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Glenavon Mike Sid bottom. It's here. It's upon us. The annual pilgrimage. | :00:08. | :00:23. | |
Football's showpiece. Passion. Drama. Twists. Turns. Fans. Heroes. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Lifting the cup. Welcome to Windsor Park to the 136th | :00:31. | :00:54. | |
Irish Cup Final and they have come out in their thousands, the rain is | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
here, there are 11,000 and counting and they are here to enjoy arguably | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
the biggest single day in local football. It's Linfield against | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Glenavon, the Irish Cup Final and it's live here on BBC Northern | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Ireland. Afternoon, you're all very, very | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
welcome to the show, not least my studio guests Chris Morgan and | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Stephen Baxter. Chris, massive day, which way is it going to go? I don't | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
know. I tipped glen avenuen at the start, the first round of the cup, I | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
had a fancy for them, they normally finish the season really well and | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
have done so again, they are in good form. They are up against a good | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
team also in form so I've tipped them at the start and can't change | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
now but it will be a close game. Stephen? If we get the open flowing | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
football that we got where both teams go for it a bit, we'll be in | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
for a great game with the bunker crowd and the wet pitch which always | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
creates a few mistakes and two teams that are really playing well. | :02:05. | :02:16. | |
Glenavon have a few good ones in their team. I appreciate you both | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
being here in this game. Every kick of every ball coming your way this | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
afternoon. The teams arrived a short time ago. There's Gary, Paul, | :02:28. | :02:41. | |
Millar, the player/manager there. And Braniff who bagged four in the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
semi-final. What can we read into the body language? Owen Bradley | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
shaking hands with the Maestro. He's brought half of Glenavon we are told | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
this afternoon. David Healey's boyhood club. Maybe more nerves | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
there, Andy Waterworth, the captain, Niall Quinn texting to say he's on | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the bench today and Jackie Fullerton, David Jeffrey and David | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Healey, what a trio! Let's shine the Spotlight on Glenavon and the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
player/manager in particular. Gary Hamilton's been the bringer of | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
success, stability and silverware. It's time for them to celebrate. | :03:27. | :03:41. | |
Thankfully for me, it's got better and better every year. Last season | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
finished third in the league. It's been great. | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
The fans are great, the way they treat the players, looking after the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
players and staff, it's unbelievable. It's not like any | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
other football club I've ever been part of. We've got that never say | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
die attitude. We are an honest, hard-working team, the team spirit | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
is unbelievable. It was the best feeling for me ever. | :04:19. | :04:33. | |
To be with your home town team, to support them all your life, to be | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
the manager and end up coming on to the pitch and playing a wee bit of a | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
part in it, and getting the win, there is no better feeling than | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
that. Fantastic scenes, Gary Hamilton hugging his grandfather. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
It's unbelievable because my grandad's still going strong now. At | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
that time he took a couple of wee turns and it was emotional for me | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
because I thought it could be the last time he saw me playing but he | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
survived, he's going great. Smythe! I think a final touch was there and | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Burns has broken the deadlock and Linfield will be back for the Cup | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
Final! We go back a long way. I went to Blackburn when he was at | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Manchester United, so we saw each other at school every Thursday | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
because we went to the same school over there. It's funny saying this, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
but he was a hero of mine, only a year older than me, but the way he | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
scored goals for Northern Ireland, in my time, he's been the best ever | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
and it's great now, probably about 20 years on, since we are playing | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
together, we are going to be standing in the dug-outs together in | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
the Irish Cup Final. Whose name will be on that trophy? ! | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
There he is, grandad, among the 4500-strong Glenavon support. Chris, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
unquestionably a fine footballer but maturing all the while, Gary | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Hamilton as a manager? No doubt. His ability as a player. I was fortunate | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
enough to play with im. Incredibly gifted striker. Could do everything | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
as a front player. Not the most conventional manager ever I would | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
have thought. You are right, he's maturing and he's a fine manager, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
already won one Irish Cup, potential to win another today, not too many | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
would argue with that appointment now. A broad smile on your face, | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Stephen. Hold that thought! Outside of George Best best, this man's | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
probably Northern Ireland's most iconic footballer. He's been in | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
charge of the club since November of last year, the ride has been bumpy | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
at times. He's of course David Healey. | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
When I first came in and took the job, an Irish Cup Final was a long | :06:57. | :07:09. | |
way off, so it was one of the targets. Especially when we lost to | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
Ballymena. It was a game I fully expected us to win. We didn't do | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
enough to win it. The players grouped after the game and I said it | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
hurt me that night losing the Cup Final. | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
I've had many tough times as a player, but as a manager, you take | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
full responsibility for picking the team at half time and before the | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
game people were saying Linfield haven't lost for three in a row, if | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
they lose one more, it's going to be 1859 or something. It hurts. It | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
really did hurt. People were questioning me, is he doing a good | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
job, does he know enough about the league and this, that and the other. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
That hurt me because I was a big fan of the Irish league. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
That could be the winner... I don't think it's me who's got them | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
playing, you know, there's always been a talent in this group of | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
players. I've spoken to the previous managers, David Jeffrey and Warren | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Feeney and they sort of say, you know, they just lack something, what | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
do they lack and it was down to me to try to find out and give them a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
little edge to win the games. Mulgrew. Great save! Linfield have | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
done it. We have not won a trophy for four years, the Irish cup, and | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
it's been too long for a club of this size, the standards and | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
demands, recent months what we have done it's down to the players | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
because we have worked hard as a group. Hopefully we'll give a good | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
account of oushess in the final. If we do that, it should be a good game | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
and hopefully we can come out on top. David Healy, his light shines | :09:11. | :09:22. | |
on and on and on but will Glenavon put their lights out this afternoon? | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Unquestionable talent as a player, but as a manager do you sense after | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
the bumpy start that he's grown into this post? Very much so. I've been | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
very impressed with how he's handled himself in all areas of the job. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
He's been at a lot of games, watching the junior football and the | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
younger players, he's been around all of Northern Ireland, if you | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
like, trying to search out what he wants and how he'll put his stamp on | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
this and grow players into the team. We have seen that with the | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
introduction of young Paul Smythe. He's brave in his decision-making | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
which is very important. He's made a call today at the goalkeeper and you | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
have to do that, be brave in your decision because you know what you | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
want. Single-minded because the buck stops with you. I'm glad to say he | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
stood up to that today. Right now, let us take the temperature pitch | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
side and say good afternoon to Thomas who is with a couple of | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
familiar faces. Pretty heavy rain here over the past | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
half hour so there is a zip off the surface. A relaxed atmosphere | :10:27. | :10:40. | |
amongst the players, Matthew Clarke and warming up here with his | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
team-mate. Two men who know what it's like to be involved in Cup | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Finals, not in a playing capacity today though, great atmosphere for | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
the players. What's it been like in the dressing room, nerves from a | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Glenavon perspective? The boys are settling well. Watched a bit of a | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
video and I think the boy runs for it today. When it comes for goals | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
and Cup Finals, you scored a special one a couple of years ago. Talk us | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
through that strike? Couldn't believe it myself. We are one down, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
man sent off, we thought, we may as well have a go and it worked out | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
well on the day. You were the man who won the free kick and did all | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
the hard work? I have to say that because that's all I've heard about | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
for the last two years is the old kick. In all fairness to Kyle, it | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
was a great free kick, a great day out. A fantastic performance that | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
day from all the boys and it was a great game. The sending off maybe | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
could have went either way, but we hope there's no controversial | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
refereeing decision today and all round just a good game. Briefly, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
where is the match going to be won or lost today? I'm not sure. There | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
are match-winners everywhere when you look across both teams so I'm | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
kind of looking around going, if we can get crosses in, Burns is always | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
a threat, you know, then you look on the opposite end, if Braniff shows | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
up, that could be tricky. It will be a fantastic game no matter what way | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
it goes. Thank you very much both of you. A fantastic atmosphere, as I | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
say. The roar of the Lynn peopled fans with the players warming up in | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
front of them -- Linfield fans. Kyle and Guy in opposing camps | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
today. Healy makes the brave calls. In Portsmouth the 18-year-old's made | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
a big call today and he is your one to watch? Very much so. | :12:49. | :13:03. | |
Smyth is a live wire, he looks to get into spaces, that's hard to pick | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
up at times. Look at the space when he gets the ball, five yards of | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
space, the mark of a good striker, that's what it's about upfront. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Another brilliant finish here. I was at that game live on the night and | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
he put the keeper on his bottom. Composure, taking his time. The mark | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
of a class player. That's born into you, you don't get taught that, he's | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
18 and is playing like a veteran. David saw that in him as soon as he | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
came into the ground. He established what we needed, thought he needed a | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
bit more pace up the top end of the park and put that in and the team | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
have taken off from Paul Smyth coming in. We could have picked a | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
handful from Glenavon. Cooper you've decided to look at. What stands out | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
for him for you? He's a new signing, brought in at the start of the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
season. It's his directness, he runs to people, commits to people, he's | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
been a great signing. Glenavon bought him in from Ballyclare. Joel | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Cooper again, he shoots from outside the box though, he takes | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
opportunities there. He's a threat. I watched him first game of the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
season. He came off the bench along with Gary and galvanised Glenavon. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
No emergency up until he came on. Suddenly he was a young guy coming | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
on making his debut and Glenavon got close to getting a point that day | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
because he came on the pitch, made people work. He was honest and he's | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
really kicked on from there and is now an established first team | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
player. He plays nearly every week, so just interesting to see how it | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
goes with a Cup Final. Expecting big things. We'll hopefully have goals | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
this afternoon. This is the fourth meeting of the Cup Final for these | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
two teams. Linfield won, then Glenavon, then this was the match | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
programme from 1961's final. Household names in there, 5-1 was | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the eventual score, Campbell with a hat trick for Glenavon, Jimmy Jones | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
got two, Tommy Dickson, the Duke of Windsor, of course, you see him | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
there. Braithwaite, Jones, Dugan, the great Jimmy Jones and that's all | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
the way from 61, a great piece of history. A closer look at today's | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
referee. The final day of the Irish league, a big, big day for Raymond | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
Hetherington as we look at him going through his final preparations here? | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
Yes. It's a big game for everybody and he'll play as big a part as the | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
players. I hope we are not talking about wrongly made decisions at any | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
course during the day. There is a lot of exposure and we have been | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
highlighting a lot of refereeing decisions of late. It's his first | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Cup Final. There'll be nerves for everybody. I hope he has a good | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
game. We don't want to be talking about mistakes, we have done enough | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
of that this season. There'll be pressure on him, pressure on the | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
players and managers, I hope he performs. He's in the invidious | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
position that he's not a manager and can't criticise. A referee is an | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
important part of the game, it's a massive day for him? The big thing I | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
like about Raymond Hetherington is his man-management skills. He has a | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
communication with the players and managers. I really like that about | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
him. He understands the game very well and works hard. This is a big | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
day for him. He did our match at Glentoran last week and it was the | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
dress rehearsal for this, the linesman, the fourth official, et | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
cetera, they were all there. All the manager get a wee bit upset at times | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
but the referees do their best, there is so much at stake at times. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Another big name pitch side now with TK. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
This is what it's all about today, the famous Irish cup trophy. The | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
play verse made their way into the dressing room for a few last-minute | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
words from both sets of management teams, the red carpet is out and we | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
have goal-scoring Royalty alongside us, Peter Thompson and Glenn | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Ferguson. Peter, you've some record in Irish Cup Finals, tell us about | :17:37. | :17:47. | |
it? Yes, six finals, six wins, six goals, it's been great, can't get | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
better than that. You hope you still play for games like this. Hopefully | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
it's a good game. How important are moments like this in the dressing | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
room for the player? I think it's massive. Obviously Linfield haven't | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
won the last four years, the new manager's come in and done a good | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
job and it will give them the belief, almost like it was for us | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
when we won the Setanta Cup, to have a period of success. They'll be set | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
up for that down the line. Glenavon will have a major say in that. It | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
should be a good game. Glenn, you look like you are savouring the | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
moment here, big crowd, big atmosphere, you have a foot in both | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
camps, having scored for both teams. Where do you think this game's going | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
to be won today? I think the quality players in both teams, whoever | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
settles best, gets on the ball and makes thing happen. Braniff is | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
quality for Glenavon. He could make a difference. Paul Smyth is pacy and | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
quick. Mulgrew will be key for Linfield today. Makes the driving | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
runs forward. It could go either way. So many different players and | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
