Glentoran - The East Side Story

Glentoran Football Club, a side forged from shipyard steel in the shadow of Belfast’s Titanic gantries, have been at the fair for a long time.

This is a club roared on to victory by a teenage George Best, imbibed in the glory of Van Morrison, poet, and mystic of the east, born within the roar of the stadium. A fuel which drove the club to engage with the royalty of European football, Juventus, Benfica, Monchengladbach, devoid of fear in halcyon days, and emerged anointed in adulation. An accelerant that propelled a team of part time players across the United States in the summer of 1967, as they helped pioneer Association Football from the East Coast to the West, safe in the knowledge they’d all “be back in work in the paint shops and work floors of the shipyard on Monday morning.”

The East Side Story, touches on every nerve and fibre of a once great football institution as it attempts to navigate the long road to Eden and brighter days further down the slipways.