Friday Sport Preview (13-2-26)

February 13, 2026·50 min·4 clips

After poor weather decimated Manx football last weekend, will the ECAP FA Cup first round and league fixtures go ahead this Saturday?

The football list is already backed up. Poor weather wiped out much of the previous weekend's schedule, so the preview keeps coming back to the ECAP FA Cup first round, the league ties, and the plain problem of getting games played. Even the cup draw has strings attached. Tony says three games are already off, Union Mills and Castletown still need watching, and one more postponement could stop the draw because the either-or entries get too tangled. That feels like local sport in miniature. The question is not just who wins tomorrow. It is whether the FA can keep cup football moving while the weather keeps crowding the calendar. Cycling then turns more serious. Manx Viking Wheelers warns that senior mountain bike, cross country, and gravel cycling may not be administered by the club this year unless more people help. Niall Quiggan explains what went wrong. The Manx Mountain Bike and Gravel Association merged with Manx Viking last year, with events expected to carry on and the club handling the admin behind them. That plan has not really held. The appeal sounds less like panic than a blunt request for volunteers and views before a crucial meeting next week. Rugby gets its slot too. Ramsey are due back in Counties 3 ADM Lancashire and Cheshire action, while two old rivals are lined up for the Hertford Homes Manx Cup. Hockey adds another busy Saturday, with Isle of Man fixtures on and off island through the day. The weather still has the last word. A yellow warning for frost and ice closes the programme, with damp or wet untreated surfaces expected to turn hazardous overnight and into Saturday morning. It is a proper local bulletin: ground conditions, postponed ties, volunteer gaps, club fixtures, and enough caveats to keep the weekend honest.

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A Manx sport preview built around weather-hit football, a volunteer warning from cycling, and the weekend's rugby and hockey fixtures.

Friday Sport Preview looks ahead to a packed weekend on Manx Radio, with football already shaped by the after effects of poor weather and the chance of more fixture disruption.

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