good players on both teams, so it's a big, big occasion for them and I | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
hope it settles well. A huge call from David Healy to start Gareth | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Deane in goal. What do you make of that? It is, particularly because | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Glenavon rely a lot on the set pieces. Cooper's delivery is very | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
good and Simon Kelly and Keith Bradley, they've got kierin Martyn, | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
big lads pressuring the team, so as good a keeper as he is, he'll be | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
very nervous. Glenn and Peter, thank you very much. As I said before, | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
goal-scoring Royalty, one of the deadliest strike forces in local | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
football and Mark, I'm sure they could still do the job now! | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
There's a man who can still do a job, big day for the fans and the | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
players and a big, big day for our Jack can I Fullerton, there he is, | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
getting his standing ovation alongside David Jeffrey, this his | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
final Irish Cup Final call. -- Jackie Fullerton. We are proud that | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
he's still the man at the microphone. He's a legend? Oh, | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
listen, I could tell you so many stories about Jackie, he's just a | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
fabulous person, who he's given to the game in Northern Ireland is | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
enormous -- what. We are all very grateful for what he's done for us | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
over the years. Good guy. Jackie Fullerton, how is it in the | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
commentary box, how are you feeling? Nervous, nervous. It's great. You | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
have the usual apprehension but the atmosphere here is absolutely | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
tremendous. That's what makes Irish Cup Finals so special. It's that | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
glamorous Hollywood day, the end of the season, and you've got two sets | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
of fans here. This stadium is not completed yet, but we have about | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
4500 from Glenavon, we have about 5600-6000 from Linfield and 102010 | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
neutrals so it's packed to capacity and they are making some noise, | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
particularly the Linfield fans who haven't won this for four years | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
sothey are desperate to win a major trophy -- 1000 neutrals. Sa little | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
lump in the throat? No, I'll be selfish in saying I'm sad but I've | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
enjoyed every minute of it. This is my 29th final and I just love the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
adrenaline rush I get at all of these. That's something which I'll | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
miss. Who knows, if you can buy me a little lemonade or something, it may | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
calm me down? ! Nothing short of pleasure to do that. Jackie will be | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
calling the match for us. His final Irish cup commentary, can you | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
believe it, it has to be a good one for him, Chris? It will be. He'll | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
not suffer too many nerves. He's covered 29 of the matches. For you | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
today, we are getting close to prediction time, the winning and | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
losing of it, both teams have set up like they are going to go for it? | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
They both play attacking style of football. There are goals in both | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
teams. I look at Glenavon and feel there are players that if they grab | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
the game by the scruff, Bradley for example, he can be unmaybe and | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Braniff can be unmaybe on his day as well as in the semi-final. I have a | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
notion for Glenavon, I had it from the start, I could be proven badly | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
wrong but I'll stick my neck out and predict Glenavon. Stephen? It's very | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
hard to call this one. The teams are evenly matched. The big winner | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
players might be in the Glenavon set-up but Linfield have it too. | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
Here are your match commentary team. Thank you very much indeed. There is | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
the prize, the Irish cup. The players are just about to emerge. As | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
I said, just a minute ago, the Tenants Irish Cup final, it's the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
glamorous finale for the local season. Special day for the players | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
and the fans. Four matches could get you into a final. It takes | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
consistency to win the league Championship, the one they all want, | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
particularly the Linfield fans, but they'll be looking for this Irish | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
cup. They haven't won the league or the cup since David Jeffrey, the man | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
beside me, his team did a double four years ago in 2012. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Wonderful atmosphere, as you would imagine. There are some 4500-5000 up | :24:05. | :24:18. | |
from Glenavon as well. There's Andy Waterworth getting final | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
instructions, the Linfield skipper, his 50th game. That lady there is | :24:24. | :24:36. | |
the wife, the widow of Mark. Her husband led Glenavon out two years | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
ago when they won the trophy when they beat Ballymena United. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Todaytering Rhyl Louise has the honour after Mark sadly passed away | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
in February after a long illness. A nice touch by Glenavon and a humane | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
moment in football that rarely gets a mention. Amongst the mascots, by | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
the way, their hugely enjoy this. Two of them for Glenavon, Callum and | :25:06. | :25:19. | |
Cory, the sons of glarry Hamilton. -- Gary Hamilton. Nice little shake | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
of the hands there withtering Rhyl Louise. -- with Terri Louise. David | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
Healy seemed a little nervous earlier. Very understandable. Unless | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
you have been a manager, you will never really be able to empathise or | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
appreciate just what is going through your mind. It's not just | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
about your team selection, but also about the awful thing of having to | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
lead players out and having to communicate with them on the day by | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
having to still focus on the players. You have all sorts of | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
emotions all over the place. We are getting ready for the 136th Irish | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Cup Final. It's back at Windsor Park. It's town against country, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
same as last season, when the City won. | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
A bit of controversial in the last game. The decision to give the goal. | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
That's all water under the bridge now. There's a bit of a breeze today | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
as well. Not too much down on pitch side. | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
You will see the Number 10 there, remembering Mark Farron, that was | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
his number at the club. That's kierin Martyn, the skipper. | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
Jim Shaw, the chairman of the Irish cup. That's the gentleman from | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
Tenants. ?20,000 for the winners today, | :27:01. | :27:12. | |
?15,000 for the runnersup. The referee, Raymond Hetherington making | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
the introductions. He's doing his first Irish Cup Final. He looks | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
content enough. He does indeed. I really do hope we are not talking | :27:19. | :27:34. | |
about refereeing decisions. Take yourselves back to this time last | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
year, there was controversy over refereeing decisions and officials' | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
decisions. Let's hope today that all we are talking about is the | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
football, is the occasion and is the game. Absolutely. David Healy, what | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
an international career! 95 caps, record 36 goals. Different now. He's | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
got to deliver trophies for Linfield. There is a disappointment | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
of losing the County Antrim shield to Ballymena earlier on, but let's | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
pause for the anthem. NATIONAL ANTHEM | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
PLAYS Down the line of both teams there, a | :28:12. | :28:53. | |
lot of nerves and pressure, David. A massive amount of pressure and | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
nerves. Interesting that Glenn said it's about who can settle quickest, | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
who can settle the earliest. Remember, way back in 1993 when we | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
had that trilogy of couch finals -- Cup Finals. I was an experienced | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
player at that stage in my career, but I remember being absolutely | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
frozen with nerves the first 15 minutes of the game, it was only | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
when I got my first touch that I got into the game. You want to try and | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
settle early, but you need that first touch. | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
I commentated that trilogy and I remember it for different reasons, | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
it was quite tedious. Let's look at the teams. Glenavon will be for 42. | :29:39. | :29:51. | |
Very capable of causing Linfield problems, look out for probing of | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
the winners. Kris Lindsay has been left out of the starting line-up. | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
Conor Dillon and Simon Kelly will start in centre defence, and John | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
Toffee, probably the best goalkeeper this season. After just six games, | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
21-year-old Gareth Deane is in goal. Stephen Lowry, semifinal hero with a | :30:18. | :30:31. | |
hat-trick. Top scorer Andy Waterworth upfront, with Paul Smyth | :30:32. | :30:44. | |
also in a 4-4- two formation. There is Kevin Braniff. He's just signed a | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
one-year contract this week. We got all four goals in Glenavon's win | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
over Crusaders. There is Andy Waterworth on his 50th game this | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
season. 32 goals. Cairan Martyn, dirty six-year old, there is a | :31:03. | :31:13. | |
younger man, Gareth Deane, who has played six first-team games and he's | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
kept six clean sheets, and that is Aaron Burns, the hero of their | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
semifinal with a 3-0 win over Lurgan Celtic. We are just about ready. | :31:26. | :31:35. | |
Linfield are 5-6 favourites and Glenavon, you can get a tasty 3-1. I | :31:36. | :31:42. | |
think that is a good price for a Glenavon, who have a real price. I'm | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
not a betting man, I don't understand old spot for me it's too | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
close call. I watched Glenavon in the semifinal against Crusaders, | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
they were massively impressive. Linfield have been on a great run of | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
form, first Crusaders the whole way, and I think this will be a cracking | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
game, fantastic match and for me, too close to call. The two front | :32:11. | :32:18. | |
men, Braniff faced by Eoin Bradley, and Owen's brother Paddy Bradley and | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
all the boys are down to watch him in action today and I hope they will | :32:26. | :32:32. | |
enjoy today. I promised I would mention Paddy Bradley, who is an | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
all-star county player from Derry. There is the manager with the beard, | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
Paul Millar beside him. Gary Hamilton, what a job he has done. | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
The nominal job. A lot of people queried the decision when he became | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
manager but he has proved to be no fool. | :32:55. | :33:06. | |
Andy Hall, young man who was playing in a County Championship play-off | :33:07. | :33:18. | |
last year, such is Irish football. We heard this week with Leicester, | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
it is about recruitment and players from the lower reaches who come up, | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
and certainly Gary had the talent eyes on and Andrew has come in and | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
done well. I have been impressed with Hall, and Joel Cooper, two | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
lively winners. Glenavon trying to push forward. That might have been a | :33:43. | :33:51. | |
bit of pushing from Eoin Bradley. We had a taster here between Jimmy | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
Callacher and Eoin Bradley. Different challenges for both | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
centre-backs. You have the physicality of Bradley, the | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
cleverness of run-off, so a battle there. -- Braniff. I think Stephen | :34:09. | :34:21. | |
Lowry has the free kick. He has a lot to live up to, Stephen Lowry. | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
His brother Philip played here and won three out of three Irish Cup | :34:28. | :34:35. | |
finals, scored in one of them. Conor Dillon and Simon Kelly will have the | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
pace of Paul Smyth and Andrew Waterworth to deal with. | :34:41. | :34:47. | |
That's a good ball in from Ross Gaynor. Good delivery, which he is a | :34:48. | :34:56. | |
very feeble. The man who won an FAI cup final with Sligo. Kilmartin, | :34:57. | :35:09. | |
very cool. He has given it away. Larry tried to do left, it didn't | :35:10. | :35:16. | |
work out. Bradley didn't know it but it was onside. Very much so. He | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
should have played to the whistle or to the linesman putting that flag | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
up. You're always taught as a schoolboy, played to the whistle. | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
Sean Ward is the oldest Linfield player at 32. He would thank me for | :35:35. | :35:41. | |
saying that, but he is a Rolls-Royce of a player, he can play anywhere. | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
You might agree. I was delighted as Linfield manager to bring him from | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
Glentoran and he served both clubs with distinction. There is a great | :35:53. | :36:01. | |
atmosphere, both sets of fans are really up for this, both are | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
desperate to end the season with a bit of silver work. Linfield fans | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
demand silverware. This is good for the Blues. Just looking back to the | :36:11. | :36:18. | |
semifinal, Glenavon worth three times behind and came back each | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
time. As the keeper took that, it almost worked out but not quite. | :36:26. | :36:33. | |
There is Andy Hall, now over this side. Paul has won back by Linfield, | :36:34. | :36:48. | |
driven in an super hands by John Tuffey, who has proved to be an | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
outstanding goalkeeper in the league this year. He is also the Glenavon | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
Player of the Year. It was a real chance for Andy Waterworth and he | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
couldn't take it. He is usually lethal in those situations. Not that | :37:04. | :37:14. | |
time. Good pressure from Linfield. Mulgrew pushed it wide. Couldn't get | :37:15. | :37:25. | |
the cross over. Andy Waterworth will look back on that and see it as a | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
real chance. We'll get to see that in a moment or two, as Linfield take | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
this throw in. It's been a lively five minutes. Yes, Linfield have | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
started brightly, without doubt in the ascendancy. And if we do get to | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
see that, we will find it was not so much paper mess but some great | :37:51. | :37:58. | |
defending. Andrew gets in front but that's a superb block there. He | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
didn't get any van among behind the finish. He will shrug that off -- | :38:02. | :38:12. | |
venom. 32 goals in 49 games, a good ratio. Kelly could be in for a busy | :38:13. | :38:21. | |
afternoon in defence, and maybe I'm always optimistic as a commentator, | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
hoping we will get goals, but I think we will, maybe 3-2 today. I | :38:25. | :38:33. | |
talked about players having nervous and how I found it difficult, there | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
doesn't appear to be any nerves, they seem to have dissipated | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
altogether. Linfield are having a good period. Lovely skill there. | :38:44. | :38:53. | |
Andy Waterworth couldn't get in front of his marker. Now the brake | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
on here. This is good interchanging. Here | :38:58. | :39:14. | |
comes Mulgrew, the angle is against him, he tried it, not successfully. | :39:15. | :39:23. | |
Super passage of play, Aaron Burns, Paul Smyth, Mulgrew taking it on and | :39:24. | :39:30. | |
the shock was blocked. Linfield are going for the jugular from the. Very | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
controlled, good movement, they are very much playing well at the | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
moment. Mark Patton with a little beard and he's usually a left | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
winger, but he's at left-back so maybe Linfield will try and see if | :39:49. | :39:56. | |
he has any weaknesses as a defender. And Aaron Burns playing wide right, | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
so uninteresting challenge. Duels all over the place. Now, here comes | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
Aaron Burns, but it wasn't a good ball. | :40:11. | :40:18. | |
Braniff, holding off his marker, he has done it so well over the years, | :40:19. | :40:24. | |
that's not like him. Gallaher misjudged that one, Jorge | :40:25. | :40:41. | |
didn't. -- hockey. Waterworth lurking in that forward area. | :40:42. | :40:54. | |
Linfield seem to get into a rhythm, whereas Glenavon have not, and there | :40:55. | :41:03. | |
we are, a round of applause, slightly early, for Mark Farren. | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
That was his number, number ten, four Glenavon. A man sadly missed as | :41:10. | :41:17. | |
a player and as a person. He was a top man. This is what makes you feel | :41:18. | :41:25. | |
really, really proud to be involved with Irish League ball. Listen to | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
both sets of supporters paying tribute to a wonderful a wonderful, | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
brave man. You think of how his family have continued but my | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
goodness, and such and Asian, to have both sets of supporters paying | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
such a wholesome tribute, it would bring tears. And what a nice touch | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
for Glenavon, to have Kerry Louise, his widow, leading the team on. | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
Cooper just gave himself too much to do. It was a good challenge, let's | :42:06. | :42:15. | |
see this. It was Sean Ward and he seemed to push water out of the way | :42:16. | :42:17. | |
and there is the block. You picked him out earlier on. I | :42:18. | :42:29. | |
watched Joel earlier in the season down at Warren point where he scored | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
two or three goals and he was superb. Linfield not making any | :42:33. | :42:42. | |
headway that time. I think there was a bit of filling there, and I think | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
Markoff he is getting fed up with the intention -- Mark hockey. The | :42:47. | :42:55. | |
illegal attention from Bradley. This is old-fashioned play, get out of my | :42:56. | :43:02. | |
way. Six of one half a dozen of the other. Bradley was making his | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
presence felt but Mark also had the whole of his jersey, and maybe | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
fortunate to get the decision. That is part of the ploy, upset the big | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
centre-half, get him booked. Very cool. Cooper was unlucky. He was | :43:20. | :43:28. | |
