“Spirit of The Eighties” – Distillery v Portstewart

Our second matchday programme – “The Spirit of the Eighties” – for the 2025-2026 season will be available this Saturday ahead of our league game against Portstewart.

Programme editor David Hunter writes; “Whilst we have produced our second programme of the season earlier than planned we once again have a lot of content packed into our standard A5 8-page full-colour format.

Distillery manager Stephen Hughes shares his thoughts about the Knockbreda game and how he feels things have gone since the end of the pre-season campaign.

Guillaume Keke scored a hat-trick on his debut on the opening day of the season and club historian Dawson Simpson puts that into context in terms of our 145 year history.

We have another article in our “Retro” series, this time a pre-season game at Mullaghacall against Portstewart in 2001 and all our other regular news, snippets, matchday squads etc.

Neil Partridge will be selling the programmes just inside the turnstiles at New Grosvenor, as usual.

If you are a “Spirit of the Eighties” regular we are operating a “set-aside” scheme this season which simply means there will a programme set aside for you this season every time we produce one. In the event you can’t make a match or we have sold out by the time you arrive at the ground, it means you won’t miss out on your programme. If you want added to the scheme simply email me on ldnetweb@hotmail.co.uk and your programmes will be guaranteed for your over the season ahead – you simply collect them from Neil as usual on matchday or from me at the following games (s) if you can’t make the relevant match.

Thanks again to everyone who supports the club when they buy a programme, and at this stage our third programme of the season is planned for the visit of Coagh United on 20th September.”