Legendary status

Tickets for these exclusive events are free but places are limited. You can register for the Carling Presents event at www.carlingpremiership.com/legends.

The first four of 12 ‘Carling Presents’ evenings have taken place at Glentoran, Lisburn Distillery, Glenavon and Cliftonville and local fans have embraced their heroes as they have been regaled with tales from the pitch and dressing room during an enjoyable Q&A session.

Cliftonville striker Chris Scannell was one of the current stars at the recent Carling Presents night at Solitude and he really enjoyed the response from the fans.

“We had so much fun and banter at Solitude and talked about everything from our best goals, most memorable moments on the pitch to our opinions on management. Our evening was rounded off with Cliftonville songs, photographs and plenty more off the record chat, washed down with a couple of pints of Carling!

Aisling Duffy, Carling Marketing Manager, is delighted with the success of the events.

“We created the Carling Presents evenings to help the fans get closer to legends and star players in the Carling Premiership and have had such a positive response so far with full capacity registered for each event. At the last event before Christmas we even had fans queuing up to get in!”

BBC Sport’s Jackie Fullerton, a football legend in his own right is host of the Carling Legends events and is encouraging fans to join him in cyber space, where he writes a blog for each event.

“We’ve had four fantastic events so far and all our legends, players and fans have contributed to a very successful first half of the Carling Presents events.”

Geoff Wilson, Head of Marketing and Communications at the Irish FA, is delighted with the success of the events. He said: “Both Carling and the IFA have worked tremendously hard to make these legends evenings happen, and we are continuing to get the fans closer to their heroes with the Carling Mega Match Days at each Premiership ground in the coming weeks.”