there to do a job in the first place. Isn't it great, the | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
intensity, battles all over the place. That's a good ball in, off | :43:34. | :43:44. | |
the line. Laurie got the final touch. Brilliant reflexes. It all | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
happened out of nothing. In by Ward, there was Stephen Larry and he | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
thought he was on the scoresheet like his brother Philip a fuel years | :43:58. | :44:05. | |
ago, but Tuffey was there. A great ball in by Sean Ward. Grid connect | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
by Stephen Larry but what a save from Jonathan Tuffey. If he hadn't | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
been as sharp, Linfield were one up, without doubt. Glenavon have to try, | :44:19. | :44:28. | |
apart from resolving the pressure, they have to get forward. They do | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
but what Linfield are doing well, good ball in from Sean Ward, and | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
look at that saved from two, and then the ball is cleared by Rhys | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
Marshall. Give credit to Simon Kelly, who was there to put him off. | :44:47. | :44:56. | |
That didn't work, it was to type. The break could be on here. To go | :44:57. | :45:07. | |
back to your point about what Glenavon need to do, they need to | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
come league with Linfield, who were squeezing the ball quickly and | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
early. The modern turn is pressing the ball as a group and Glenavon | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
simply cannot get out. A dangerous ball across Cooper. In bypassing, | :45:23. | :45:37. | |
Linfield deal with it, and Andy Kilmartin all the way back. | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
David Cole sent Johnny Tuffey, I have always known him as Jonathan. | :45:45. | :45:57. | |
David is a friend of his. A dear close friend of mine but also when I | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
was manager I signed him and I think he is a tremendous goalkeeper, and I | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
love to see people I work with you well, and I call him Jonathan | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
because his mum would shout at me if I didn't. Here we go. Well done, | :46:14. | :46:23. | |
referee, he says there was a bit of filling. Glenavon get the free kick. | :46:24. | :46:31. | |
Now just watch him here, he doesn't frighten and he's giving as good as | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
he gets. He may be small in stature but he is a mighty young man. I | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
watched them here against Crusaders. I believe there might be a few | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
scouts today looking at that young man. | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
Cooper, very tricky, a great ball in and it was so close to nestling in | :46:56. | :47:04. | |
the postage stamp. That expression sums up, he thought that might have | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
curled in and it almost did. Great trickery from Joel. David Healy will | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
want Sean Ward to get to him much closer, much earlier and not to give | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
him that space. He thought it would go on the left-hand side, came in on | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
his right and a great effort for Joel. Looking at Cooper and Hall, | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
they are winners and both have six yellow cards this season. Winners | :47:36. | :47:42. | |
are not usually aggressive. Back in your day you used to early winners. | :47:43. | :47:51. | |
A bit of a miscued there, you could excuse if he has a few nerves, it is | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
a cup final on his seventh game this season for young Deane. They had the | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
sprinklers on and it is uneven in areas. I hate to be critical but I | :48:04. | :48:13. | |
have seen the pitch better. A long throw, Linfield almost deal with it. | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
The keeper has dropped it. They scramble here. It's in! The whistle | :48:20. | :48:27. | |
has gone. Eoin Bradley cannot believe it. The goalkeeper had it | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
and then he lost it, and I think they were maybe ticking when the | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
goalkeeper was trying to hold onto it. Let's see. Pick the bones out of | :48:38. | :48:45. | |
this one. Gareth doesn't get hold of it, you can see Bradley trying to | :48:46. | :48:54. | |
dig it out. Is there much wrong with that. Let's see. It's not in his | :48:55. | :49:06. | |
hands. That's big Cairan Martyn, it's up against Eoin Bradley. I'd | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
think that is a good spot by Raymond. He's not happy, itsy? From | :49:14. | :49:22. | |
his ankle, I can understand it. We have the luxury of seeing it back | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
and seeing the ferocity of the tackle. It mightn't have been given | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
in any other part of the pitch. But there is young Gareth. Here we see | :49:34. | :49:40. | |
it again. He doesn't get a hold of it. It is that challenge. Yet, it | :49:41. | :49:57. | |
was Cairan Martyn without question. A let off for that young 21-year-old | :49:58. | :50:06. | |
from Lisburn. After all of Linfield's dominance in the first 15 | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
minutes, Glenavon were not at the races, then the first chance they | :50:12. | :50:22. | |
get, they nearly score. Just 18 minutes gone and it is lively stuff. | :50:23. | :50:32. | |
Still no goals in this cup final. You made a good point about the | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
goalkeeper, six games but six clean sheets. He had that mis-kick, that | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
little altercation. Keeper comes, it gets a good punch, that will help | :50:44. | :50:52. | |
him. Big style anti-needed that. What a lovely touch from Braniff, | :50:53. | :51:00. | |
silky skills from the 33-year-old. That's the commentator's curse, when | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
you praised them they make a mistake. Always, but I will try to | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
help you out, I watched him in the semifinal against Crusaders and on | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
that night the Navan were superb but he was imperious. The quality of his | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
goals, the standard of his play was outstanding, so you were right to | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
think that his effort would have been better. Thank you, David. | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
Ballymena United manager who also doubles as my agent! Coming up to 20 | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
minutes, we still await the first goal. I have a feeling it may not be | :51:43. | :51:50. | |
far away. How's that for optimism? Cairan Martyn did well, so too did | :51:51. | :51:57. | |
Bradley but not all. A poor touch for the young man. Rhys Marshall | :51:58. | :52:04. | |
goes back, he didn't get to it a bit lackadaisical by young Marshall. You | :52:05. | :52:12. | |
also got to give credit to Andrew Waterworth, who put him under | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
pressure. It's like every final, especially a final where it is a | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
one-off. You get a goal, the game has to open up. And look what we | :52:25. | :52:32. | |
have now, Linfield dominant, biting at the heels of every Glenavon | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
player who was on the ball. Tuffey has to make ace superb save, then we | :52:37. | :52:43. | |
do at the other end, Glenavon turn the game on its head and, we had | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
that little melee and now we see Glenavon... Braniff taking a rest, | :52:51. | :52:58. | |
leaning against the post. A busy goalmouth as this goal comes in. | :52:59. | :53:05. | |
That will be disappointing. Joel Cooper will have wanted to do better | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
and that is the chance you want to put him under pressure, to put the | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
ball into the box and there is nothing as integer eating as when | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
you do not beat the first man. As a manager it would drive you crazy. | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
You are screaming, get the ball over. Glenavon, inside the Linfield | :53:26. | :53:34. | |
half. Young Smyth, bounced away from him. | :53:35. | :53:48. | |
Good ball in, that's a very good ball in, now it dropped to Hall. I | :53:49. | :53:58. | |
would have expected better from Andy Hall, who can really hit a ball. He | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
has five goals this season, one in that cup, and look at this. The | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
technique wasn't there on that occasion. We didn't see it that | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
there was a great piece of clever plates bike Kevin Braniff, where he | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
came into a little pocket and set that opportunity up. | :54:19. | :54:29. | |
Well won by the central defender. Good chasing thereby Paul Smyth. | :54:30. | :54:44. | |
Sadly he gives away the throw in. But he is a handful. David Healy | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
told me at the start of the season about this boy and he has kept faith | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
with him. I don't think it is overstating the fact that Paul | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
Smyth's influence at Linfield has been quite dramatic. His | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
introduction was maybe unexpected but the quality of his play and what | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
he has given his team-mates must be praised and were nice. -- and | :55:10. | :55:18. | |
recognised. David Healy will be satisfied, they looked dangerous but | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
they could have been one behind but that goal was robbed out. He will be | :55:24. | :55:31. | |
happy with the first 15 minutes but when you're in the vicinity, you | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
want to profit and what goes through your head is the doubt, I wish we | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
had got a goal, because you know the opposition will come back into it. | :55:42. | :55:50. | |
That ounces away for the Gold Tech. I thought it was amazing that these | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
sides have only previously met three times in the final. Glenavon one to | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
of those and Linfield won the other, but this is the first to be played | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
at Windsor Park. The last one, ironically, this is my last | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
commentary, it's Glenavon against Linfield. My first commentary for | :56:13. | :56:20. | |
the BBC in 1992, Irish Cup Final, Glenavon two, Linfield one, is that | :56:21. | :56:27. | |
an omen for today? Jamie Mulgrew was halted there. I remember that final | :56:28. | :56:35. | |
very well because I was left out of the team and that's why I was | :56:36. | :56:38. | |
talking earlier about both managers and eight top part of the day when | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
you work telling a player you have made the decision, they are not | :56:44. | :56:48. | |
involved, and you try to commiserate, sympathise, comfort, | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
but... It doesn't mean anything to the player. Not a thing. Here we go. | :56:55. | :57:09. | |
but... It doesn't mean anything to Linfield get it back in again. Did | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
Linfield goalkeeper, what a throw that was. Here is Cooper. | :57:15. | :57:25. | |
It's the wonderful Jamie Mulgrew who was doing the covering. In his | :57:26. | :57:38. | |
testimonial year, let's see, 432nd game for Linfield, scored 40 goals | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
over those ten or 11 years. There is Two, it was a great catch, he | :57:46. | :57:53. | |
covered the ball very early, Jamie Mulgrew another player who when I | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
was manager, was able to attract from Glentoran, and what a servant | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
of the club he has been. I remember you leaving him out for a cup final | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
and then you brought him on in the 63rd minute as a substitute and he | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
ended up Man of the Match when you want the match. What sort of | :58:14. | :58:22. | |
decision was that? He comped all day, I had chosen Philip Larry in | :58:23. | :58:30. | |
front of him and when a player has a jersey you don't take it off him and | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
Philip deserve to be in the side, but I said to Jamie to go out and | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
prove I was wrong, and did he prove that my decision that they was | :58:41. | :58:45. | |
possibly right. No, David, you were wrong. But that is yesteryear. Now, | :58:46. | :58:57. | |
Linfield cannot make any progress. The throw goes to Linfield. It is | :58:58. | :59:05. | |
lovely to see a great crop of supporters, the North stand is | :59:06. | :59:08. | |
packed to capacity with Linfield followers. It's great having the | :59:09. | :59:20. | |
final back here at Windsor. Into the middle, it was almost a good ball | :59:21. | :59:26. | |
but not quite. I think that might be a free kick. Young Smyth showing his | :59:27. | :59:35. | |
aggressive side. A little overdue brings, he claims there was a dive | :59:36. | :59:38. | |
but I do not thing he has a case there. Just a little nudge, and I | :59:39. | :59:46. | |
think he helped John on his way -- Joel. Not that Joe will probably | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
needed too much encouragement but a free it was. It's nice to see a | :59:52. | :59:58. | |
linesman make a decision. You did say you were going to be kind to the | :59:59. | :00:05. | |
officials. I'm always kind, it is a difficult job. The flight is up, | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
just about. That must have been close. A shake of the head from | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
Kevin Braniff. From our angle, I think the linesman or the assistant | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
got it right, I think Kevin knew himself, a look over his shoulder, | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
he just went a second early and the two centre-backs stepped up. | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Held on. Waterworth having to come deep. Linfield haven't really | :00:38. | :00:56. | |
threatened a Glenavon goal in recent minutes. That may change. That's a | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
free kick. Mistimed tackle by Andy Kilmartin. | :01:02. | :01:15. | |
Then maybe a little bit of afters. . Was it an accident? I don't want | :01:16. | :01:31. | |
to say premeditated, but was it meant? The ref just calming things | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
down. It's coming towards the half hour | :01:34. | :01:55. | |
mark. 0-0. We need a goal. Linfield will feel they want a goal to get in | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
front on their home patch. Oh, it was just too high for Andy | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Waterworth. This is a great ball in by Ross | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
Gaynor. And Burns it is. Just couldn't get it off the floor. Look | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
at this ball in. Great climb by Burns and unfortunately, just behind | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Waterworth. Small margins from going in front. Still 0-0. | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
We will have extra time and penalties if tired. -- if required. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Half an hour extra time. Over 11,000 people here today! | :02:44. | :02:58. | |
11,500. Good to see. And they are making quite a din. Cooper flicks it | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
away. Martyn didn't help it on its way. Mulgrew flicks it into the path | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
of Ward. Ward prefers his rite foot, takes it back to his left. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Smyth did very well. Marshall - he'd better not hang about. He was a | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
little bit fortunate there because Gaynor was there. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Smyth. The ball's in. And obviously again, you see the tactical ability | :03:36. | :03:53. | |
of Smyth there. He made a point. He was busy. You made a point earlier | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
on about Mark Patton being naturally a winger, yet playing at full back. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
That sometimes can be the problem. Going forward obviously Mark will | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
have no bother but maybe the defensive side of his game will be | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
tested. Glenavon. Braniff gets it in behind Cooper. They really are thin | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
margins today at both ends of the pitch. We are getting close to | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
danger but not quite getting there. Still 0-0. Over 12 minutes to half | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
time. A very subtle change. Burns started | :04:33. | :04:48. | |
wide right. He's naturally left-footed against Patton. Smyth | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
has come out to this side now. A tactical switch and interesting to | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
see. Maybe David is thinking, the pace of young Smyth against a fellow | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
winger who's playing against a defender, can we get something out | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
of it. Yes. I would agree with that. And you've got Linfield's two | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
leading goal scorers, Gary Hamilton warming up. Played last week. He | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
played in a reserve match almost. He was man-of-the-match. 35-year-old | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
centre half. And he told everybody this week at training, whoever | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
wanted to listen, how good he was! I've got to say, Jack, it's a - I | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
was speaking to Gary during the week and the association of centre | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
halves, present and past, they'll never be welcomed back in again. He | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
said, I playeded at centre back for 17 minutes and was man-of-the-match | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
and he said it was the easiest position on the pitch that. 'S what | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
he said! So for all of my fellow former and present centre backs, he | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
had a chance to get it. He's quite a man but he's been quite a player | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
over the years, former Northern Ireland international, of course, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
and a great friend of David Healy's. They played in youth teams all those | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
years ago. But they are not friendly until after this is decided. | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
Kilmartin. 33 years of age. Quite a midfield, a 33-year-old and a | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
36-year-old. You mentioned Kilmartin. I've watched him this | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
year and he's never ceased to impress me. He goes about his | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
business in a very quiet but business-like way. He's a quiet man. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
He rarely speaks. Here he is outside, gives it away. Mulgrew. He | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
too gives it away. Kilmartin. Something on here for Glenavon | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
perhaps. Martyn couldn't get through. Linfield a chance to break. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Well, the challenge was late there by the winger playing full back, | :07:22. | :07:37. | |
Mark Patton. On young Smyth. One of those tackles of a Cup Final. And | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
thoughts of the previous run by Smyth. He wanted to make his mark on | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
him. "Mark". All it will way across! Gaynor. Well, aer of his quality. I | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
think a free kick was given. It was a push. | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
Great spot by Raymond Hetherington. And it saves us from saying that a | :08:03. | :08:14. | |
player of glace nor's quality will be disappointed, a real gentleman | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
and a superb signing by David Healy. Nine minutes to half time and I | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
don't want to tempt fate but the referee's done well so far, Mr | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Hetherington. He's been excellent thus far. Very, very measured, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
hasn't rushed any decision. Everything he's done has been | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
correct. Even here. Burns flicks it on. Glenavon have it. Now, Mulgrew. | :08:45. | :08:57. | |
The old head. Didn't work out though. Forward. | :08:58. | :09:09. | |
Lowry being man handled by Kilmartin. He wants to take it | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
quickly. Raymond Hetherington got that | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
correct. There was a touch off the Glenavon | :09:24. | :09:41. | |
man. Difficult thing when you are playing against Bradley is the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
unpredictability. He really is a talent. He is a physical presence as | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
well. He's so off-the-cuff, Jack. He's hard to read and hard to play | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
against. But he comes from a Gaelic background so he's used to the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
rough-and-tumble. And he can score goals as well. He's got 19 this | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
season and three in the cup. 19 for the season despite the fact he was | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
