The televised live fixtures are as follows:-Southampton v Celtic - Friday, July 18thMiddlesbrough v Celtic - Tuesday, July 22ndCardiff City v Celtic - Thursday, July 24thCeltic v Man City - Wednesday, August 6th
In case you haven’t heard, Setanta Sports, Virgin Media and ITN have joined forces to create Setanta Sports News which is being broadcast on Virgin Media 518 and Sky 435. It is also available on the Setanta website. (more…)
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Just an update on the continuing battle between the digital tv companies here in the UK. It seems that Virgin Media and Setanta have joined forces for the time being with Virgin offering the Setanta channels for free with some of their TV packages. When you take into account the fact that Virgin offers an apparently cheaper Sky Sports (even compared to Sky themselves), this probably makes Virgin the place to go to watch sport.
Setanta have really sprung to the front in the last six months and it is the Premier League rights that make them attractive to the likes of BT and Virgin. It remains to be seen whether this deal from Virgin is as good as it appears but at any rate it is worth over £100 on the face of it. Check out Virgin Media for more on their packages and pricing.
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Dungannon Swifts 1-1 Portadown. Portadown needed a late goal to equalise and come away with one point.Derry City 1 -2 Glentoran. Glentoran shocked Derry City by taking the win at the Brandywell. Glentoran secured their first win.St Patrick’s Athletic 1 – 0 Cork City. With this win St. Pats have secured home advantage in the next round.Linfield 0 – 0 Drogheda United. This one all draw was enough to secure a spot in the semis for Linfield.
In Group 1 Derry City played Linfield at the Brandywell where two late goals meant that both teams shared the points on offer. Final Score: Derry City 2 -2 Linfield.Garry Beckett and Pat McCourt were the goalscorers for Derry, while Aidan O'Kane and Mark Dickson were on target for Linfield.In the other match in this group Drogheda proved too strong for Glentoran and stay in second place after their 2 nil win. Aidan O'Keeffe and Tony Grant were the goal scorers, while Glentoran's Jason Hill was sent off for two bookable offences.In Group 2 St Patrick's Athletic put five past Dungannon Swifts. A result which guarantees St. Pat's a spot in the semis. The goals were scored by Anto Murphy, Mark Quigley, Sean O'Connor, Alan Kirby, and Stephen Brennan.The other Group 2 match also saw quite a number of goals, and unfortunately for Portadown, all seven goals were scored by Cork City. Roy O'Donovan secured a hat-trick, with the other goals coming from Denis Behan(2), John O'Flynn, and J
Drogheda Utd V Linfield - last year's winners were beaten by the Champions from the previous year, with 1 goal separating the two teams. The enjoyable encounter was played before a great crowd, with many visiting supporters making the trip.St Patrick's Athletic V Portadown - This was a perfect start to St. Pat's Setanta Cup as they scored 3 goals to none at Richmond Park.Glentoran V Derry City - A late goal from Kevin McHugh was enough to claim the victory for Derry City, but Derry manager Pat Fenlon was sent into from the dugout after arguing with Glentoran's assistant manager Andy Mathieson.Dungannon Swifts V Cork City - Dungannon started off the brighter of these two teams, but neither could find the net. Final Score: 0-0
