of 11 other teams from the North..... Portadown, Ballymena Utd, Lisburn Distillery, Newery City, Dungannon Swifts, Larne, Coleraine, Loughgall, Glenavon, Armagh City and Limavady Utd. Each team plays each other twice a season (not counting cup matchs etc), stangely enough thats the same as the Premiership...... All matches are played on a Saturday, never a Sunday. Cup matches are usually played mid week, then the finals at the weekend.
There is rivalry between Linfield and Cliftonville, but nowhere near as much as there is between Rangers and Celtic. Linfields biggest rivals are Glentoran. Although its not a religious thing. It more over whos ther better team.
There was one match played with a white ball when it was snowing. It was Boxing Day 1998, when Glentoran played Linfield (they always play on Boxing Day) the orange ball was lost at half time and they had to play the reminder of the match with a white ball. But hey, at least we made it onto a Question of Sport!!!! But, these things happen, get over it.
Irish league football is a day out for a lot of families in Northern Ireland. Although most of them do support teams in the Premiership, most cant afford to get to them. It is also dying because a lot of people cant be ar$ed supporting their local team, because they see it as cr@p football. I go to matches because I support my local team. I do not see it as an excuse to go out and dig someone. I see it as a day out and to meet up with friends and watch a football game. I find it really funny that most of the people who run down Irish League football down are always the ones, who for some reason, always end up with tickets to watch Northern Ireland play and then when they beat someone like Spain, they go on about how good our wee team is. I know that most of the lads playing for NI play in English or Scottish leagues now, but the most of them started out in the Irish Leagues.
Glentoran is celebrating 125 years as a team next year and we are at this moment trying to get Premiership teams to come and play us in friendlys next year. So far we have got a few confirmed teams who are more than happy to come over and play us. So what happens if Liverpool is one of them, will you darken the turnsiles of the Oval then?? I dont think so. After all its only cr@p Irish league football..........

Barry mate, theres no offence taken

jkop good luck tonight against Dundela!!!!

Posted: **Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:32 pm**

Id say some of us would go to the oval if a decent team were playing , not a problem , just to see them get a lesson and have a laugh .
Why do ya say 'get over it' about the white ball in the snow thing ?
I cant think of any really good players playing in England who came through the irish league, most get snapped up a lot earlier than that. It doesnt say much for whats left behind now does it :laugh:

Posted: **Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:02 pm**

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:34 pm**

khan01 wrote:good

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:24 pm**

According to Manhattan's sources, MK Dons will be relocating to Belfast and will be known as FC MK Belfast Wimbledon Dons.

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:25 pm**

The Manhattan Project wrote:According to Manhattan's sources, MK Dons will be relocating to Belfast and will be known as FC MK Belfast Wimbledon Dons.

Heard that rumour years ago, but haven't anything about it lately.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:30 pm**

fivecups wrote:
The Manhattan Project wrote:According to Manhattan's sources, MK Dons will be relocating to Belfast and will be known as FC MK Belfast Wimbledon Dons.

Heard that rumour years ago, but haven't anything about it lately.

was strongly rumoured before they relocated to Milton Keynes, seriously cant see this happening tbh!

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