out for eight weeks because of suspension. Burns Bradford run to | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Smyth. Could be danger here. Smyth gets it across. There's the old head | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Martyn. They have given it away. Ward. Wrong foot for Ward. He'll not | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
want to see that finish again! No. Skies it over. Previous to that was | :10:27. | :10:41. | |
a fantastic run by Burns. We have talked about the little switch. He | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
ran across, went to Paul Smyth. The gun slinger Bradley again. | :10:46. | :11:17. | |
Referee plays on. Patton gets it forward. Down the line. Joel Cooper. | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
He's done Ward again. I think this might be the first booking of the | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
afternoon. And it is. It's not often you see Ward getting a, shall we | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
say, a mild run around, but he has been taken at times by young Cooper. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
I did say pacy and probing, he certainly is, and that's all Sean | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Ward could do. Got that right on the money. Young Joel really is a | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
talent. Very, very quick. Technically very, very good. Shone | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
as an excellent defender, no doubt. On that occasion, Joel used his pace | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
and trickery and Sean, I've got to say, the referee had no choice but | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
to book him and now Glenavon have got themselves in a great position. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Five minutes to half time. Great chance for a breakthrough. | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
Keeper came and that'll do his confidence the world of good. Wasn't | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
a bad ball in, but he held it. Decent ball in, Jack, but I've got | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
to say, that showed bravery. We talked about nerves earlier on in | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
the game but to come out of the commander's box, well done. Yes, | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
he'll be trying to keep another clean sheet. Great ball from | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Braniff. Paul hit it too far for Bradley. Or has he? He did. They | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
were unlucky. Bradley puts his hands on his head. He knows it was a good | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
chance. Now, the danger may not be over. | :13:07. | :13:20. | |
Kelly. Liam Donaldson. Haughey. -- Dillon. Haughey. Andrew is moving | :13:21. | :13:42. | |
back again. So much to keep up with. I'm glad you know something about | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
this game, Jack! Very little. | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
Quite happy Simon Kelly to put it out of play. | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
It's a corner to Linfield. The noise comes up from the Linfield fans in | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
the North Stand. Three minutes to the break. What a time this would be | :14:08. | :14:20. | |
to go in front in a Cup Final. Burns awaits. | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
Some idiot's thought it wise to throw some sort of a bottle, plastic | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
bottle, on to the pitch. Such a good day. I wish people like that would | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
stay away from our game. Indeed. In comes the corner. Too high for | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Callacher. Referee decides it didn't get a touch off anybody. Goal kick. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
They would have been worried about conceding a few minutes before the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
break. And remember, in one of the finals under manager Peter Thompson, | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
just scoring prior to half time. Just scoring before half time, that | :15:03. | :15:15. | |
gave us such a lift going in that. 'S why Glenavon didn't want to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
concede. Referee said the ball was moving. | :15:20. | :15:48. | |
Wants it back. David Lowry ready to get a space through this time. The | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
referee will be happy. Mark Haughey joins the attack. Callacher also | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
comes out. Clarke over the ball. It would be a perfect time to two in | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
front. Just too high for the men in blue. | :16:10. | :16:21. | |
Here is Andy Waterworth! What a great tackle that was. | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
That was a goal-saving tackle. It was Dillon who got across there. | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
Dillon, tremendous, tremendous defending. Centre back pal, Simon | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
Kelly, will be delighted with that. In comes a corner. Glenavon deal | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
with it. Shouldn't be too much time to add on. Glenavon look to break. | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
It will fall for a Glenavon man? Falls for Haughey. Bradley's in. | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
What a finish! Kevin Braniff, four goals in the semi-final and now he's | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
got one in the final. What a time to get it. In injury time almost at the | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
end of this first half, and he has done it. Absolute delight. You don't | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
see any smiles there at the moment. But what a goal that was out of | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
nothing. Great cross in, good ball by Haughey. Bradley outside of the | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
foot. Braniff, what a finish! Absolutely outstanding, Jack. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Linfield were in the ascendancy. We talked about Glenavon. They go | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
forward. Watch this from a ball from Bradley. Was there maybe a little | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
push? Not so sure. There he was, the master finisher, the talisman, what | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
an absolute goal by Kevin Braniff right at the death. We were thinking | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
pressure at the other end as Linfield were looking to get a goal | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
at the end of this first half. Then we go to the other side of the pitch | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
and that man there, Kevin Braniff, has put Glenavon up 1-0 at half | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
time. The players just making their way | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
off the pitch behind me. Certainly the Glenavon fans who enjoyed the | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
first 45 minutes, Millar, what a time to score? Good time to score, | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
that's the way we play. The boys never give up, they don't take it | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
easy, keep going well. Linfield started well. Great save made and | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
it's been quite 50/50 but, as the game's gone on, we were getting | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
stronger. What was your take on the disallowed goal? It just looked like | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
a goal you see every week, you know, he'll either give it one way or the | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
other, I don't know what it looked like on the TV, but to me it looked | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
like a melee. What will be said in that dressing room at half time? | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Obviously we'll be delighted coming in 1-0 up. We wanted to weather the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
storm earlier on. I'm telling the boys to get on. Playing down the | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
channels they have looked vulnerable and the keeper's looked dodgy a | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
couple of times and we are trying to test him. How important will the | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
benches be? If it finishes 1-0, it won't be important. We have a decent | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
bench with Chris Lindsay and Gary obviously. It's a strong bench. I | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
don't know what to say, we are just happy enough now. Compose yourself | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
and say the important things inside the dressing room. Thank you very | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
much for speaking to us. One goal and it's for Glenavon. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Millar's run out of puff but Braniff hasn't. We have a Cup Final on our | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
hands! We waited 45 minutes. Bradley's brilliance, then Braniff | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
at the back post, they lead 1-0, Glenavon, in this, the 136th Irish | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Cup Final. Gents, we had to wait 45 minutes. | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Arguably it did come against the run of play, but when it came, what a | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
goal? Not sure if it was against the run of play. Linfield started | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
strong, Glenavon worked their way into it and had a period of | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
ascendancy, probably lasted fennel or 15, it tapered off a bit -- ten | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
or 15. The counterattack from the corner developed really well and a | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
great pass from B Bradley on that right hand side. He had the vision | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
and technical ability to clip it across outside of the foot. You | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
would fancy Braniff in that situation and he put it away. He's | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
someone that you know all too well all about four goals against you in | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
the semi-final and Braniff again, the man who makes the difference | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
this afternoon in the first 45. Take a look at it. Yes, he's been superb. | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
This is 100 metres in the air. He knew the defender was coming on his | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
blind side and spun him in one moment. Perfect how he controlled | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
the ball. He holds it up. He's on the spot, five, six yards of space, | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
and he's been like that all day. A defensive mistake for the goal | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
arguably? Yes, but look at Braniff from deep position, calls for the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
ball. Finds his space. He's 33 years old. He hasn't got the sprinty legs | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
any more, he's got the brain that finds his way into good positions. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Credit to Bradley, what a ball? ! Awesome ball. That's a skill in | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
itself. Outside of the left foot, spinning in the right direction and | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
of course, look at this finish here. That's quality. He doesn't miss from | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
those distances. Brilliant player. Look who is sorry and put pressure | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
here. Mark Patton left back. Counterattack. The mistake yes, Sean | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
Ward, he's cleared it anywhere unfortunately for him he's picked | :22:29. | :22:41. | |
out Andy. He said that's how we play, attacking into the box. Yes, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
he picked out Andy Hall. The opening 15 minutes were all Linfield and the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
commentator said they might rue the missed chances? They do have chances | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
early on. This is the first one? This is first opportunity, it's all | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
earlier on, the seventh minute. I think it's possibly going wide. We | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
talked about the pitch being lively and that can help. I think it | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
arrives obvious top of Waterworth. Did well with the block. Gets the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
cross and blocks it. Brilliant save. Turning point possibly of the game. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
Gets a toe on it. Great reaction save. Keeps it level. Everyone says | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
how that can affect the game. It's one of those ones, on another day, | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
Waterworth, you can see he's got a yard on Marshall. If he arrives a | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
second later, it's going in the back of the net. Linfield don't take any | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
chances. So important to get the goal on the ascendancy. They are not | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
out and out chances, you know. I think Glenavon will be happy with | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
that. Keeping Linfield at a distance. The half chances are not | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
even half chances, I don't think they've pressurised the game in the | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
right area, Linfield, to put Glenavon under more pressure. Where | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
should they be pressurising, what are you saying they should be doing | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
differently? They are a yard late into the box, and that's just in | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
your brain. We saw earlier on, the ball came in and Ross Gaynor should | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
have been attacking the game, they got down the side clipped a nice | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
ball in and Gaynor has stayed out on the edge, instead of being on the | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
six yard line to head in. It's taking that extra, a bit like what | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
we talked about with Glenavon hunting the game, their left back | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
being in the six yard line. Linfield aren't doing that. We picked out | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Joel Cooper as one to watch. Let's take a look. Cross or shot? First of | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
all, it's controlled magnificent. Sets his man up, cuts inside. On | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
another day, that's in the top corner and it's a wonderful goal. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Only he will know if he was trying to guide it into the top corner. I | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
think he is crossing it. It turned that wave that Linfield had at the | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
start. That got the crowd on side again. From there, they picked their | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
game up and had a little ten or 15 moments and that was one of those | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
moments that got Glenavon going. We talked about that with Thomas and | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
they said it happens every day but I think the ref got this spot on? I | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
can understand where Paul is coming from, from the distance he was at, | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
probably looks like two or three players going in for the challenge. | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
We look at that again. Ciaran Martyn catches Callacher. Credit to the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
referee, we didn't want to be looking at referee mistakes, he gets | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
it 100% bang on there. We saw Ciaran coming on, saying it's a foul all | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
day, over the player's legs, then the ball breaks, the foul committed | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
by Martyn I felt? Yes. If the ball had become available and Martyn | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
dived in and put it into the net, have you had said fair enough goal | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
but he catches Callacher, the ball doesn't move. | :26:19. | :26:54. | |
he just went a second early and the two centre-backs stepped up. | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Linfield will have to go into their dressing room and work out what | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
their plan is. I would like to see them pressed the game. You will both | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
enjoy this. Today's Irish Cup Final is a landmark moment for our Jacqui, | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
and today brings him. Call. -- fail circle. | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
AM looking for it to my 29th Irish Cup Final. 1992 was my first | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
commentary for the BBC and it just happened to be Glenavon two, | :27:38. | :27:47. | |
Linfield one. Is that an omen for today? You're not nervous, | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
experience teaches you not to be nervous but apprehensive because | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
it's like playing, you prepare. You have to care and you have to worry | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
and then you can put one, and to meet its performing. It's | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
journalistic. The research, the work, but you are also a performer. | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
You have to perform, when that red light goes on, when the whistle | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
blows, it's unscripted. I've always called it live theatre. You could | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
have a goal, a bad tackle, a man sent off, but it's all there, so was | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
Roy Walker said, just say what you see. I thought I had the best of it | :28:35. | :28:45. | |
with the 1982 and 1986 teams getting for cup finals, then David Healy | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
scoring goals for fun. The flag stays down. Then he hit it and I | :28:51. | :28:59. | |
said, Healy! Which I said quite a few times and that was a memorable | :29:00. | :29:07. | |
result. The old Windsor Park, I thought it was going to crumble that | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
night. Those are memories that will always be with me and all the rest | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
of the fans. You've been a great servant to | :29:15. | :29:27. | |
Northern Ireland, the sport and the BBC. Jackie, Jackie, Jackie | :29:28. | :29:41. | |
Fullerton! Are you enjoying it? My advice to younger people is to work. | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
If you put into work and you have that little bit of quality some | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
sort, knowledge of the game, it might happen. All the talk is of | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
impending relegation. What do you say to the Taggart and McNamee who | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
are hot on your heels? Not a chance! Know, take that again. | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
You're living the moment as a fan, which basically I am. I just been | :30:17. | :30:24. | |
lucky enough to be a guy who managed to get the microphone. People might | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
ask me, are you sad to be leaving. I'm not sad. Yes, you're sad that | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
something is coming to an end but I've had such a great career in TV | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
over 40 years, I've been blessed. He once said to me in his own way, | :30:40. | :31:01. | |
Mark, one day this could all be yours, but I said, Jackie, all I | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
want is their hair. Can I say, can you believe it? | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
And I still have some of the hair, Mark. That was a nice piece. I've | :31:12. | :31:19. | |
been lucky to meet a lot of people like Alex Ferguson and that's been | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
one of the perks of the game, and this man I have known since he had | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
long blonde hair and a big rumbustious centre-half, and he's | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
now manager of the law mean that United, the club I own, so I'm happy | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
he is working for me -- Ballymena. Thank you very much indeed. | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
Jackie, if you look behind you, Thomas Kane is there with a few days | :31:47. | :31:57. | |
you might know. Yes, that is Darren, all three of Jackie's sons are | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
sports journalists. He is a fixture in the press boxes, not just here | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
but all over the world. How special was today for him? It was quite an | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
emotional day for dad. When he started out in TV, it was 1973, I | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
was three years old and here we are at doing a comment to read today and | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
I'm a wizened middle-aged man so it's been an incredible career for | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
him and I admire his drive and his professionalism and his desire to | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
work. I'm sure he will miss it but he will enjoy his retirement. Thank | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
you, Darren. There is only one Jackie Fullerton MBE. Thank you, | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
Thomas, and thank you, Darren, for those lovely words. I'll give you | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
that money afterwards. He'll be lucky! Let's get back to the game. | :32:54. | :33:03. | |
