Post by caspday on Sept 17, 2012 7:13:10 GMT
There are smiles on the faces of people zyhaa917 Giants Jerseysaround east-Belfast again.Their football team is winning again, they sit second in the Danske Bank Premiership and the doom and gloom that surrounded Glentoran throughout last season is starting to lift.And the man with the biggest smile is Glens striker Andy Waterworth.He has every reason to be happy too.The 26-year-old has scored half a dozen times this season, with his goals coming in five of Glentoran’s six games. His double at Dungannon Swifts last Saturday shot Eddie Patterson’s men into second place behind Coleraine.
And that has set up a massive battle atOfficial Giants Jerseys the Oval this afternoon, when the top two go head-to-head.Victory would put the Glens on top and that’s a feeling that they haven’t been able to enjoy for a while.In fact, there hasn’t been much enjoyment for fans in green, red and black for a while.Eighteen months ago only the intervention of a secret millionaire saved Glentoran from being put out of business by the taxman.claiming he would consider every aspect of the match - including the handshake - before finalising his team.He said: "I always consider everything.
Earlier this year an Irish Cup defeat at theEli Manning Jerseys hands of Amateur League side Newington brought the club to its lowest ebb on the field and Scott Young quit as manager immediately afterwards.There have been pay cuts, unpaid wages and signing embargoes along the way too.Footballers are only human. No matter how much the Glentoran players tried to blank out all the mess that has been created off the pitch performances on the pitch were affected.It seems certain Terry will start but Di Matteo refused to confirm that.
The Glens finished sixth in the Premiership last season Victor Cruz Jerseys their lowest league position in 18 years — a massive 28 points behind champions Linfield, just three years on from winning the title themselves.“Being a Glentoran player has been tough over the last couple of years, but it hasn’t all been our fault,” said Waterworth.“There was so much going on off the pitch and eventually that starts to make it’s way into the dressing room and starts to have an impact on the players — you can’t help that.
This season the manager and the coaching Hakeem Nicks Jerseysstaff have told us to blank all that out and they have managed to keep us sheltered from it and kept us focused on football again.“I think now things have gone the other way.“The good things that are happening on the pitch has created a feelgood factor which is lifting the mood off it.“I played in the Glentoran team that won the league three years ago, but the last couple of months have been the best time I have had at the club. The internal and external environments, and also the fitness of the team and what's the best team to play against QPR."