Summary

  • Cliftonville beat Glentoran 3-2

  • Rory Donnelly (2) and Joe Gormley for Cliftonville

  • Robbie McDaid & Curtis Allen net for Glens

  • Europa place worth around £200,000

  1. More drama - disallowed goalpublished at 15:49 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 1-0 Glentoran

    Another talking point. Gormley has the ball in the back of the net, the linesman does not put his flag up but the referee whistles and the goal is disallowed.

    The ball fell into Gormley's path when Jay Donnelly's strike was deflected. It hit off a Glens players which meant Gormley would have been onside, perhaps the ref thought it came off a Cliftonville player last.

  2. The big talking pointpublished at 15:44 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 1-0 Glentoran

    Here is the goal which put Cliftonville into the lead against Glentoran.

    What is your hand ball verdict - should it have been allowed to stand?

    Media caption,

    Rory Donnelly fires Cliftonville into the lead at Soltitude

  3. Deliberate or not?published at 15:39 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 1-0 Glentoran

    For clarity, the handball rule is that it is only an offence if the player deliberately moves their hand towards the ball. We'll have the video of the goal up here for you very soon and you can make your own mind up, but it did bounce up very quickly so Donnelly may not have known an awful lot about it.

  4. Unsavoury scenespublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 1-0 Glentoran

    There's a yellow card in the aftermath for Willie Garrett as protestations continue. An object, looks like a bottle, is thrown from the crowd and hits the top of Conor McDonald's head, thankfully not making a full-on connection. Ridiculous behaviour by someone in the stands.

    As play gets back underway it's clear that both teams have been fired up by that goal.

  5. goal

    GOALpublished at 15:29 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 1-0 Glentoran

    Rory Donnelly opens the scoring but Glentoran players are furious. The ball bounces up off the artificial pitch in the box and seems to hit Donnelly's hand - there is a moment of hesitation from every player other than Donnelly who fires it hard, low and through Elliot Morris. The Glens are seething and they have a case, but Cliftonville won't care, they lead.

  6. Golden chance for Allenpublished at 15:21 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 0-0 Glentoran

    Curtis Allen has scored many goals this year that were much more difficult than this chance. Garry Breen completely mishits an attempted back-pass and it drops straight into the path of Allen who only has Brian Neeson between him and the goal, but he completely scuffs his effort and it rolls tamely into Neeson's arms.

    At the other end Gormley gets to the ball first at the near post but blazes it over the bar.

  7. Reds front line looking livelypublished at 15:15 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 0-0 Glentoran

    Unsurprisingly Joe Gormley and the Donnelly brothers look like they could cause a few problems today. Gormley skies a shot over the bar having momentarily found himself in behind the Glens defence on the left of the box.

    Still awaiting our first real chance but it's a lively opening.

  8. Early stoppagepublished at 15:07 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 0-0 Glentoran

    Nasty fall straight from kick-off as Rory Donnelly goes up for a header and lands right on the base of his neck. He looks in real pain but after several minutes of treatment he is thankfully able to walk off the pitch and looks ok to continue.

  9. And we're offpublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville 0-0 Glentoran

    The teams are out at a sun-soaked Solitude and the fans are in fine voice as we get underway for the season's final 90 minutes.

  10. Team newspublished at 14:59 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville v Glentoran

    Gary Breen replaces Shane Grimes in Cliftonville's only change from their midweek side. The Glens make two changes as Steven Gordon and Peter McMahon drop out for Dylan Davidson and Nathan Kerr.

  11. High stakes on the season's final daypublished at 14:50 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cliftonville v Glentoran

    The final loose end in what has been a truly remarkable Irish Premiership season is about to be tied up as Cliftonville host Glentoran with a Europa League qualifying spot up for grabs.

    The Reds quickly forgot about their Irish Cup final disappointment as they put Ballymena to the sword with an impressive 4-0 win in the play-off semi-final.

    It was a rather less straightforward evening for the Glens as they fought back from two down against rivals Linfield to claim a famous 4-3 win at Windsor Park.

    A berth in the 19 June draw for the first qualifying round is worth an estimated £200,000 - so the stakes are high for this one.

    Two years ago they met in the Europa League play-off final and Cliftonville triumphed on that day. This season deserves to go out in style, let's hope for one more classic encounter today.