Very nice tribute there, memories, and I now have to try and | :33:04. | :33:12. | |
concentrate, David. Can you hear, David? Have you done this before, | :33:13. | :33:23. | |
David? First time, Jack! That was a fantastic tribute, and richly | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
deserved. Back to the business. Ward has had a testing time today. Lowry | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
goes right, Paul Smyth. A chance to deliver a cross, get a | :33:37. | :33:46. | |
corner instead, the ball out of play. This is what David Healy would | :33:47. | :33:53. | |
have wanted, Linfield to go right at the Navan and try to snatch an early | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
goal, putting pressure on immediately, and they have got a | :33:59. | :33:59. | |
corner. Plenty of movement in there. It's not a bad ball, they are | :34:00. | :34:13. | |
looking for a handball. They aren't going to get it. I can't see him | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
getting that. I think it was Ciaran Martyn who was there. We can see | :34:21. | :34:28. | |
that in full but it was good defending and quite rightly, he's | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
given a pawn. -- corner. There could be a brake on here. What | :34:34. | :34:57. | |
they good ball. Gone to the cross. Sean Ward just got it away. They | :34:58. | :35:07. | |
were almost caught. Chris talk at half-time about counterattacking | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
play and there Mark Patton brought forward a great place but on this | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
occasion his team-mates couldn't keep up with him. On recent form, | :35:16. | :35:23. | |
Linfield have lost just one of their last 13. Glenavon, they have lost | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
three of their last 13, so Linfield slightly better form but there are | :35:30. | :35:37. | |
even further behind! It's Andy Hall, I believe, who stuck it in the | :35:38. | :35:48. | |
corner. Glenavon, the 3-1 underdogs, art 2-0 up. Three minutes after the | :35:49. | :35:56. | |
break Gary Hamilton cannot believe it. Hall, sixth goal of the season, | :35:57. | :36:08. | |
second in the cup. And what a stunner for Linfield. We talked | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
about Linfield trying to get that equalising goal and instead it's | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
Glenavon, and I don't want to pick people out but defensively Linfield | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
have to do that are there. It was through the legs of Matthew Clarke. | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
He took a good first touch, Andy Hall, and he finished it. A lay-off | :36:35. | :36:42. | |
in a championship last season and here he is scoring in an Irish Cup | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
Final. That's football. He took a great first touch but he shouldn't | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
have been given the time or space. Linfield are right back at Glenavon. | :36:55. | :37:06. | |
Let's see this year. That's a free kick that should be a booking. I | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
haven't seen a card. That was premeditated to hold Mr Waterworth | :37:17. | :37:17. | |
up. They have to defend, but my | :37:18. | :37:36. | |
goodness, 48 minutes, 2-0. But there is a long, long way to go. | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
Aaron Burns has 27 goals this season. He was there. That man | :37:45. | :37:59. | |
again, Jonathan Tuffey, get it up and over. Some people might say that | :38:00. | :38:07. | |
was a strict board take. You have to get there. In comes the corner. It's | :38:08. | :38:21. | |
not awake yet. Back into the middle. That could cause some problems. | :38:22. | :38:30. | |
Glenavon break. They get a lucky bounce. | :38:31. | :38:42. | |
And this core Linfield is a testing period. The players' own mental | :38:43. | :38:52. | |
strength, their belief, here we have the ball taken down by Aaron Burns. | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
I don't see him getting a multi-for that. Absolutely not. He didn't have | :38:58. | :39:12. | |
his arm out in anyway. Even he can't laugh at that, Braniff, you don't | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
often see that but he got the first goal. He has nothing to smile about, | :39:17. | :39:24. | |
David Healy. He will wonder if we can leave it for the next five | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
minutes to see how layers respond or do we make a change to shake things | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
up. I know there was a lot of hurt in the dressing room, when they lost | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
that Shield final earlier this season and David Healy told them to | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
mark the state in their diaries and they would try to get to the cup | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
final and make amends. They got to the cup final but at this moment | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
they are far from making amends. 52 minutes almost gone, we need a bit | :39:58. | :40:06. | |
of magic from somebody. Andy Waterworth, the talismanic skipper, | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
they need a goal from somewhere. The difficulty is that you get a | :40:10. | :40:20. | |
little more tents, you misplaced passes, as has just been the case, | :40:21. | :40:27. | |
and also Glenavon don't have to chase the game, so I am not saying | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
they will sit back and invite Linfield on but they maybe don't | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
have to throw men on as quickly, so when they are defending they can be | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
quick on the counterattack and in field can be susceptible to a third, | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
so Linfield need to be careful they don't concede a third. A fine | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
dividing line because they have to go for it. Glenavon get it back. | :40:53. | :41:02. | |
Lovely ball, Bradley, the willing runner. He did so well, Bruce | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
Marshall gets it in. Lovely bit of skill. Braniff, who | :41:09. | :41:29. | |
celebrated his new contract with a goal, free kick given, Glenavon | :41:30. | :41:38. | |
shout for a multi-perhaps but it was always a free kick. Glenavon or | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
almost playing with a swagger. You see real confidence when they get | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
the ball around the box and maybe desperation from Linfield making | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
sure they do not go a third goal down. Bradley, he tries to curl it | :41:54. | :42:09. | |
but out of luck. It's a while since he got a goal. In February he got | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
two against Portadown and then he was suspended for eight weeks but he | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
hasn't scored since he got back, but he's played his part to date with | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
his workrate. No doubt, benefited are some great pressing by Andrew | :42:28. | :42:29. | |
Hall. Smyth has done well, he gets the | :42:30. | :42:42. | |
cross in but it's cleared away, however briefly. And Linfield David | :42:43. | :42:51. | |
away. Braniff holding off the challenge of Haughey. The man who | :42:52. | :43:00. | |
laid in England myth will ball. He's been round the few corners, Kevin | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
Braniff, he knows the game. Just looking at the bench for Linfield, | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
Kirk Millar, Niall Quinn, midfielder, Steven Fallon can play | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
either wing and we have the goalkeeper, Ross Glendening, so you | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
might see Kirk Millar as one of the changes. I think you're right. I | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
watched him in the latter part of the season and when he has played he | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
has impressed me and you called at 110% correct. He is coming on. How | :43:35. | :43:48. | |
do I do it? Kirk Millar coming on. Aaron Burns is going to play wide | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
left now, Kirk is going to play wide right. Sensible change, they had to | :43:53. | :44:00. | |
do something. As I predict that, there I see it, he was the obvious | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
choice. They had to do something because they would have wanted to | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
get a goal, they didn't, court again, great finish by Andrew Hall. | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
You can see the disappointment in Matthew Clarke. No one wants to come | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
off and eight cup final. Especially when you work to done. But managers | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
have to make decisions for the team and they would was correct there. | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
Healy likes Kirk Millar because this is his 45th appearance of the | :44:36. | :44:44. | |
season, Linfield's 53rd game of the season, he has tough decisions to | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
make. He hoping this change will reinvigorate the team. Bradley has | :44:50. | :44:58. | |
done well, that is not a bad ball. Young Smyth has come over the side, | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
Marshall is showing great pace. This is good from Linfield. Kirk Millar | :45:05. | :45:13. | |
did well to retrieve the situation. Here is Lowry, it nearly got to him. | :45:14. | :45:21. | |
Paul Smyth hit it and it was deflected, Rhys Marshall putting his | :45:22. | :45:24. | |
body on the line to get that one away. It was a great ball by Sean | :45:25. | :45:34. | |
Ward, and that was great offending, applauded by Jonathan Tuffey. Over | :45:35. | :45:45. | |
it comes, oh, dear. Jimmy Callacher, who scored in the cup final here two | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
years ago when Glentoran beat Cliftonville in the final, he'd | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
looked like he thought he should have scored again in a final. Jimmy | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
gets away from his marker, clever movement but when you get that | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
space, the big fellow will be disappointed. Usually he is clinical | :46:07. | :46:13. | |
in those situations. It is getting to the stage, in this final, coming | :46:14. | :46:20. | |
up to the hour, that nothing is going for Linfield. No, there's | :46:21. | :46:28. | |
certainly plenty of effort and commitment but unfortunately | :46:29. | :46:38. | |
Glenavon are very much in control. Ross Gaynor couldn't keep it in. And | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
when I say unfortunately, I mean unfortunately for Linfield, I don't | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
want people to think I am biased. Perish the thought, David. You are a | :46:52. | :46:59. | |
Ballymena man now, remember that. Very much so, Jack. We're laughing | :47:00. | :47:07. | |
but it is no laughing matter for Linfield or their fans. In 2012, you | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
were the manager here, a glorious double, but since then neither of | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
the major trophies. David Healy was hoping to put an end to that | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
drought. This is good from Hall, and Braniff was in at the near post. | :47:32. | :47:40. | |
Just couldn't get the touch. And young Cooper got a touch there. | :47:41. | :47:51. | |
Absolutely fun task. Superb ball. Here's Braniff, all the way through. | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
Gareth Deane has lost his record of keeping clean sheets after two | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
first-half goals, one first-half goal, rather. Then one three minutes | :48:04. | :48:14. | |
afterwards. One hour exactly of the game gone. That was almost a good | :48:15. | :48:25. | |
ball. Ross Gaynor raided it through. Waterworth couldn't capitalise. | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
Sometimes when you are behind, you just don't get that pass exactly | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
right, the ball either goes ahead or behind you, you don't get the | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
fortune you need. You're always a little horrid. -- curried. And | :48:44. | :48:52. | |
because you are hurrying, you end up becoming more anxious and making | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
mistakes. It's easy appear, you can say he should have done this or | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
that, but a different matter out there, especially when you are | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
trailing in a cup final and there are 30 minutes left. Well we may | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
have played in different generations, we have played so we | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
know what it is like for those players. I would have preferred | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
different eras to generations, David, but anyway... I know where | :49:23. | :49:31. | |
you are coming from. There's Andy Kilmartin getting booked, he could | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
have been booked earlier. That's one that he took for the team, just | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
breaking plates up. Not allowing them to get into a fluid rhythm. | :49:41. | :49:48. | |
There's a long way to go and eight Linfield goal will change the whole | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
concept and psyche of this game. The keeper comes, Tuffey does his job | :49:53. | :50:03. | |
well. You absolutely love that as a defender, when the ball comes into | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
the box, your goalkeeper is very commanding, there's the foul I was | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
talking about, he knows what he was doing that then when the ball is put | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
into the box, Jonathan takes it in a most accomplished manner. | :50:18. | :50:25. | |
It's good goalkeeping by young Deane. Well done the goalkeeper. | :50:26. | :50:36. | |
Superb goalkeeping by Gareth Deane. Gets behind the defender, puts the | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
ball in the box, and Gareth court. He had to, did very well. Ball | :50:44. | :50:57. | |
through to the keeper. If we look back at that Kilmartin booking when | :50:58. | :51:06. | |
we get a moment. Through when taking, it's a long ball and it's | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
cleared. And there is a free kick, and there is another yellow card. | :51:13. | :51:21. | |
Ciaran Martyn goes in the book. I don't think he can have any | :51:22. | :51:29. | |
arguments there. Jimmy was going to get to the ball first and a little | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
experience taking one for the team, albeit they conceded a free kick, | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
there is Kilmartin, who was also booked earlier, so that's the two | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
centre Linfield players both on yellow cards and they need to tread | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
carefully. Linfield need a goal to get that into this cup final. Well | :51:51. | :51:57. | |
held by Tuffey, and a little nudge there on the keeper. Callacher | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
climbed so high that couldn't get the power into it. Well shepherded | :52:04. | :52:05. | |
from the ball by Conor Dillon. Lowry, a chance to make ground. He | :52:06. | :52:22. | |
didn't take it, and he gives it away. And that's not what the doctor | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
ordered, or what David Healy ordered. Ross Gaynor looks for a | :52:28. | :52:38. | |
long ball. And there is a little bit of a late challenge from Stephen | :52:39. | :52:49. | |
Lowry. And that's just frustration on his part. Here we will see it. I | :52:50. | :53:00. | |
didn't see a card. The reason why, I think Stephen Lowry has been taken | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
into consideration. Spare a thought for that fellow in the picture. This | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
is a time when you are so helpless as a manager. You can do nothing | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
when Europe players crossed that white line. You can maybe make | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
tactical changes but it is down to the players and David will be hoping | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
his players can get some inspiration somewhere. Waterworth is getting | :53:30. | :53:37. | |
that inspiration now. It's our way for the corner. The hope will build | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
in the North stand which houses Linfield fans. Good luck by Dillon. | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
It is true no lack of effort I Linfield, they are doing everything | :53:51. | :53:57. | |
they have two get at least a first goal back. It's Millar, the subject, | :53:58. | :54:06. | |
with the corner, it's a good ball in. Oh, dear. Kirk Millar, a week | :54:07. | :54:20. | |
ball. A little flick with the outside of the foot. Cooper did so | :54:21. | :54:28. | |
well. It may not be over, but it is now. Mulgrew get it back to Deane in | :54:29. | :54:39. | |
goal. Millar is being closed down by Ciaran Martyn and you have to give | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
Glenavon credit, they are to nil up but their work ethic is top drawer. | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
It's their work rate but also coordination, they are pressing the | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
ball well and squeezing the life out of any Linfield attacks. You can see | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
the shape of the head from Ross Gaynor and that satisfied grin of | :55:03. | :55:11. | |
Andy Hall. Good defensive play and you can see the applause and | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
appreciation of the Glenavon fans. Mark Sykes is coming on. Ciaran | :55:18. | :55:27. | |
Martyn, the skipper, he was 36 in March, he's putting a good shift 67 | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
minutes, so he's played his part. A big hug from Gary Hamilton. He's | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
played a tremendous part, no doubt, but don't be thinking this is | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
because he is 36, he made another challenge and I think Gary is | :55:47. | :55:57. | |
thinking he doesn't want... To men. It might be to do with the legs but | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
Sykes is coming on, another impressive performer, another one of | :56:03. | :56:10. | |
the exciting young players. All right, I said the wrong thing, no | :56:11. | :56:23. | |
need to on about it. -- hammer on. Linfield, 68 minutes gone, Braniff | :56:24. | :56:32. | |
helps it on its way. Now there is a chance here, and early ball would | :56:33. | :56:41. | |
put Bradley in. Cooper goes down. Goalkick, simulation. I would like | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
to see this again. I'm not so sure we will have the luxury of this. He | :56:50. | :56:55. | |
is going at pace. No, he's brought the challenge. I wasn't sure from | :56:56. | :57:07. | |
the first angle. Let's look again. The trickery, the pace, no. Well | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
done, Raymond Hetherington. Good refereeing. Excellent. Let's give | :57:15. | :57:22. | |
the referee the praise, they get enough criticism. That was Dillon | :57:23. | :57:31. | |
with the header. Linfield still coming, trying to get forward. | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
Nearly threw from Lowry but not quite. Andy Waterworth was on his | :57:38. | :57:48. | |
way but didn't get to him. We just need somebody in blue to light a | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
fuse and produce that bit of quality. We haven't really seen | :57:54. | :58:01. | |
that. 20 minutes left. This is the time when we give back to the first | :58:02. | :58:08. | |
15 minutes and I referred to when you were in the ascendancy you want | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
to profit, but Linfield didn't do so, at now they are having to play | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
with aspiration and throw men forward and hope something comes | :58:18. | :58:25. | |
off, which is the right thing to do. Yeah, they have got to go for it. | :58:26. | :58:35. | |
Good challenge there, Rhys Marshall. Just 21, this is his 121st | :58:36. | :58:43. | |
appearance, so I think he might clock up quite a number of games but | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
he could be fit for a higher level off at all. He has that pace about. | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
-- about him. Burns. It's away for another corner. | :58:54. | :59:12. | |
Kilmartin was there. Quiet, unassuming but a performer. You | :59:13. | :59:22. | |
would almost think Linfield have to get something now. | :59:23. | :59:32. | |
In goes the header. Tuffey. Easy for him. | :59:33. | :59:42. | |
Ross Gaynor. No problems. Cooper, lovely. Lovely again. Braniff waited | :59:43. | :59:58. | |
too long. Well closed down. Give Ross Gaynor corrode there, right on | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
top of him -- credit there, right on top of him. | :00:04. | :00:26. | |
Glenavon are here now in the final after beating several teams | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
beforehand. It's their 17th final, won it just six times. The last time | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
was two years ago. What a job Gary Hamilton is doing. It's not over | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
yet, of course. But to all intents and purposes, it's a long way back | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
for the men in blue. They are finding it difficult to get the | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
final pass in, the penetrative pass, to create that opportunity. At the | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
moment, Glenavon are very much in control and charge. Great ball from | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Braniff. Haughey. Cooper. Lovely play. Kilmartin. | :01:12. | :01:38. | |
Braniff thought he should get something there. | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
I think Glenavon players thought there that there might have been a | :01:48. | :02:03. | |
card on display. It wasn't a good tackle. No, I have to agree. Back in | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
the day they would have said it's a typical centre forward tackle and | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
they don't really mean it, yet those tackles can hurt you. Very much so. | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
Touch on. Mulgrew. You become anxious and your touch | :02:25. | :02:57. | |
and pass isn't as measured. Gaynor. Millar. Waterworth. No real supply | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
