Setanta Cup 2013

[razor]

nah that was a free kick, was outside the box, but couldn't believe he gave a free out.The linesman seemed to call it, may have been offiside.
but our lad was hauled to the ground by the jersey, straight red for sure.

[Hitman]

The linesman seemed to call it, may have been offiside.
but our lad was hauled to the ground by the jersey, straight red for sure.

If it was when Danny Morrissey was going through I'm fairly sure it was for a handball just before he was taken down.

[peterpan]

I had a very good view of it and Danny pushed the ball forward with his hand before he was fouled, ref got it right to be fair.

[patrickccfc]

Danny Morrisseys goal against crusaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkmbKxWYePA

[adamd164]

I've seen clearer videos of Bigfoot!

[DannyInvincible]

Interesting read, this...

'When Linfield came to Dublin in 1984….nothing much happened': http://comeheretome.com/2012/03/13/when-linfield-came-to-dublin-in-1984-nothing-much-happened/


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This Irish Times photo shows Shamrock Rovers fans outside Milltown Road following the 1-1 draw in Dublin that saw Rovers knocked out of European football in 1984.

The visit of Belfast’s Linfield to Milltown Road to face Shamrock Rovers in a European Champions Cup clash in 1984 was one of the largest football related security operations in the history of the state. The two-leg draw between the Belfast and Dublin sides made headlines on both sides of the border before a ball had been kicked, with The Irish Times report on the drawing of the two clubs together noting that it was the “spectre of the collision of the Orange and Green” that marked the draw out.

Much of the fear around the class had come out of events in Dundalk in August 1979, when Linfield and Dundalk faced each other at Oriel Park. Almost 500 Gardaí were involved in policing that encounter, and journalist Peter Byrne wrote after the clash that “this was the night when the concept of All-Ireland club football was killed stone dead. Two hours of raw, naked tribalism on the terraces of Oriel Park convinced even the most reformist among us that the dark gospel of the paramilitaries has permeated Irish sport to the point where all attempts at reconciliation are futile.”

Prior to the first round clash at Windsor Park in Belfast, there had been violence at Dalymount Park during a clash between Bohs and the visiting Glasgow Rangers in the same week. Among the Rangers support was a healthy contingent of supporters from Northern Ireland. The clash in Windsor Park on September 20th 1984 was played out before a near silent crowd of 6000, with The Irish Times reporting that “In stark contrast to the turbulent scenes in Dalymount Park 24 hours earlier, there was never the hint of crowd violence. Only a few Union Jacks were in evidence to taunt the visitors and, almost inevitably, there was not one spectator sporting the emblem of Shamrock Rovers to be seen anywhere in the ground.” It ended a nil all draw.

Jim McLaughlin, Shamrock Rovers manager at the time of the fixtures with Linfield, had held the same position at the time of the ‘Linfield Riots’ in Dundalk. Prior to the Rovers games, he stated in the media that: “Some people will attempt to attach a dimension to this fixture that will have nothing to do with football. Relations between the two clubs are good and I can only hope that the fans will have learned from the experiences of Dundalk.”

On September 25th Linfield Supporters Clubs were told by the club that Shamrock Rovers were unwilling to sell them tickets. Newspaper reports suggested that a sizeable group intended to travel tickets or no tickets. This greatly worried the club, as Linfield had found themselves having to play games in Holland following the violence at the time of their trip to Dundalk. Initally, Rovers had offered 1,500 tickets to Linfield supporters, smaller than the away allocation in normal circumstances. The club withdrew this offered allocation, and club chairman Louis Kilcoyle issued a statement which read:


Shamrock Rovers Football Club have advised Linfield FC that there will be no allocation of tickets to Linfield for the second leg of the European Cup tie at Miltown on October 3rd.

This decision has been taken to ensure that the second leg game takes place without incident and in a atmosphere as prevailed as Belfast last Wednesday.

