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Ballyclare Comrades Football Club Founded: 1919 Stadium: Dixon Park, Ballyclare Capacity: 5,333 (Safe: 1,800) Rivals: Larne, Carrick Rangers Beginnings In the grand scheme of all things football in Northern Ireland, the story barely caused a ripple amongst the Carling Premiership-centred...

It started with a horse. SKA Runner, 15.10 at Newmarket. “Yea, 15 big ones Yuri”, I said nervously to my back-street bookmaker. Yuri was a hardened survivor of Communist Russia, a man whose reliance on chain-smoking, narcotics and alcohol had aged him considerably beyond his 42 years. “You...