of the ball today, Waterworth. They have got a free kick, Linfield. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Coming up to 15 minutes left of the 90. | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
Yellow card for Mr Kelly. He's asking what for. He knows exactly | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
what for. Wastes another few seconds as well | :03:25. | :03:45. | |
as the clock runs down. Need to conjure up something quickly or else | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
this final is done and dusted in favour of Glenavon. Gaynor. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Callacher. Can't get to it. Dillon with the header. Braniff. Given it | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
away. A bit of a late challenge there. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Lowry thinks it was a bit of play acting but he's been booked. And | :04:11. | :04:23. | |
that is frustration. To be fair to Raymond Hetherington, it was the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
previous tackle that maybe he could have been backed for. He had no | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
choice. He's going for a 3-4-3. Less than 15 | :04:33. | :04:53. | |
to go, they are going to have to go for it. All-or-nothing now for the | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
boss. Very much so. He's worried at the time-wasting | :04:56. | :05:20. | |
there. There's the flick-on. The south stand below us is noisy and | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
they are singing. They can see the Irish cup being paraded through | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Lurgan in the next few days so why shouldn't they be happy? Underdogs. | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
Linfield five six favourites. Glenavon 3-1 you could have got. I | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
said they were generous odds at the start. | :05:47. | :06:13. | |
Linfield don't need that. 12 minutes left. Made the contactical switch. | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
He's gone with three at the back. Quinn has come to the left. He's | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
pushed another man forward. They are simply going for broke. They have | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
to. Waterworth. Millar. Away for the corner. | :06:43. | :06:58. | |
It wasn't a great one. Hit by Waterworth but the angle was against | :06:59. | :07:11. | |
him. It's been that sort of day for Waterworth and Linfield. Good effort | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
though. Great effort. Got in front of the defender very well. Quinn, | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
plenty of pace on it. Andrew didn't have to do too much. Unfortunately | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
for him, it was off target. No movement at the dug-outs I'm | :07:28. | :07:51. | |
told. Quinn. Smyth. Free kick for that. | :07:52. | :08:04. | |
That wasn't a good tackle. Not sure what he's arguing about. I think | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
what you'll see is that certainly there is a clear, clear, clear free | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
kick, but then there's a little, you don't see nit the shot there, but | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
there was a little Beckham-like kickout by Smyth. He's got that in | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
his locker young Smyth hasn't he? That's what Rhys Marshall was | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
bringing to the referee's attention. Raymond's right to ignore it, to be | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
fair. Are we to get a cameo role from the | :08:32. | :08:44. | |
player/manager? 35 years of age. He's suffered a lot of injuries over | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
his career at different times. I think this might be his last season. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
But at the moment, Glenavon are defending a free kick. Ten minutes | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
left. A Linfield goal would give us an exciting finish. | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
David with nine minutes left, it looks as though it will be settled | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
in the 90 minutes. You have to think about man-of-the-match? Certainly | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
there's been several very impressive performers. Bradley has worked | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
tirelessly. Not yet, day slid. -- David. OK, | :09:23. | :09:35. | |
Jack. We'll leave it to the last minute. There are a few candidates | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
you would say at this moment in time. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Linfield fans in the North Stand, quiet in the main but some still | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
animated hoping for something of a comeback to get back into this | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
final. Doesn't look as the It's going to | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
happen. But who knows. Eight minutes left. | :10:04. | :10:20. | |
Glenavon are getting every man behind the ball. Ward. Mullah should | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
have been expecting that. Good run by Ward. He'll be disappointed. | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
There he is. I think they are saying to him, are you sure you are going | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
on. If you remember back to the last victory in the Irish Cup, he came on | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
and basically settled things down, calmed nerves. And he got a | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Ballymena man on. Chance for a third. Braniff. He couldn't make it | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
a real double celebration for himself. I would have put my house | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
on Braniff finishing that. So cool, so much skill. The keeper did well, | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
to his credit. Here comb Linfield. It's all happening. Linfield still | :11:26. | :11:35. | |
trying to play their football. Great ball in. Waterworth should have done | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
better with that. Surely he was there for the header and I think the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
look tells you he knows that. No doubt about it. Glorious cross in. | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
Appealing for a corner which he knows he wasn't getting. | :11:56. | :12:14. | |
Enjoying the result. Here is the man coming on for his fourth final. He | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
won two of those, one with Portadown and one two years ago with Glenavon. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
He's 35, in his twilight, but as a manager, he's in the Spotlight. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Couldn't have put it any better. Last week, he's centre half, this | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
week centre forward. Must play tribute to him. What a contribution | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
he's made today, Bradley. Gary's just come on to settle the nerves | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
and help manage the game out. I'm not sure if viewers at home | :12:51. | :13:09. | |
could hear that, but I'm glad of that announcement, that the pitch is | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
kept clear of fans because it allows whoever is victorious, the players | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
to enjoy their moment, and the fans in the stands to enjoy it also. | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
Absolutely. Linfield won against Bangor in 1994. 22 years ago. Just a | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
meaningless start for this Linfield team who 'll be so hurt and | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
devastated by this result. Time running away from them. It's hard to | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
cope with, David. I was unlucky, I didn't get to play in a final, you | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
did. You didn't win it, as a player, but you've had the devastation of | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
losing finals, as a player. It really is a most gut-wrenching | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
feeling. As a player, it was really an awful | :14:12. | :14:27. | |
draining doiventing feeling. There is such a build-up to this massive | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
day -- disappointing. Last day of the season. When you are second | :14:34. | :14:45. | |
best, you really do feel low. Here comes Waterworth. | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
David Healy, it's all gone wrong. His second Cup Final of the season. | :14:56. | :15:45. | |
Two minutes left. Man-of-the-match time? Who's won it? Some outstanding | :15:46. | :15:57. | |
performances. Tuffey had a very, very important save to make. He's | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
been very, very safe in what he's done. Very assured. He's proved best | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
goalkeeper in the league. Centre of the park. Kilmartin was absolutely | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
excellent. Wide areas, we had Joel Cooper, Andy Hall, with the work | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
rate of Owen Bradley. But for me, the man-of-the-match has got to go | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
to Kevin Braniff. Kevin Braniff is the BBC man-of-the-match. When | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
things aren't going for you, Jack, they just don't go for you. Any | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
other day, Andrew would have got his touch right and buried it. You can | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
see the frustration. Kevin Braniff, marvellous first goal. It was a | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
better goal than people give credit for because the ball just touched | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
the ground before he hit it, it was almost a little half volley. Ball | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
control was excellent and also work rate for the team. You mentioned | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
about him back defending at corner kicks and free kicks. It's been a | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
most comprehensive and holistic performance. | :17:18. | :17:29. | |
His side are about to win the Irish cup, second time in three years. Can | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
you believe it? Linfield will have something to say about it at the | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
death. Doesn't look like it now. Sean Ward. Hamilton is playing like | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
a man possessed. Couple of free kicks as well. He's | :17:50. | :18:08. | |
helping his team just manage the game out. | :18:09. | :18:23. | |
Cooper is coming off for Kearns. He's had a very, very good match. | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
That's how well he played! Appreciation there. | :18:35. | :18:58. | |
Way over the far side, the left-wing, it was a wonder goal. But | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
did he mean it? He'll always claim he did and why not. Celebrating | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
already. The new coach there at Glenavon, formerly of Ballymena, | :19:21. | :19:21. | |
he's played in a cup himself. A fantastic job has been done at | :19:22. | :19:46. | |
Glenavon and the appreciation for the coach, the coaching staff and | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
the players, you have got to say that the contributions shouldn't go | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
unnoticed. I hardly heard a word of that, the director was given end of | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Machin struckions and he was very loud in my ear. But it's all | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
petering out -- end of match instructions. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
I haven't seen the sign from the linesman or the fourth official. | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
From our vantage point, we are out of sight. Who designed this stadium? | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
! There can't be more than four minutes I wouldn't have thought. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
We've had a few... Three minutes of time added. You can feel in many | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
ways, you give credit to the winners, there they are, about to | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
enjoy themselves, but you look at the North Stand and the Linfield | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
fans who've been starved of major success, it's a sad day for them. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
It's a difficult day. It's a frustrating day. From a fans' point | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
of view, you can understand why some of them are leaving early. Others | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
will stay and try and just give their team all the backing they can. | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
It's all over! The cup goes to Glenavon. Gary Hamilton's second cup | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
success in three years for him. Unbelievable. Seventh time to win | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
the trophy, throughs the ?20,000 in prize money which helps. The success | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
two years ago, they beat Ballymena United. Third in the league again. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Into Europe again. The financial bonanza of that sum, ?200,000. And | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
Hamilton's done it again. David, he's certainly making his mark here | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
and the fans love him. There's a few tears for Tuffey as well. That's | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
nice. So proud of him. He put so much of his game down to the man | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
that's with him there. What a contribution. Kelly was absolutely | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
Nosh mouse in that defence -- ginormous. We can go pitch side. | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
Thomas, it's all yours. To Glenavon players singing in the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
rain, congratulations. You are the man-of-the-match. What was the key | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
to the victory? We were told to go out today and press as hard on the | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
pitch. The first 15 minutes we started off sloppy but after the | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
first 15, we then controlled the game. I don't think it was a great | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
game but I think we controlled the game. I don't think they had many | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
chances. We managed to take ours. That was the key today. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
One just before half time, one just after half time. How important were | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
the timings of the goals? Yes, no better time to score. Two great | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
times to score goals obviously, but it's just a great day obviously to | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
win this, on our home patch, makes it beer. -- better. You seem to have | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
a great spirit within the squad, has the manager helped create that? Of | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
course, he's great with the lads. You have to give the lads credit, | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
they are a great bunch of lads to play with. It's a pleasure to play | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
with him. You are about to get a medal and a trophy, but here is your | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
man-of-the-match trophy as well. We can make our way over to the rest of | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
the Glenavon players over here and try and get a word with some more of | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
them. Kevin getting his land shake and most of them are over here. | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
Ciaran Martyn is the first we have come across here. You deserved that? | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
Over the 90 minutes, we fully deserved that. Initially controlled | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
the first 15-20 minutes, looked nervous. It wasn't a spectacle, it | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
was a grind really. We got the goal before half time and it set us up. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
We scored early in the second half and hung on from there. People might | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
forget it now, your keeper who's been immense all season, a very | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
important save made by him? He's been immense for us, as you say, and | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
you don't expect it from him. At times we can be sloppy and rerely on | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
him and he's bailed us out at times. Inspirational for us. Thank you very | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
much. Back with more reaction ahead of the presentation. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Thank you very much indeed. There's a young man who was in tears. He | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
said this would be right up there with the highlights of his career | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
and he's played for Northern Ireland, he's played in Scotland, | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
full-time football, putting on his Mark Farren T-shirt and that must be | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
his young son. That is CT, Carter Tuffey. What a name! They are ready | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
to enjoy it. Oh, there's Carter, what a boy he is. That's a girl! | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
That's not his son, that's actually his little niece. You know the whole | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
family! Full-time score in this Tennents Irish Cup Final, they'll be | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
celebrating in Lurgan, Glenavon 2 already 0 Linfield. -- Glenavon 2-0 | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
Linfield. They'll not drop the silverware. The day has belonged to | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
the Mid Ulster Blues, it's all about Glenavon unquestionably the better | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
team's won. Let's go pitch side for more reaction from Thomas. Fantastic | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
scenes here. Gary Hamilton, you made a cameo appearance at the end but | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
most of the work was done in the dressing room. How proud are you? | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
They all did excellent, 1-11. They were brilliant. They were absolutely | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
outstanding. Proud as punch. All the back room staff, thank you for all | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
their help, three, four, four-and-a-half years I've been | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
here, thanks to all the directors and the fans, they are all back in | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
numbers again. Great to see. It's lovely for us, good for the players | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
and they have been like an extra man foreus all the way through the | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
tournament. Especially Mark Farren, that was for Mark, his wife was here | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
today and it's great, it was for him and his boys and his wife. Two Irish | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
cups now, super. The supporters, the players are | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
loving these scenes, they played a huge role as well today? They have | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
been brilliant. Like a 12th man. Last year, under Europe, last year | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
in the Irish cup win, they have been excellent every single year. It's | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
great to have them back in numbers supporting the boys the way they | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
are, it's a great feeling. Sometimes you can't appreciate the fans | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
enough, it's been superb. You've got a lovely mix of experience and youth | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
within the squad. The likes of Kilmartin, Martyn alongside | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Marshall, Cooper, players like that, how important is it? So important to | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
have Kilmartin, Kelly, all those, it's so important to have them and | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
I'm so delighted for that man there. Last year he got let go by Linfield, | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
to come back against the team that let him go and perform the way he's | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
done to get a clean sheet, sums him up, brilliant. We heard your | :28:10. | :28:18. | |
man-of-the-match centre half for the reserves, played a couple today is. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
That the last cameo? Hopefully not. Well, again I wouldn't mind if we | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
can get not enough people I would have to play but hopefully it's not | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
the last time. I'll come on as sub next year if need be. We'll let you | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
enjoy the rest of the presentation. Apologies for the language, it's an | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
emotionally charged interview. We'll hopefully speak to the keeper who | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
played such a pivotal role today. The players are very conscious of | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
the facts that the supporters have play add key role. Also playing a | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
key role today for the final time, the one, the only, Mr Jackie | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
Fullerton. Thank you very much indeed. That | :29:10. | :29:19. | |
expression says it all. You can understand their disappointment. | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
Lovely shot there. A little bit of bobo required. As a grandad I know | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
