Photographer Joe Burns and graphic artist Beth Stafford pay their own tribute to Elliott Morris on the cover of Saturday’s Glentoran Gazette as the ‘keeper calls time on his playing career, while Matthew Brown catches up with another former star, boyhood Glens fan Darren Lockhart, who reveals how he angered David Jeffrey. We highlight the work at Crusaders of another Irish League managerial legend, Stephen Baxter, and focus on some of his star players ahead of a crucial fixture. In another 40-page issue programme publishers, the Glentoran Supporters' Committee (1923), come out in favour of the play-off system; Roy Downes unearths historic photos of one of the Glens' greatest nights and Brian McClelland concludes the story of a Glentoran goal machine. Paul Vance reports on a couple of young Glens stars in international action in wintry Donegal while Henry Muldrew tries to provoke by taking sides on one of football’s big debates and William James raises the prospect of television banning green shirts. Our writers also assess the new online ticketing system and predict there won’t be a Euro 2028 game played in Northern Ireland. And, of course, Norman Ternahan and Thomas Sewell review the latest action in words and pictures.
