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Women’s Premiership: Cliftonville hit six to maintain perfect record
Cliftonville continued their charge towards the Women’s Premiership title with a 6-0 win over Larne at Inver Park.
Kirsty McGuinness opened the scoring in the seventh minute, and Carla Devine doubled the advantage from close range three minutes later.
Louise McDaniel added a third soon after the restart before a flurry of late goals added some gloss to the scoreline.
Caitlin McGuinness netted in the 81st minute before captain Kelsie Burrows made it five with a header.
Northern Ireland midfielder Marissa Callaghan completed the scoring in injury-time with a long-range effort.
The result moves Cliftonville six points clear of reigning champions Glentoran, who have a game in hand.
Cliftonville host their title rivals in their penultimate game of the season on Sunday, 6 October.
The Reds have a 100% winning record from their 13 league matches this season, while the Glens’ sole defeat came at the hands of Cliftonville.
Larne remain in eighth place following the defeat.
Paul Scally has been voted off the board at Gillingham after 29 years at the club.
The former chairman sold his majority stake to American businessman Brad Galinson in December 2022 but continued to serve as a non-executive director.
He was officially voted out of the position by shareholders on Thursday after Galinson called a meeting at Priestfield Stadium.
“We are very frustrated with how little we can say about it,” Galinson told a fan forum event on Thursday evening.
“Mr Scally was removed as a director both at the football club and GFC Holdings, so that was concluded. It’s been a difficult process.”
It ends the 69-year-old’s association with the club with immediate effect.
Gillingham were relegated to League Two in 2022 after nine seasons in League One.
They are aiming to gain promotion this season, and sit in second place before their home game against Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
England interim manager Lee Carsley says the Three Lions “have to be courageous at times” after his attacking line-up failed to impress in a 2-1 defeat by Greece.
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In their latest Nations League fixture Northern Ireland will take on Belarus in Hungary on Saturday, the neutral venue the result of Uefa restrictions on the hosts. Fifty years ago, it was Northern Ireland playing in homes away from home with no international football staged in Belfast between October 1971 and April 1975. BBC Sport NI looks back on the side’s nomadic years.
Sammy McIlroy still vividly remembers what it was like to see George Best in the flesh for the first time.
While the two would later become Manchester United and Northern Ireland team-mates, for a 13-year-old to watch the soon-to-be Ballon d’Or winner against Scotland at Windsor Park in October 1967 was “absolutely mesmerising”.
“To this day I can still see things George did with the ball,” remembers the midfielder who went on to win 88 Northern Ireland caps before managing his country.
“I’ll never forget it. The crowd, the atmosphere, it was electric.
“I’d never seen anything like that, a player with the ball tied to his boots. It just made me want to go back home and get the ball out on the street.”
It would be a rare privilege soon denied to the people of Northern Ireland.
By the time of McIlroy’s own international debut against Spain in a Euro ’72 qualifier just five years later, Northern Ireland were the “home” team in a game staged at Hull City’s Boothferry Park, an arrangement enabled by Terry Neill being the player-manager of both sides.
The early 1970s provided the bloodiest years of the Troubles, the name given colloquially to the decades-long sectarian conflict in the country and, after a 1-1 draw against the USSR in October 1971, Northern Ireland was deemed unsafe to host international football.
“To be honest, I was devastated it wasn’t in Belfast,” says McIlroy of the 1-1 draw with Spain, the first of 18 consecutive fixtures played outside of Northern Ireland.
“I was delighted to play, to make my debut for Northern Ireland, it just took the gloss off it that it wasn’t in Belfast in front of my home fans. That was very, very sad.”
During the following years Northern Ireland would play in front of a small mix of expats and curious locals, using Goodison Park, Highfield Road, Hillsborough and Craven Cottage just to fulfil their World Cup ’74 qualifying fixtures, as well as those in the British Home Nations Championship.
Goalkeeper Angus Gunn is injured.
So are right-backs Aaron Hickey and Nathan Patterson. And three starting central defenders in the shape of Jack Hendry, Scott McKenna and Kieran Tierney.
