Alex Mills

Linfield boss David Healy has outlined Joel Cooper’s importance to Linfield by expressing how the 28-year-old is one of the few players in Irish League football that has the knack of getting of getting fans off their seats.

Having rubbed shoulders with some football greats, it’s perhaps surprising Ryan Harpur’s most memorable moment arrived in the unfashionable blue shirt of little Dungannon Swifts on a grey February afternoon at Windsor Park.

Larne defender Tomas Cosgrove believes his winning goal in Thursday night’s UEFA Conference League victory over Gent at Windsor Park was ‘written in the stars’.

Who needs Joel Cooper? The 28-year-old wing star has been in the headlines after the Belfast Telegraph exclusively revealed he had agreed a big-money pre-contract with Coleraine, but it was business as usual without him for David Healy’s Linfield at Windsor Park on Saturday.

Linfield manager David Healy has told Sunday Life Sport Coleraine must fork out a cool £1million if they want to take Joel Cooper to The Showgrounds in the January transfer window.

Raymond Morrison declares that the form book means nothing when Belfast’s Big Two meet at any time — never mind Boxing Day.

Chris Gallagher insists Larne’s UEFA Conference League win over Belgian side Gent at Windsor Park on Thursday night must be the spark that lights the touchpaper to get their title defence back on track.

Cliftonville hero Barry Johnston has every reason to remember his final Boxing Day derby clash against Crusaders a decade ago — he ended up with a broken kneecap.

Ex-Crusaders star Kirk Hunter believes the Boxing Day clash with north Belfast rivals Cliftonville was aptly named.

R obbie McDaid admits his inside was churning with nerves when he returned from injury for the first time in almost two years in Linfield’s hard-fought win over Glenavon at Windsor Park on Saturday.