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BBC News
04-07-2025
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- BBC News
Charity Shield: Linfield take on Dungannon Swifts
Update: Date: 19:43 BST Title: What they said Content: Linfield v Dungannon Swifts (19:45 BST) Linfield defender Euan East: "Spirits are high in the camp and we want to get going again and try to retain what we did last year. "It's good to get into a competitive game so quickly. You need that competitive edge to a game that that will give us. It's a good way to start the season. "Dungannon always give you a hard game and we know they will always be up for it." Dungannon winger Thomas Maguire: "It's a bit of a bonus having this game to look forward to. It's not a friendly, there's something to play for against good opposition on a good pitch with something on the line. "Everyone is looking forward to the game and then just kicking on and hopefully it will stand us in good stead for Europe." Update: Date: 19:39 BST Title: Team news Content: Linfield v Dungannon Swifts (19:45 BST) The first team news of the season is in! For David Healy's side, Chris Johns is back between the sticks having been dropped in favour of David Walsh midway through last season while Jamie Mulgrew wears the armband as usual. Rodney McAree gives three players their competitive debut as Peter Maguire, Tiernan Kelly and Mal Smith all start with Gael Bigirimana captaining the side after Dean Curry's retirement at the end of last season. Linfield: Johns, East, Millar, Allen, Hall, Archer, Mulgrew (C), McGee, Fitzpatrick, Morrison, Orr Substitutes: Walsh, Roscoe, Whiteside, Shields, Offord, McKee, Brown, McCullough, Annett, McKay Dungannon Swifts: Dunne, P. Maguire, Marron, Galvin, Dillon, Glenny, Kelly, T. Maguire, Smith, Wallace, Bigirimana (C) Substitutes: Henderson. Glass, S. Scott, J. Scott, King, Boyd, Alves, McGinty, McAleese, McAllister Linfield v Dungannon Swifts Update: Date: 19:36 BST Title: How did they get here? Content: Linfield v Dungannon Swifts (19:45 BST) Linfield secured their place in this year's Charity Shield by emphatically lifting the Gibson Cup for a record-extending 57th time. The Blues built an unassailable lead before the five sets of post-split fixtures and finished 22 points ahead of second-placed finishers Larne. The south Belfast side go into the game boosted by the news that manager David Healy has signed a three-year extension to his contract as boss. Dungannon followed up their hugely impressive fourth-place finish in the Premiership by collecting the Irish Cup for the first time in their history. The early-May decider with holders Cliftonville ended in a 1-1 draw after extra time, but Rodney McAree's side prevailed 4-3 in a penalty shootout. Update: Date: 19:31 BST Title: Here we go Content: Linfield v Dungannon Swifts (19:45 BST) It feels like yesterday the Irish Premiership season came to a close, but a new campaign is now upon us. It's time for the Charity Shield to kick things off and Iris Cup winners Dungannon Swifts take on runaway Irish Premiership champions Linfield. We'll have live updates right here so you can follow along. Thanks for joining us.
Belfast Telegraph
24-06-2025
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- Belfast Telegraph
Euan East reveals what Linfield think of Damien Duff's shock Shelbourne exit ahead of Euro clash
Defender Euan East has insisted that he and his fellow Linfield players will not be distracted by the managerial change at Champions League first qualifying round opponents Shelbourne.
BBC News
28-04-2025
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- BBC News
Four Linfield players in NIFWA Team of the Year
Four players from Irish Premiership champions Linfield have been named in the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Team of the Orr, Euan East, Joel Cooper and Matthew Fitzpatrick make up the Blues' quartet after they helped Linfield win the Gibson Cup for a record-extending 57th time before the Orr has impressed in his first year with the senior team and has also been nominated for Young Player of the has been a virtual ever-present for David Healy's side in their defence alongside East, who has excelled in a number of different who is up for Irish Premiership Player of the Year, scored 19 league goals in his final season for Linfield before his departure to Coleraine in the summer, whilst Fitzpatrick found the net 12 have three players in the team whilst Cliftonville and Dungannon Swifts each have two goalkeeper Daniel Gyollai, defender Kodi Lyons-Foster and midfielder Fuad Sule have all been included from Declan Devine's side who finished third and reached the BetMcLean League Cup left-back Adam Glenny and midfielder Gael Bigirimana, who is also nominated for Player of the Year, feature after helping Rodney McAree's side to a fourth-place league finish and an Irish Cup captain Rory Hale was named in the team alongside Player of the Year nominee Joe Gormley, who finished as the league's joint top goal scorer with 20 duo were key to Cliftonville winning the BetMcLean Cup in March and they will look to win a cup double when the Reds face the Swifts in the Irish Cup final on 3 Team of the Year: Daniel Gyollai (Glentoran), Matthew Orr (Linfield), Kodi-Lyons Foster (Glentoran), Euan East (Linfield), Adam Glenny (Dungannon Swifts), Gael Bigirimana (Dungannon Swifts), Fuad Sule (Glentoran), Rory Hale (Cliftonville), Joel Cooper (Linfield), Joe Gormley (Cliftonville), Matthew Fitzpatrick (Linfield)
Belfast Telegraph
28-04-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Four Linfield players named in NIFWA Team of the Year
Irish League champions Matthew Orr, Euan East, Joel Cooper and Matthew Fitzpatrick are joined in the Team of the Year by three Glentoran players and two each from Irish Cup Finalists Cliftonville and Dungannon Swifts.
