Context: Glenn 'Spike' Ferguson (born 10 July 1969) is a Northern Irish former football player and current manager. He is currently out of work following being sacked at Ballymena United on 29 February 2016., Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal., The Ulster Cup was an annual football competition held by the Irish Football League for senior clubs. It was held on fifty-one occasions until being suspended after the 1998/99 season and discontinued after a one-off re-appearance in 2002/03. The last three editions were only open to First Division sides. From the mid-1980s to the early-1990s the competition was known as the Lombard Ulster Cup due to a sponsorship deal with the Lombard & Ulster Bank. It had previously been sponsored by Morans., The Ulster Footballer of the Year is the older of two association football player of the year awards in Northern Ireland. (The other is the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association award.) It is awarded by Castlereagh Glentoran Supporters' Club to the player who is adjudged by an independent committee to have been the best of the season in the IFA Premiership. The award has been presented since the 1950-51 season, when the inaugural winner was Kevin McGarry of Cliftonville. The current holder of the award is Billy Joe Burns, of Crusaders. Glenn Ferguson has won the award most often: on three separate occasions., Northern Ireland (; Ulster Scots: "") is a top-level constituent unit of the United Kingdom in the northeast of Ireland. It is variously described as a country, province, region, or "part" of the United Kingdom, amongst other terms. Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments"., Billy Neill was a footballer who played in the Irish League with Glentoran from 1950 - 1963 . With the Glens , he won the Irish League championship in 1952/53 , the Gold Cup twice , the City Cup and the Ulster Cup once each . He was capped fourteen times by the Irish League between 1952 and 1959 . He was the Ulster Footballer of the Year for the 1959/60 season . The Billy Neill MBE Soccer School of Excellence in Dundonald , County Down is named after Neill ., Subject: billy neill, Relation: occupation, Options: (A) association football (B) association football player (C) bank (D) manager (E) united kingdom
Output: association football player