This week midweek football returns, as we rush home from work, rush our tea in us, then it's off out to the game we go, or in the away fans case, it's possibly no tea and a visit to an Irish league burger van instead. The midweek games breaks the week up, meeting your mates on a Tuesday night for a pre match pint and letting off some steam, compared to being stranded indoors confronted with mind-numbing soaps.
Luckily for us this week we have a home game in the Carling Premiership on Tuesday 9th November under the cracking Coleraine floodlights with a 7.45pm kick off against Glentoran FC, and if the result is pleasing it can make the rest of the week at work a lot better. If beat then you can expect your Wednesday to feel like a Monday again.
Up Next - The Glens had a cracking start to the season which saw them win six out of their first seven league games in a row. Darryl Fordyce was scoring for fun and it all seemed rosy for the Glens. Even better for the Glens was in a cold October Tuesday night going into the 90th minute of the game a young striker called Matty Burrows scored what was to prove to be the most talked about goal in the Irish league ever. I'm sure you have all seen it, read about it and were stunned by it. Why not take another look on the link below. The goal has over 1 million youtube hits, has been on Sky Sports and viewed all over the world - it's even up for a FIFA award. It's good publicity for our league. So well done Matty, although I hope you aren't planning on unleashing your back heel effort against us tomorrow night.
Coleraines last meeting with the East Belfast men came on a sunny day in August at The Oval, the home of Glentoran Football Club. Shorts and t-shirts weather it was indeed, however although the sun was shinning Coleraine certainly wasn't and we produced a stinking wet performance. Then Glens won the game that day 2-0, was hardly a tough game for them as we were poor and at the start of our horrid run, a run which seemed like a marathon by the time it ended and although the fans never took part in that marathon we were knackered watching it.Money Problems - Late October news broke about Glentorans financial situation, Revenue and Customs told the club it will start court proceedings in a bid to recover money it is owed, it was rumoured that they owe the taxman in excess of £250,000 and possibly more. We all know how if feels to be in that situation as we nearly lost our club, and are thankful to the Glens for helping us out at that time. Maybe our club can return the gesture and help the Glens at some stage.
Patterson
Last season Coleraine hammered the Glens SIX nil at the Oval in a game that will live in the memory of both Glentoran and Coleraine fans, Rory Patterson bagged FOUR goals with Carson and Boyce scoring the other two goals. Patterson certainly had caught the eye of the Glens because a couple of months later Patterson decided that he would join Glentoran at the end of the season, but we all know how that panned out and now Patterson is with English side Plymouth Argyle and not banging in hatricks or four goal performances, however thanks to Rory we also defeated the Glens in their last visit to the Showground's, a game in which Patterson scored a hatrick as we won 4-3.
Both teams go into this weekends game having defeated the two North Belfast sides 3-1 on Saturday. Coleraine defeated Cliftonville, thanks to two Leon Knight goals, and a superb Carson solo effort. Glentoran now 2nd in the table defeated Crusaders for the first time in the league at the oval since December 2007 with their goals coming from Burrows, Nixon and Steele. Both managers will have taken a lot of positives from their weekend wins and shall be looking to take three points on Tuesday night. 
Coleraine have yet to lose a game in which Leon Knight has played for the Stripes, he has scored five goals in his three games and three of his goals have been headers, considering the size of young Leon he can certainly get of the ground as he has proved. Leon has boosted the team as a whole and given other players a bit of confidence. Leon certainly likes to be in the mix and if he keeps scoring for Coleraine, hopefully we can push up the table and into the top six mix.
So come Tuesday night lads and lassies, giver up the soaps, get your coat on and come watch some real football, who knows you might see another Burrows wonder goal or Leon rising to find the net, I hope it's the latter and Coleraine collect another three points. So when the stripes go marching in, make sure your there.
C'mon the Bannsiders
Info
Opponents one to Watch - Matty Burrows
Glentoran Manager - Scott Young
Glentorans nickname - The Glens or The CocknHens
Coleraine have won four of their last five league games at home
Coleraine have not drawn a game in the league yet this season
Current Coleraine players Darren Boyce and David Scullion have both previously played for the Glens
This game is all ticket for Glentoran Supporters only - due to the Health & Safety Clowns currently ruining our game.
Coleraine midfielder Michael Hegarty
Coleraines inform player - Leon Knight
Admission £8
Tuesday, 9th November, 2010
Carling Premiership (kick-off 7:45pm)Cliftonville v. Glenavon
Coleraine v. Glentoran
Dungannon Swifts v. Crusaders
Linfield v. Donegal Celtic
Lisburn Distillery v. Ballymena United
Coleraine v. Glentoran
Dungannon Swifts v. Crusaders
Linfield v. Donegal Celtic
Lisburn Distillery v. Ballymena United
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