Glen Warning!

If you are at a loose end tomorrow night and want something to entertain you, Ballymena Showgrounds is the place for you. If you suffer from stress or any related symptoms including angina better bring your inhalers and/or spray with you. United and the unbeaten Glens go into battle for 3 league points and it'll not be a place for the faint-hearted. If you crave blood and guts being on the line, this is the place for you. Referee Hetherington will certainly have his work cut out for him while the two sides struggle for supremacy and the two crafty managers try to gain the upper hand. Glens manager Eddie Patterson, who was interviewed for the United job, is starting to make his presence felt at the Oval, despite the financial restraints he has inflicted on him.

The same could be said for own boss, Glenn 'Spike' Ferguson, he got off to a flyer with a 17 game unbeaten run, although we have stuttered in recent weeks culminating in a bad loss to the Coleraine scum last Saturday. Spike has decided to give youth a chance and he had four teenagers in his panel and subsequently on the pitch on Tuesday night where they dumped County Antrim Shield holders Chickenville out of this years competition. It has to said maybe Chickenville and their manager Tommy Breslin underestimating the hunger in the Sky Blues camp, for they were a lot of unknown names in their line-up, but if United had converted half of their gilt edged chances the Reds would have been on the end of an embarrassing scoreline.

We expect the Glens to be at full strength tomorrow night and while United have triumphed pretty regularly at the Oval in the past few seasons, they have struggled at home against the men from the East. That said we're so far unbeaten at home this season and we won't want to surrender that proud record without a fight. So it promises to be a real ding dong battle with no quarter asked or given, but sporting and it deserves to be watched by a good crowd, but the fickle fans of both clubs might find it hard to drag themselves away from other pursuits. The stage is set for a good contest, hopefully controversies will be few and far between, so come on United, let's shag those townies from Ballymacarat!