Demi Vance: Anything less than title glory for Glentoran Women would have been a failure

Demi Vance is hailed after scoring in Glentoran's title-clinching victory over Crusaders Strikers

When you’re a serial winner with experience of League title success in two different countries, second best won’t do.

Eighteen months after helping Rangers Women lift the SWPL title and via a short spell at Leicester City, Demi Vance is back collecting silverware with Glentoran Women.

Such are her individual standards and that of the team, winning on its own isn’t enough. After Vance’s two goals helped Glentoran to a 3-0 won over Crusaders Strikers that secured the Sports Direct Women’s Premiership crown they still have two more big aims, to secure invincibility and then go on to win a double.

That means getting one more win when they complete the League season at home to Linfield Women on Friday night to ensure that they finish the campaign with an unbeaten record.

“We didn’t play as well as we’d hoped in the first half, but I think in the second half we proved why we should be champions,” said Vance, whose two goals came either side of Emily Wilson netting against her former club.

“I came back after being at Leicester and I don’t think I would have settled for anything less than winning the League — and we still have the Irish Cup Final to look forward to.

“I’ve been at Glentoran since I was 16 and I don’t know any other way than winning, so it is great to come home and win the League again.”

Vance left the Glens for full-time football at Rangers at the end of the 2019 season and therefore wasn’t part of the club’s back-to-back title successes in 2020 and 2021.

The fact that she went on to bigger and better things for a spell is a sign of how much a big-game player Vance is and she could have had a hat-trick, or more, in