Newspaper build-up to the clash focused on off the pitch matters, and when the clash actually did occur Rovers went out to Linfield, owing to a one-all draw in Dublin. Inside the ground, one newspaper reporter counted sixteen tricolours, and three Union Jacks.

The Irish Times reported on the trip to Dublin undertaken by one Linfield Supporters Club. There were 200 Linfield supporters in Dublin, and as the paper noted it wasn’t until Linfield’s goal their presence was felt. Following the encounter, the sound of ‘The Sash’ could be heard from the travelling contingent, while it was noted Dermot Keely received some abuse from the visitors. “Keeley, you Fenian *******!” was shouted, to which he responded with two fingers.

Outside, there was little in the line of the ‘hooligan’ element expected (or hoped for!) by those in the media. Gardaí in riot gear were met by around 100 Shamrock Rovers fans who threw stones at Gardaí as they awaited the exit of Linfield’s travelling support from the stadium. A Garda sergeant was reported as saying “it was our own who were the gurriers today” following the match. Yet the few dozen youths throwing stones didn’t live up to the newspaper reporting in the lead-up to the clash. Certainly, the violence was not on par with some seen in Irish soccer grounds in the 1980s, for example the disgraceful scenes at Richmond Park in April of 1986 at an FAI Cup Semi-Final between Saint Patrick’s Athletic and Waterford United. The fixation with the Linfield clash no doubt centered around the broader context of north-south relations, and memories of events in Dundalk.

In 1989, Shamrock Rovers fanzine the ‘Glenmalure Gazette’ ran a tongue-in-cheek feature from ‘R.Anglelodge’ on why Linfield supporters were the best in Ireland. It joked that:


Louis Kilcoyne recognised that Linfield fans were the best in Ireland. He didn’t think twice about banning Rovers scumbags from going to the European Cup game in Belfast. He was absolutely correct to let us blues fans go to Milltown. Two weeks before the match we had helped the Huns to try and wreck Dublin. We deserved the chance to have another go at it!

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From 'The Glenmalure Gazette' (March 1989)

Is it just the Rovers-Linfield game that's being televised tonight?

[wonder88]

Looking forward to the game in Tallagh tonight. Are many Linfield fans expected down? Remember listening to the sports reports on Radio 2 on the night of the Bohs v Rangers game; nearly 30 years ago now. Was it not sad that Shelbourne did not hold their game against Rangers in Dublin rather than going over to Birkenhead for it during the Ollie Byrne era.

[TheFonz]

Looking forward to the game in Tallagh tonight. Are many Linfield fans expected down? Remember listening to the sports reports on Radio 2 on the night of the Bohs v Rangers game; nearly 30 years ago now. Was it not sad that Shelbourne did not hold their game against Rangers in Dublin rather than going over to Birkenhead for it during the Ollie Byrne era.

They were given somewhere between 500 and 750 tickets anyway.

[DannyInvincible]

Some footage from the clubs' last encounter in the first 30 seconds of this video: http://balls.ie/football/the-last-time-shamrock-rovers-and-linfield-met/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wsZCcmfV8TA#!

[BonnieShels]

Looking forward to the game in Tallagh tonight. Are many Linfield fans expected down? Remember listening to the sports reports on Radio 2 on the night of the Bohs v Rangers game; nearly 30 years ago now. Was it not sad that Shelbourne did not hold their game against Rangers in Dublin rather than going over to Birkenhead for it during the Ollie Byrne era.

Sigh...

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Really looking forward to this game tonight. Hon the non-Huns!

[DannyInvincible]

Has the security alert on the Letterkenny Road in Derry ended yet, by the way? Heard the club offices in the Brandywell were closed today as a result, but assuming the match is still going ahead...

[patrickccfc]

Has the security alert on the Letterkenny Road in Derry ended yet, by the way? Heard the club offices in the Brandywell were closed today as a result, but assuming the match is still going ahead...
Didnt something like this happen a few years back too when derry were home to drogs and there was a bomb threat nearby? game still went ahead that time i think

[DannyInvincible]

Game's still going ahead. Just saw this on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/derrycityfc/posts/10151759950883906


Tonight's game is definitely still ON.

