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Newington Scrape Home to Preserve Promotion Hopes

There could still be two senior sides playing their football out of Solitude next season.

Newington Youth kept their dream of Championship football alive last night in north Belfast’s driving rain, thanks to Gary Warwick’s emphatically converted spot-kick.

The ‘ton couldn’t have left it any later, Mr Gillespie the referee blowing for full-time almost upon the ball being re-centred. The man in yellow enjoyed a good game and seemed to call the big decision at the end correctly too after a volleyed cross from the left appeared to strike an outstretched hand.

It was still tough on a Portstewart side with little to play for but which put up stout resistance throughout the game, saying much about the integrity of the division.