about these things. David will have to go up and receive a losers' | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
medal. He'll do it with dignity. The It's not really what David Healy | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
would want. But Linfield, they are in Europe, they were second in the | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
table, they can make a serious challenge next season for the | :29:49. | :29:49. | |
league. Smith he will remember this day. | :29:50. | :30:10. | |
Glenallen! Blaenavon, what a cheer and what a reception they are | :30:11. | :30:19. | |
getting -- Glenavon. The T-shirts are in memory of Mark Farren who | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
passed away, well remembered today. His wife, led Glenavon out. Lovely | :30:25. | :30:33. | |
touch, added to the day, even better that they won it. They are paying | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
tribute to both sets of supporters, in the 10th minute they turned | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
together in that fabulous applause and look at that now, every single | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
Glenavon player, the shirt on. He is enjoying it. I think that was Kris | :30:56. | :31:15. | |
Lindsay. They go through it. I have lost my note with the name of the | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
man from tenants on it. My apologies to him. Brian Beattie is that man. | :31:19. | :31:30. | |
And it is so good, in their first year of a five-year agreement and a | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
much-needed sponsor for the Irish Cup. There is the contrasting mood. | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
That is the hardest thing to do as a player and as a team, when you are | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
defeated, you have to stand there with grace and applaud obviously the | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
victors, were really worry you want to be is in out of the road. Credit | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
to the Linfield players, credit to those supporters of Linfield who | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
have stayed behind to support their team and acknowledge their reference | :32:07. | :32:16. | |
and also those of Glenavon. Kris Lindsay there. Some will be | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
surprised he was left out today. Here we are. Ciaran Martyn shares | :32:23. | :32:39. | |
the joy. Glenavon FC! Absolute joy on those faces. And the fans in the | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
South stands, what were they now are, getting the cap, a former | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
Rattery in the background there. He is from the mid-Ulster area. Great | :32:52. | :32:58. | |
celebrations, there are 106 final, but that Windsor Park, the first | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
final at the new Windsor Park. As Gary said, these players are now | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
legends at the club, two years, two times in three years they have won | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
the cup. Marshall, pattern, Martin, the only survivors from three years | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
ago, how quickly the ball changes. Unbelievable, credit to Gary and his | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
management team in terms of their identification of players, their | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
recruitment of players and their consistency and what you have also | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
got to say is well done, not only to the victors but how they have | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
performed in the league. It has been quite impressive. | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
There will be a hot town in the old town tonight of Lurgan. There we | :33:47. | :33:54. | |
are. The celebrations will continue long into the night. Glenavon are | :33:55. | :34:03. | |
the champions, the Irish Cup winners 2016, they have beaten Linfield by | :34:04. | :34:13. | |
2-0. Thank you very much to debt -- David, Jeffrey and Jackie Fullerton. | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
Glenavon are the champ -- champions. Gary Hamilton has written himself a | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
little footnote in history, Gary Hamilton becomes the first manager | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
of Glenavon to win the cup twice and he has done it twice in three years. | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
Stephen Baxter and Chris Morgan both with me. The better side won. I do | :34:34. | :34:41. | |
not think there is any doubt. Linfield had the 15 minutes at the | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
start of the game where they were the better side, a couple of | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
chances, could not take them, from that point on, Glenavon dominated, | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
scored the goals, scored them at good times, the second one was | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
crucial so early in the second half, Linfield never recovered and | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
Glenavon had chances to extend that lead. That was at different moments | :35:02. | :35:12. | |
in the game. You fancied the blues. Bar that first 15 near it -- 50 | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
minute period of dominance, it did not happen. It started off like a | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
house on fire, they had three or four big chances but once Glenavon | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
got up the pitch, having weathered the storm, they grew in dominance in | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
the game, they ended up bossing the game and the second half performance | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
was clinical. I said at half-time, Linfield had no penetration at the | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
top end of the park, not committing bodies forward and had no goal | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
threat. Glenavon really ran away with it, they were miles the better | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
team. Owen Bradley, conscious that Ciaran Martyn described it as a | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
grind rather than spectacle, but the first Cup Final in this new national | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
stadium, it was more than a grind, it was a spectacle. I enjoyed | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
beginning. I thought that everyone tried to get the ball down and pass | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
it and use the wide areas well, sometimes when you're playing, you | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
are concentrating, not engaging a lot of ball into the box. He is a | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
defensive midfielder. Glenavon today, they worked the ball in good | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
areas, when you have a player like Kevin Braniff, who does something | :36:25. | :36:27. | |
special every time you get the ball, he will be disappointed he did not | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
score the goal, but he was brilliant. Let us go pitch side. | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
Thomas King, it is all yours. What a year it has been, what were you | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
doing last year? This time last year, I had just lost at | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
Warrenpoint. It is such a difference. How special was today? | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
It was really special, the whole build-up, I was itching to get out | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
on the pitch and luckily enough I ended up scoring. What a | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
contribution, tell us about your goal? I think I scoffed at. In years | :37:04. | :37:11. | |
to come, you will be telling that. You had them, they all go N. It is | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
all the thing, one goal. We will let you get back into the celebrations. | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
What a year for you as well, how much have you enjoyed the | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
experience? It has been unbelievable. What this club has | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
given to me, it is sensational. To go from where I was last year, to | :37:32. | :37:39. | |
get an opportunity, play week in week out, qualify for Europe, this | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
is enough. Was it a case of confidence for you? The fate they | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
showed a new? Yes. When you have a manager that back shoe to the | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
health, no matter what you do, he stands by you, that is phenomenal. | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
He installed that in me and words fail me, it has been incredible. | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
Enjoy today, you deserve it. Alan Bradley, come here, you have done it | :38:06. | :38:14. | |
again? First-ever final, never thought I would play here in the | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
errors Cup Final. Delighted. Very proud -- Irish Cup final. Great for | :38:22. | :38:28. | |
the club, look at that, what can you say. What is Gary like in the | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
dressing room? Last year things did not go right, Gary and I are best | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
friends. So credit to him, look at the job he has done. When he came to | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
the club, we were bottom, now we are one of the top clubs. Champions two | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
years out of three. What can we say? Enjoy yourself. I think everyone | :38:57. | :39:03. | |
here is enjoying the party. Thank you, of course Eoin Bradley, he is | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
renowned for his physicality, but a subtle dig that sent them on their | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
way. Joyous scenes and bridles, I do not know if that is Lurgan | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
champagne, but it is that Champagne moment. They have won the Irish Cup | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
for only the fourth time in their history and what a performance, | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
their leaders are at. 89 macro is superstitious, they all met in a | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
Belfast restaurant for breakfast, but Jonathan Tuffey brought rice and | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
beans, every match date since he was 16. He was outstanding. He made | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
saves at the right times when Linfield have the ascendancy, it was | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
the save he made with his foot against Stephen Lowry. In games like | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
this, the first goal can be so important, if Linfield get it, we | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
could have been talking about a different result, that save gave | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
Glenavon the belief, Linfield had a few chances, after that, I think a | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
lot of what he did was routine. What he does, he creates confidence in | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
his back four. They know that he has had a great season. I have not been | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
a defender but I know that as a team if you have a goalkeeper you can | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
rely on who makes saves it creates confidence in the team and he has | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
had a great day and you heard him talk about his season, it is pleased | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
to see him recover. There is Gary Hamilton with his grandfather, he | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
was not sure if he would make it this afternoon, he has made it and | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
he has witnessed this, Gary Hamilton, his grandson has guided | :40:43. | :40:45. | |
Glenavon to a second Irish Cup in three years and more broadly, no | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
other manager in the history of the Lurgan Blues has done that before. | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
Well done to Gary Hamilton, handshakes all round and I suspect | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
there will be patting on the back and applause for many many days to | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
come. There is another man who has done his bit, let me bring in | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
Stephen Baxter, I guess you can say that you were beaten by the cup | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
finalist, they beat you 4-3 in a classic, it was a formidable | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
performance this afternoon. They are thoroughly deserving of this. No | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
doubt, Glenavon have pushed us this year. They gave us hardest games. We | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
got a couple of wins in the league against them and they won the cup | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
game here for - three and that was a fantastic game of football to be | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
involved in. Both teams played well. You take your hat to them, Gary made | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
a couple of big decisions, playing Mark Patton at left back. He moved | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
Marshall to write back and he had a superb game. Jonathan Tuffey led | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
from the back, gave the instructions and bass the back four and they | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
looked assured. They did not take pressure from Linfield, there was no | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
press in the game from Linfield and that is down to players who know | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
what they are about. I want both of you to look at the broader picture, | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
a couple of penalty calls on the second half, talk us through these, | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
you feel the referee got these spot on. Is absolutely spot on. That goal | :42:16. | :42:25. | |
had a hand of Ciaran Martyn -- ball. He is asking for it, Aaron Burns, | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
but I would have been surprised to see the referee gave a penalty. He | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
is so close and his arms are tucked down by his side, no penalty. Up | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
comes the Joel Cooper incident and no penalty, you think that was ball | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
to hand rather than hand to ball. His arm has not gone out towards it. | :42:48. | :42:56. | |
The Cobra incident, -- Joel Cooper. The referee is in a good position, I | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
think he was going to ground before the challenge even came. He was | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
looking for a penalty, he probably should have played in Kevin Braniff. | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
He was on the right-hand side. You have to give him credit, perfectly | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
positioned. We said that at the start, the referee got all the big | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
decisions right. The goals, Stephen talk us through these, in reverse | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
order, the first of the goals in the second half first. Well taken and | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
conclusive. Great hold-up play. Smashing delivery into the box. My | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
severed from Bradley. I was pleased for him, he took his time, did not | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
panic, took one touch, flicked it up. Bradley took the overhead kick, | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
it breaks for him. Defensively, any queries. Sometimes the ball comes | :43:51. | :43:58. | |
into the box and you need to try and mark-up and credit to the opposing | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
team who get that goal away. It was a really nice touch from Hall. Here | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
is the gold from the first half. Watch this ball, it is magnificent. | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
Kevin Braniff was the man, he found the space, we see it in live play, | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
he came from 40 or 50 yards behind to put himself into the space to | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
score the goal and you have to ask where was the Linfield marking? | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
Intuitive understanding between the two from them. That is the | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
combination play you're working on all year, that is what makes you a | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
standout team and Glenavon have that in abundance. They say we come to | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
play, we come to attack and they took all the chances, put the | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
pressure on, once they weathered the first 15 minute storm, they kept | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
going after the game and they ran away with it in the end. We made a | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
lot about Jonathan Tuffey, as we look on at these celebration | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
pictures, the save is crucial. It is a magnificent reflex. That is nearly | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
in the net, his hands are up but he gets the foot out. Is this one even | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
better? Even better. He is watching the play, watching the ball all the | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
time, in position quickly, you have to know you are about, experience | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
taking over. He is barking out the orders, he was class today. It was | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
anything but a gimmick. I would say that he would fancy he would say | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
that most times. He was starting to move in the other direction and got | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
back and saved it. I made the point earlier, it is the confidence it | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
creates in others, defensively you know you have got a goalkeeper that | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
the other team have to do a lot to get past. The big performance from | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
him today. You mentioned the big performance, he has joined us, the | :45:53. | :45:55. | |
man with a big boys, Jackie Fullerton. I know you will be | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
nervous, but he is only here for the next ten minutes. I guess we will do | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
this, congratulations. Did you enjoy it? I was quite relaxed and happy. | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
Can I do at a game in next year? Maybe I have been premature. It is | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
time to bring down the curtain. You're interviewed by Thomas, he | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
tried to retire Gary Hamilton. It has come full circle, this man | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
played in the first one you did. It is amazing that the first commentary | :46:30. | :46:36. | |
I did for the BBC was in 1992 at the Oval, you will remember that, you | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
are playing Number 10. Sadly, you lost it and that day Glenavon won | :46:44. | :46:52. | |
2-1, Gerry McMahon and got one. It was his last game before he went to | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Spurs. He played for Northern Ireland as well. Here we are, when I | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
decide to retire it is Linfield against Glenavon and Glenavon win it | :47:03. | :47:09. | |
again by 2-0. A tremendous performance and you have to say, | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
Glenavon deserved it, I do not know what the boys were saying. That is | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
the way we saw it. Kevin Braniff, Majestic finish. It was not an easy | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
ball. As we look at the celebration pictures,... Great ball from | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
Bradley, Brazilian like outside of the foot and it was not an easy ball | :47:36. | :47:42. | |
to finish. It was on the half volley and then to get that second goal, | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
two and a half or three minutes into the second half. A few goals to look | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
at, can you say something nice about this guy? Jackie and I go back a | :47:52. | :48:01. | |
long way, he is a Crusaders man. Jackie is the ultimate professional, | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
everything he has done, all through the years, things I have done with | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
him, he makes it easy and he is a pleasure to be around and the | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
company is great, he did a lot of dinners for us and a personal dinner | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
for me and I can only thank him. I think your magnificent. Chris? First | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
time I met Jackie was a long time ago on a trip to the US and he has | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
been very generous sense... His mobile is going off. Since I have | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
made the transition. If that is Windsor parlour. It is my agent! | :48:35. | :48:43. | |
Since then I have made the transition from player to occasional | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
pundit for BBC and you have been very generous in your advice and | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
help towards me and I think we will all miss you, I hope you're still | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
around Paris league football. Thank you. I will not miss him all! I | :48:59. | :49:05. | |
thought I would never see the day. Many highlights down through your | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
Cup Final commentaries, we will take a look at a few of them. A few of | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
