Derry boss optimistic of trouble-free encounters

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Derry boss optimistic of trouble-free encounters


Derry City manager Stephen Kenny is optimistic that his side’s high-profile Setanta Sports Cup meetings with Linfield in the New Year will pass off without any off-field difficulties.

The games, at Windsor Park on February 20th and back at the Brandywell five weeks later, will mark the first competitive fixtures between the sides in more than three decades.


Read more at www.eleven-a-side.com (http://www.eleven-a-side.com/setantacup/irish_soccer_detail.asp?newsid=20421)

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As has been stated on the Derry City forum, this article is factually incorrect. We weren't thrown out of the IL for trouble against Linfield. It was more the destruction of a Ballymena bus by thugs outside the ground, our refusal to allow police into the Brandywell and refusal to play home games away from home (see Davy1's post on the matter here (http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=30950)). I think its a dangerous news item that could possibly help to create trouble at our Linfield games.