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Nice to see a bit of coverage of the Milk Cup on the BBC red button. Just caught highlights of our 4-3 victory against 'derry.

Won 5-0 today aswell against hapeol beer sheeba

Londonderry, has just won the right, to be called the next UK City of Culture, after the Scousers.

Not a lot of people know that.

Really? There's a couple of good pubs there, but can't think of much else to recommend it.

Something in the air ?

Well to be strictly accurate...the Scousers are European City of Culture.  This thing is the first UK effort, and kicks off in 2013....so they've got a bit of time, to find some culture.

 Can only be a matter of time before Swindon, achieves the accolade.

Thunderclap Newman...

I also watch the red button highlights.  We seem to have a discipline problem, they were all moaning at the ref.  Keeper did something stupid for one of the goals.

In other news Derry Londonderry did win the UK Capital of Culture, So good they named in twice presumably.

Its the reggae reggae sauce of towns.

One's the protestant naming of the city and the other catholic. You probably knew that anyway.

4:08am, and the milk cup highlights start at 4:10am.

Fucking love it, watched so much football tonight :o

get a job

Cracking Swindon third goal. The Londonderry keeper looked a bit dodgy though.

The new kit looked good on TV also.

Are highlights online anywhere?

Have a look on here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/milkcup/

It's about 7 mins in on the Tuesday goals.

Later on, see Man Yoo get knocked out of the group stages.

I didn't know Adi Vivash was a Chelsea coach.  Interview with him on the Monday goals bit!

We play the semi today at 1pm.

By the OS, it's on at 7pm tonight.

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/CentreOfExcellence/0,,10341~2104741,00.html

And we are using a mixture of under 14's, 15's and 16's. Great for the future.
It looks like they played in the new away kit as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/milkcup/index.shtml

we have cruz azul in the semis at 7pm, I used to live about 5 minutes walk from the cruz azul ground in mexico city and I also own a cruz azul shirt. That was interesting wasnt it.

actually the photo in my avatar is probably been taken from directly above cruz azul's stadium.

Any idea who is in the other semi?

chelsea v dundalk

So are any of them tipped for big things? Any more Henshall's in the pipeline?

Jake Simpson seemed to have a good game in the 4-3 win.

actually i think its chelsea v donegal 93

Not from that team but Miles Storie(sp) is very highly thought of.

Looking at the fixtures and results, we played Cruz Azul in the first game and drew 1-1.

Swindon Town's Centre of Excellence squad progressed to the semi-final of the 2010 Milk Cup after demolishing Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheba 5-0 in Coleraine.

Are you having flashbacks ?

Chelsea have won the other semi 4-0.

We lost 3-0.

We now play Dundalk in 3rd/4th play-off.

Yep! :D

Arribas out there isnt he?

Lost 3-1 to dundalk this morning.

one of the most nervous,emotional and proud weeks of my life.
it was fucking amazing.
the milk cup is ran brilliantly, and is a real big deal for the northern irish who embrace the tournament and work hard to make it what it is.
it was so much better than i ever imagined.and the lads were superb

Great stuff arriba, i have had over the years lots of dealings with football within the northern ireland youth groups and the organisation and passion is outstanding.

I plan to come over for this one year.

Glad you enjoyed it Arriba. So why did you go out to see the cup then. I assume you new somebody playing in it?

Yeah, his son presumably Batch.

Oh, cool, thanks.

it really has to be seen to be believed.the whole thing just blew me away.
people come out in their thousands for the team parade,and games get large attendances.swindon town are very well regarded out there with the locals i can tell you.
all over it was just fantastic.i'm hoping for some more of it next year

D'you have to pay to watch the games, or just the obvious flights/hotel fees?

some games you have to pay, but others are free.
you can get group tickets which save loads of money if you want to watch alot of matches.you need a car as games are spread around the area.
i watched about 3 games a day over there.1 of which being the swindon fixture.i was charged to enter one of the town games.

My son played in it last year,its a fantastic well run tournament, and gives the boys a taste of what its like being a pro footballer.For most of the boys this will be the closest they get to being a pro,and boy do they enjoy it. A few will make the youth team. The rest will be released, but the memories they will have will stay with them for a long time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8874005.stm

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