Image: NIFL Premiership
Tuesday night saw Ballymena United take on rivals Coleraine in an eventful derby clash over in the Northern Ireland Premiership.
As always, it fell to the official Ballymena United Twitter account to keep their fans abreast of the action in live-text form.
After a minute’s silence was observed for Derry City captain Ryan McBride, the match got off to a fairly standard start…
And we’re underway here with United attacking the town end of the ground.
— Ballymena United FC (@BallymenaUnited) March 21, 2017
Sadly, it didn’t take long before the home side fell behind…
’26 – PENALTY Coleraine.
— Ballymena United FC (@BallymenaUnited) March 21, 2017
’27 – Bradley scores the rebound. 1-0 Coleraine.
— Ballymena United FC (@BallymenaUnited) March 21, 2017
A smattering of fouls and shots were then exchanged by both teams, a freekick hit the woodwork but nothing of note transpired until Ballymena managed to claw themselves a goal back in the 78th-minute…
Gooooallllll
— Ballymena United FC (@BallymenaUnited) March 21, 2017
79′ – McMurray heads in a corner. 1-1!!!!
— Ballymena United FC (@BallymenaUnited) March 21, 2017
However, it was in the direct wake of Johnny McMurray’s equaliser that things began to get really interesting, when Ballymena’s Twitter bod was forced to type out perhaps the finest live text update every published…
RED CARD – the ballboy has been sent off from the pitch for celebrating too hard in front of Winkie Murphy 😂😂😂
— Ballymena United FC (@BallymenaUnited) March 21, 2017
Amazingly, the aftermath of the incident was captured by an amateur photographer on stand-by in the terraces…
Proof that the ballboy at Ballymena was sent off last night for excessively celebrating in front of Coleraine bench. Outstanding. pic.twitter.com/5rM6tUus2H
— Smitty (@Desmond_Funk) March 22, 2017
Magical scenes.