At the time of writing, the Foyle Road is still closed. However supporters can access the stadium via the Lone Moor Road and the Showgrounds Car Park will be open.

In the light of the traffic restrictions we urge all supporters to leave extra time to travel to/from the game in order to ensure that they arrive in time for kickoff.

Having waited four months for the return of competition action it would be a shame to miss the kick off.

If the situation changes we'll endeavor to keep you up to date....

[DannyInvincible]

Anyone know of any streams for those outside of Ireland? None of the links here appear to be broadcasting anything at the minute: http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/index.html

[Charlie Darwin]

Anyone know of any streams for those outside of Ireland? None of the links here appear to be broadcasting anything at the minute: http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/index.html
http://nirsportz.eu/stream1.html

[DannyInvincible]

Is Winky Murphy still playing football?! What age is he now?

[Fester]

Sligo 1 up Lynch 2'
Derry 1 up Patterson 10'

[DannyInvincible]

Rory Patterson with a free-kick from 30 yards for Derry. Screamer apparently, although it took a bobble in front of Sava.

[Fester]

Rovers 1 up Finn 34'

[DannyInvincible]

Rovers take the lead in Tallaght through Ronan Finn. Poor goalkeeping from Glendinning in the Linfield goal to spill the low free-kick into the path of the alert Finn.

[Sam_Heggy]

Balls, had a Cork, Drogs double.

[Fester]

Sligo Rovers 2 up now Elding with the second

[Fester]

Balls, had a Cork, Drogs double.

Early days yet..

[Fester]

Rovers 2 up

[DannyInvincible]

2-0 to Rovers. Kilduff with a header.

[nigel-harps1954]

Linfield are absolutely terrible.

[peterpan]

Winky is 38

[BonnieShels]

It's been All Rovers.

How old is Winky? Looks about 38. ;-)

Edit: Peterpan makes Winky youthful it seems.

[Fester]

Sligo Rover 4 up now.

[Fester]

Crusaders 0 v 0 Cork City HT

[BonnieShels]

The first mention of "he probably smacked it too well".

GAH!

[peterpan]

According to satanta winky was 38 in the first half and is 39 now... This game is really taking its toll on him!!

[peterpan]

What a strike.....

[Fester]

Linfield get one back 2 - 1 now

[Fester]

Derry City 1 v 1 Drogheda

[eL Bettor]

Setanta commentator loves his Setanta Cup stats. See how many more times does he say "in this competition" before end of match.
For those of you who care that was Linfield's 52nd goal in this competition.

[Fester]

Sligo Rover 5 v 0 Glentoran

[eL Bettor]

5 goals for Kilduff in this competition.

[BonnieShels]

Kilduff again.

3-1 Shams.

[BonnieShels]

5 goals for Kilduff in this competition.

Yer man is fierce annoying.

[Fester]

Sham Rover 3 v 1 Linfields

[Fester]

Crusaders 0 v 1 Cork City (Agg 0-2)

[Fester]

Crusaders 0 v 2 Cork City now....

[eL Bettor]

Rovers currently equaling their biggest ever win in this competition.
Linfield currently equaling their biggest ever defeat in this competition.
Only 2 men have ever scored for a LOI and an IL team in this competition.

[cornflakes]

is this a strong Linfield line up or did they rest players?

[BonnieShels]

Tommy Stewart only man to have played for an IFA and FAI club...

...in this competition.

[Charlie Darwin]

Only 2 men have ever scored for a LOI and an IL team in this competition.


Tommy Stewart only man to have played for an IFA and FAI club...

...in this competition.
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[fionnsci]

Woeful penalty and miss from Linfield there. The rebounding player was also far inside the box by the time it had been kicked, would have been interesting to see if the ref would've allowed it.

[Fester]

Bad peno miss, even worse follow up...

[Fester]

Crusaders get 1 back..