Jim Ervin fires out warning message to his Ballymena United stars ahead of trip to wounded Linfield

Manager Jim Ervin has warned Ballymena United can’t drop their guard against Linfield

Ballymena United boss Jim Ervin knows his team will enter the lion’s den when they face Linfield at Windsor Park on Saturday afternoon.

Not only have David Healy’s boys produced their worst two performances of the 2025/26 season, which ended in drubbings away to Portadown and Cliftonville over the past eight days, but the club then faced an outburst from former player Kyle Lafferty, who claimed “it was the worst-run club I’ve ever been at”.