Former Newcastle, Liverpool and England star Peter Beardsley was the guest of honour and he officially opened the tournament emphasising the need for the players to, above all else, enjoy the matches.

    The two Fermanagh teams proudly walked into the Coleraine Showgrounds shoulder to shoulder with some of the best young football talent in the world and when the football action got underway the Fermanagh teams have, thus far, performed excellently. Indeed, this has been one of the best Milk Cups for several years for Fermanagh teams with the U14 team beating County Antrim yesterday, Wednesday, to qualify for the semi finals of the Northern Bank Trophy and in so doing become the top ranked Northern Ireland County team in the tournament. Fermanagh will now play Premiership side Middlesboro today (Thursday) at 3.30pm at Roe Mill, Limavady on pitch number one. A large support is expected to travel from Fermanagh to the game.

    Yesterday afternoon the U16 team took on the might of Galatasary from Turkey in the quarter finals but could not match the performance of the previous night (when they held Grasshoppers of Zurich to a 1-1 draw) as they lost 3-0 to the Turkish full-timers. The U16s will now play at Anderson Park, Coleraine today with a 12 o’clock kick off although their opponents had not been finalised on going to press.