Originally scheduled for yesterday (Saturday 6th) the game was put back 24 hours after the east Belfast surface was deemed unplayable following the heavy weekend rain.

And the match winner - and indeed only goal - was truly fitting of such a momentous occasion.

Gary Hamilton - who else? - secured the points for the Glens when he ran onto an inch perfect Sean Ward ball, controlled it with his chest and calmly lifted the ball over the head of Bangor's teenager 'keeper Andrew Plummer.

But Plummer had denied the Glens just four minutes earlier when he threw himself across the face of goal to keep out a well struck Daryl Fordyce spot-kick awarded after Andrew Waterworth had been upended by Bangor defender Mark Gracey.

Up until that point chances had been at a premium with perhaps the best effort coming on the stroke of half-time when Darren Boyce directed the ball just wide of an open goal from close range after Kyle Neill had flicked on a Dean Fitzgerald cross.

Bangor might have levelled 20 minutes from time through a 15-yard Marty Verner drive which Elliott Morris did well to block while David Irvine and Noel Anderson came close later in the game.