{"id":2061,"date":"2025-12-09T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:10:41","slug":"crusaders-v-cliftonville-storm-bram-forces-north-belfast-derby-to-be-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2061","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders v Cliftonville: Storm Bram forces north Belfast derby to be postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tuesday&#8217;s north Belfast derby between Crusaders and Cliftonville at Seaview has been postponed due to Storm Bram.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An amber weather warning was put in place due to high winds in County Antrim from 14:00 GMT until 19:00 GMT &#8211; 45 minutes before the scheduled kick-off at Seaview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A yellow warning for wind remains in place for Belfast until 22:00 GMT on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Ireland Football League said the game was called off &#8220;due to the impact of Storm Bram, following agreement by both clubs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crusaders have struggled this season and sit 10th in the table with 11 defeats in 18 league matches, and manager Declan Caddell called Saturday&#8217;s 4-0 home defeat by Portadown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx253m5448mo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">an &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; and a &#8220;disgrace&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jim Magilton&#8217;s Reds, who threw away a two-goal lead in Saturday&#8217;s draw with Glentoran, are sixth &#8211; eight points ahead of their rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuesday&#8217;s game was set to be the first north Belfast derby in the Irish Premiership this season but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2x29171pzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Cliftonville beat Crusaders 2-0<\/a> in the County Antrim Shield in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyvwenpzryo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s north Belfast &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}