Second-choice left-back Greg Taylor is hobbled too.
Lewis Ferguson, John McGinn and Stuart Armstrong will be at home instead of in the Scotland midfield.
And strikers Tommy Conway and Lawrence Shankland are absent too.
It leaves the squad looking alarmingly undermanned, but can you eke a coherent XI out of the players who are left behind?
Getty ImagesScotland fans will only be able watch upcoming Nations League football matches against Croatia and Portugal on YouTube.
Norwegian broadcaster Viaplay holds the rights to all of the Scotland mens team’s competitive matches until 2028 – but last year decided to scale back its UK football operation.
The Nations League qualifying matches will now only be available on the ViaPlay YouTube channel.
Steve Clarke’s side faces Croatia in Zagreb on Saturday at 17:00 before taking on Portugal at Hampden on Tuesday at 19:45.
As well as the Scotland men’s matches, Viaplay held the rights to show the Scottish League Cup and URC rugby when it announced it would end all coverage of UK sports.
The Nordic media group then sold its UK sporting division back to Premier Sports earlier this year.
The transaction included its share of the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup, but did not include the rights to Uefa’s international competitions.
Getty ImagesViaplay sold the rights to Scotland’s last double header against Portugal and Poland to ITVX but has decided not to sell to another broadcaster for this round of fixtures.
BBC Scotland had been close to agreeing a deal on the last round of fixtures before a deal was struck with ITVX.
Viaplay declined to confirm if future matches would be sub-contracted to other broadcasters,
A spokesperson said: “The games will be made available on YouTube. As you might understand we cannot comment any further on any potential negotiations.”
The last time a Scotland match wasn’t available on linear television was a friendly match against Poland in 2014.
Passionate time
Scotland’s housing minister Paul McLennan MSP, a member of the Tartan Army, said he was “concerned” about the matches not being shown on TV.
He said: “One of the big issues is making sure that the fans can watch Scotland on terrestrial TV as much as they possibly can.
“I get to as many home games as I can, get to some away games but actually watching Scotland is a really passionate time.”
Scotland are set to welcome Croatia to Hampden to 15 November before playing in Poland on 18 November.
BBC Scotland and ITV have been asked for comment.
“It’s difficult in international games – you don’t have a lot of time to implement your style of play, and I know exactly the way he wants to play. We’ve seen some clips of the way he wants to play and tomorrow it’s about us, how we can cancel that out.
“I know he wants to play good football as we did at Burnley, especially that first season. But it’s always difficult when you only have four or five training sessions, so it’s definitely going to take time for him to implement his style on the team.”
The start of Bellamy’s tenure has rejuvenated Wales, with a bold new style of play apparent during last month’s opening goalless draw with Turkey, followed by a 2-1 win in Montenegro.
Wales are clearly more aggressive off the ball than they were under Bellamy’s predecessor Rob Page, while they are also more creative and dynamic in possession.
“We have had discussions about it but he’s only two games in and the way he wants to play perfect football is not there,” Gudmundsson added.
“So we have to be wary at what comes to us. The pitch could be trouble as well, as it was in Montenegro. The way he wants to play was not possible there. Against Turkey, you saw more of the way he wants to play.
“It will be interesting. We have looked at the way they want to play and we’ll definitely do everything to cancel that out and implement our style on the game as we are playing at home.”
Iceland started their Nations League campaign with a 2-0 win at home to Montenegro before losing 3-1 in Turkey.
Fiorentina forward Albert Gudmundsson was acquitted of sexual assault charges in Reykjavik on Thursday and is now eligible to play for the national team.
He has not played for Iceland since scoring in their Euro 2024 play-off final defeat by Ukraine in March.
Iceland boss Age Hareide said he did not know if it was possible for the 27-year-old to line up against Wales, with Turkey’s visit to Reykjavik on Monday a more realistic date for his potential return.
“We have to call Fiorentina and ask for that,” said Hareide. “We are late anyway, so it could be impossible. We don’t know. We will have to wait and see.”
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