your standout moments, here is the first one. Glentoran player down | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
endured, but play continues. Glen Little runs a part of the defence. | :49:21. | :49:28. | |
Still going. A goal! Sensational goal from Glen Little it is 1-0 to | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
Glentoran. And they go absolutely wild in the North stand. Talk us | :49:36. | :49:42. | |
through that one in ten seconds. That was 1996I do believe. Glen | :49:43. | :49:51. | |
Little, not a great game, but this finish let the matchup and it won | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
the cup for Glentoran. Glen Little, being bushmen who eventually played | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
in English football. I have to goals I remember from 29 cup finals, that | :50:01. | :50:06. | |
was one of them and the other one was scored by this man. Cute on | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
perfectly. This might be a better one. Let us Jack. He did well. | :50:13. | :50:19. | |
Morgan. A real chance. He has taken it. It is 1-1. Not a bad goal, Jack. | :50:20. | :50:31. | |
Superb finish. I was saying that Linfield were 1-0 down, and early | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
strike from Kyle Neill after about three minutes. What a great | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
professional he was, Tony Gorman. How about that for a Finnish? Get in | :50:43. | :50:50. | |
there, Morgan! Top drawer. Right off the sweet spot. Great strike, great | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
finish. Chris, we know what it was like to score, what was it like to | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
hear him commentate on it? In moments like that, they do not, long | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
often, but it is always nice to hear the commentary and how Jackie | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
described it. It was one of those ones in front of me and I just put | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
my head down and smashed it and luckily I went into the net. His | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
favourite goal of all time, here it is. Hamilton. There is a run from | :51:21. | :51:31. | |
McCann and he will get there. He arrives. 1-0! Great finish from the | :51:32. | :51:42. | |
big Scot. They are absolutely delirious. Glentoran are one up and | :51:43. | :51:51. | |
what a goal it was. That is your most enjoyable, wide? Because I set | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
it up. It was a great run from Tim McCann. You have told people that he | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
is there, if he can get it across, he will finish it. It came true. | :52:06. | :52:12. | |
What a finish. The lovely thing for him was that he had only been on the | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
pitch as a substitute for six minutes and then that cross. Tim | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
McCann, great move down the right. Great run, great cross and he buried | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
it. What you made of the occasion, the first Irish Cup final to be | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
played in this new resplendent stadium? I thought it was great | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
right from the off. When I came onto the pitch earlier to see what it was | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
like, with David Jeffrey, Michael commentator, we were talking to | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
people like David Healy, but then the noise when we came out to near | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
the commentary time, and the noise and the atmosphere... It is a lovely | :52:50. | :52:57. | |
moment and one I will allow you to commentate, the Glenavon guys hold | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
up a banner for Mark Farren. It was lovely, his widow was here, she led | :53:02. | :53:10. | |
out the side. What a lovely thought. A lovely gesture by Ruxton and Gary | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
Hamilton to do this for Mark. The applause was well after ten minutes | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
because that was the number of Jersey, that was nice as well -- | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
Glenavon. That is the humane side of football that is often not recorded | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
by the press and the media. Football does have a hard. There is his wife. | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
She came on the coach, she was made to feel part of it and that is only | :53:39. | :53:46. | |
right. Two years ago, led out Glenavon. He had been a great | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
player, but above all, I did not know him that well, he was a great | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
fellow, record goal-scorer, took over from Young Coyle at Derry City | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
where he was a great player for them. There is Hamilton, stealing | :54:01. | :54:08. | |
the manner. He stole the show. The names go on and on. You're making | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
the point to David Jeffrey that the old bookmakers had Linfield as | :54:15. | :54:17. | |
favourites. I could not believe it, I can believe that they were the | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
favourites because there was a lot of moment and they were in good | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
form, but they were 5-6 answer on but Glenavon were available at 3-1. | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
There would be a lot of neutrals on that. I am not a gambler, but I | :54:32. | :54:38. | |
think they would sack the people who put the odds together. That was a | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
big prize. I can only assume it is down to Linfield being better | :54:46. | :54:48. | |
supported and maybe they were looking at where most of the money | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
would go to. I did say that I fancied Glenavon from the start. | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
Today's game was a hard one to call but at 3-1, that was generous. David | :54:58. | :55:04. | |
said, I know nothing about odds, but this game has to be even is! | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
Glenavon, by the first 15 minutes, they kind of Boston. I thought, we | :55:12. | :55:18. | |
must think about the losers and how David Healy will be feeling. | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
Linfield desperate for a major trophy, for years tried, that is a | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
long time for Linfield and it did not work out for them and Glenavon | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
came here, I saw them in the semifinal, they came from a high and | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
three times against this man's side who I thought could have done a | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
league and cup double and Glenavon nature it did not happen. Linda will | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
be getting jealous. A pertinent point about David Healy and let us | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
look at the other way, the Blues without a league or a cup in four | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
years, are we nearing crisis time, has he turned a corner, how | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
important to all three of you that he brings fresh blood in in the | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
summer period? I think it came in at a time, wanting to get off to a good | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
start and David comes in, he has to feel his way into the club, get the | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
players, have a good look at the players, what is available. He made | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
a change early and that worked. They were nature meant a strong, | :56:26. | :56:28. | |
tremendous run and I do not think they are far away. They pushed us | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
really close, we probably edged it on the head-to-head games and that | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
helped us push on. David knows what he leaves, he has a football guy, he | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
has been everywhere, he is trawling the young players, he will be | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
looking into the market down South, who brought in Ross Gaynor, a big | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
success, he will have contacts, knows what he needs, Linfield are | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
expected to win major championships and major trophies. They will want | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
to do that as quickly as possible. Let us hope it happens. Let us pop | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
down to Thomas who has a couple of guys who I think he might have a | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
word or two to. They know Jackie Fullerton well. Gary Hamilton, what | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
Jackie Norman stands out for you? I would like to buy Ken for one famous | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
strip away with Northern Ireland when I think that was a drink ban on | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
the plane on the way over and Jackie was sitting beside me and he got me | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
a few fresh oranges but at the time he was slipping Volga into them. I | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
would like to thank you for that and pines for everything you have done | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
for me. He is a friend to the players and to the managers. He | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
loves the local game. Within being an ex-player... Did he actually play | :57:42. | :57:50. | |
football? So he says! He will be missed, he is a smashing character. | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
He did well with all the players come before we began touring in the | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
quarterfinal, he was in our dressing room and would not leave. I heard | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
one of the BBC reporters, said Jackie is well hung, and one of them | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
said, he should be. It is live, I will apologise for that. You give | :58:09. | :58:15. | |
away your medal, tell us why. I had the worst night of my life trying to | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
get to sleep, there had to be one person left-eyed and after talking | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
to staff, we decided on Fabio, I was taking his place. I could not think | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
about the game until after I spoke to him. He did not take it well, we | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
did not expect and two. I thought it was a nice gesture, the very least I | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
could do after leaving him out of the squad after such a good | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
performance in the semifinal, it has really hurt me, that is the hard | :58:43. | :58:45. | |
part of being a manager, especially when you play, it is difficult. He | :58:46. | :58:52. | |
was OK after the game I understand it. Hopefully that will make up and | :58:53. | :58:55. | |
he still has an Irish Cup medal. Thank you. On a personal level, | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
Jackie has been helpful to be from the moment I walked into the BBC, he | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
was that it is not television, it is show business and he has been so | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
helpful from a commentary perspective, if I had questions, he | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
was the first person I could speak to and to give you an idea of the | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
scale of him and some of the friendships he has made, years ago I | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
made a documentary in Manchester with Jonny Evans and the only reason | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
that happened was because Jackie spoke to Alex Ferguson. I spoke to | :59:24. | :59:30. | |
him in the BBC and that shows you, that is the scale of him, that is | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
the way he is thought of, not just within the local game but in the | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
world game, he can pick up the phone to the most successful manager, | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
thank you for all your help, it has been a privilege and we continue to | :59:42. | :59:45. | |
learn from you every day and there will only be one Jackie Fullerton. | :59:46. | :59:53. | |
High praise indeed. I couldn't argue with that. | :59:54. | :00:00. | |
You got the broad brush stroke there. Jack, I guess you are feeling | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
a bit embarrassed. Is there a wee trickle of a tear in the eye there? | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
No, I'm not embarrassed, they are speaking the truth! No, it's very | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
humbling. The FA announced I was doing my last final before the game | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
and there's a lot of people gave me a standing ovation. It's lovely and | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
obviously it's lovely for your ego but also humbling as well. It's | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
nice. Some people probably over the years couldn't stand the sight or | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
sound of me, but I think I've captured the hearts of maybe a | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
number of them over the years and that was a lovely reception today | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
and I'll remember that. The fact my son was on at half time as well | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
which I didn't know about, Darren, who writes for the Daily Mirror, I | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
thought that was a present you were going to give me. That was the phone | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
bleeping there, could someone ask Jackie please not to sings. We know | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
you are not going to sing. I was on that flight when you furnished Gary | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Hamilton with the orange juice. We won't say who the manager was, but | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
what we will say is, take a look at this. Jackie Fullerton's greatest | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
hits. This is Jackie at his beloved | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Ballymena before the hip replacement. He's not been retired | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
because of that, but that was him with a bit of help from his friends | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
making it into the commentary box. You put one block out of position. I | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
had the hip operation three months ago today really, well tomorrow. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
It's a great job, it really is. I could jump that fence now. Couldn't | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
do anything with your tongue. No. Jackie's trip through the years - | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
take a look! Oh... Not quite sure what was | :01:46. | :02:07. | |
happening there. On the road with Bernie Fisher. | :02:08. | :02:22. | |
Grey round hacing... Grey round. ... People say it's play acting. It's | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
show birz. Who was that young man? That was you. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
You are still doing what you love? Yes. I came in in 1973 straight from | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
winning the first title at Crusaders as a player and I went straight from | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
football pitch to a TV studio and if you'd said I'd still be doing it 43 | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
years later, I may have laughed at you. But I've enjoyed it, Mark. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
There's been downs, you know, taken off Newsnight and losing programmes, | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
but you get programmes back so it's a roller coaster and you learn to | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
ride with the punches. It's part of the business. You were just giving | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
someone else a chance! I'm honest, I was dumped. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Sorry. I want to bring things full circle to today and I want you to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
talk us through the two goals because, I guess, as they are | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
coming, you are thinking to yourself, this could be my moment. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
This is the first of them? This is good from Glenavon. Here's Bradley. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
He gets the cross in, what a good cross it is and what a finish that | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
could be from Braniff. He's got four in the semi-final and he's now got | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
the first goal in this final and how important that could be. And then | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
the second one, Braniff, as we see, brilliant again. This was game over | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Jackie? It was. Yes. And there's the ball in. Through the legs of Matthew | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
so you've got to feel sorry for the young defender in many ways. 2-0 | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
after the break. We have been working exceedingly hard, Thomas in | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
particular, he's now pitch side with arguably Northern Ireland's most | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
iconic footballer, possibly George Best best ahead of him, but in many | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
people's opinion, David Healy is still the man? An important day for | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
him? Yes, it was. He wanted to say a few words about Jackie Fullerton. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
First of all, hugely disappointing to lose the Cup Final but Jackie's | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
been commentating on so many of your magical moments as a player. What | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
can you say as him as a commentator and also a close friend? As you say, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
I would like to thank Jackie for his kind words throughout my career as a | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
player. Unfortunately, I would have loved to give him a little send-off | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
by us winning the trophy here. But he's a good friend, a close friend, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
an associate who I've built a trusting relationship with over the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
years. When he does put the mic down, I wish him the best. He's been | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
synonymous in your career, was it a friendship that struck up instantly? | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Over time. You have to build up a relationship with players, but with | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Jackie, for the length of time I've never him, he's been a good friend, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
I wish him well. Your thoughts on the game finally? Disappointed for | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
the fans today. Sometimes when you lose your game, I'm disappointed | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
with the players' performance as everything else, disappointed for | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the fans today as they turned out in huge numbers and late on in the | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
second half, I don't think we gave it the fight that I was hoping for | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
today. Not hoping, but expecting. We didn't have that. Thank you very | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
much. Easy to come out and speak to the press when you win but it's not | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
your day, so thank you very much. Mark, when you think of Jackie | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Fullerton, you think of him saying "Healy! ". He wants to be you, | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Jackie. It sure happened for him in his career, but not today? I thank | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
him for saying those nice words. The boys who've played in Cup Finals, | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
you can see the disappointment on his face there, it took a lot for | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
him to come out and do that and I'm very proud that he did it for me and | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
that's lovely because he is torn up, he's gutted, he's devastated at | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
losing a game. When they were favourites, they had the momentum, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
they had the form and they haven't really performed. I think it's fair | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
to say that. They haven't performed on the day and they've lost it. Can | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
you believe it? We have come to the end of our time and your time. We | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
thank you immensely for your contribution to the BBC. Jackie | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Fuller tonne, the one and only. Midweek for you, Tuesday evening, | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Europa League play-off Cliftonville against Glentoran live online. And | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
BBC Ulster medium wave. Back next Sunday at 7. Also live on the radio, | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
as the Ulster Championship gets under way, Fermanagh of course | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
taking on Antrim in the preliminary round. It will be all for you here | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
on the BBC. Well, that is just about it from BBC NI sport congratulations | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
to the Northern Irish cup winners for a seventh time from Chris, | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Stephen and Jackie and from me, thanks for your company, bye-bye. | :07:24. | :07:24. | |
Enjoy your summer. | :07:25. | :07:26. |