of Doctor Who actor David Tennant, was a Derry City player. Derry had supplied a lucrative signing-on fee and had enticed him over from Scotland. Likewise, features about the club were run by Football Focus prior to and after the same UEFA Cup game. Irish television has also featured the club. Derry City played in the first League of Ireland match ever to be shown live on television when it visited Tolka Park to play Shelbourne during the 1996–97 season. The game was broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2 and finished 1–1 with Gary Beckett scoring for Derry. Another medium to play host to the club has been the radio. On 20 April 2005, Derry City featured in an audio documentary The Blues and the Candy Stripes on RTÉ Radio 1's Documentary on One. The documentary was produced in the aftermath of the historic friendly game between Derry and Linfield that took place on 22 February 2005 – the first between the two teams to occur since a game on 25 January 1969 during which Linfield's fans had to be evacuated from the Brandywell by police at half-time due to civil unrest and ugly scenes within the ground. The 2005 match was organised as a kind of security test in the run-up to the likely possibility that both teams, with socially polar fan-bases, qualified for and be drawn against one another in a Setanta Cup competition. Notes References Cunningham, Vinny (2007) Derry City FC: A European Odyssey Derry City Development Committee (DVD) Ferry, Gary (2008) The Team I Loved So Well – City Print Ferry, Gary (2015) 30 Years – The Journey So Far – City Print External links Association football clubs established in 1928 Association football clubs in Derry Urban Area Association football clubs in Northern Ireland Expatriated football clubs Former senior Irish Football League clubs Former League of Ireland First Division clubs League of Ireland Premier Division clubs 1928 establishments in Northern Ireland