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Dedicated to remembering the history of Ballyclare Comrades Football Club. Formed in 1919 by local men who had returned home from the First World War.

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Match reports from our two pre-season friendlies we had against senior opposition as our club was preparing for the 1988/89 season. We lost 3-1 away at Glentoran, who had won the league and cup double the season before and drew 0-0 at home to Cliftonville
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Piece in a local newspaper from.16th August 1988 about our manager Laurence Walker signing Jim Smyth from Glentoran and Buster Andrews and Gerry Tabb from Distillery
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Piece in a local newspaper from.18th August 1988, 2 days before the new season started, looking forward to our home game with Ballymena United in the Ulster Cup
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Piece in a local newspaper from.11th August 1988 about us surprisingly signing Billy Murray from Linfield, where he spent the last 11 seasons
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Gaye Dadur, seen pictured on the left, came to Northern Ireland as an interpreter for Linfield's recent signings Abdeli Khammal and Antoine Coly, both pictured on the right
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Piece in a local newspaper from.11th August 1988 as our club prepared for the 1988/89 season . It included our 2-2 friendly draw with POSC at Dunmurry, with two new players, Marty Clarke and Gaye Dadur scoring our goals
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Piece in a local newspaper from.11th August 1988 as our club prepared for the 1988/89 season . It included our 2-2 friendly draw with POSC at Dunmurry, with two new players, Marty Clarke and Gaye Dadur scoring our goals
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Piece in a local newspaper from.12th August 1988 about our proposed signing of Billy Murray, who spent the last 11 seasons at Linfield
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Piece in a local newspaper from.4th August 1988, as our club was preparing for the 1988/89 season, with Laurence Walker managing to secure the signatures of most of last season's squad
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Local newspaper match report from our 3-0 defeat away at Rockview in the Alliance League Second Division on 30th April 1921 as well as the latest table
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Piece in a local newspaper from.4th August 1988 about our manager Laurence Walker appointing Davy Lawther as team coach . Davy was brought in as assistant to .player-manager Denis McKenzie and helped us gain 21 points from a possible 22, when we won the B Division in 1979/80
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Piece in a local newspaper from.22nd March 1921 of an Alliance League Second Division meeting and fixtures arranged for the upcoming weeks, which seen us playing at home to Parkside on 26th March, away to Duncairn Old Boys on 2nd April and away to Owen O'Cork on the 9th April
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Piece in a local newspaper from.3rd August 1988 about us playing in a benefit match against an Athletico Steadfast XI in Ballymena, for their player, 19 year old Stephen Neeson, who broke his leg playing for them in a Law Trophy semi-final
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Local newspaper match report from our 3-1 defeat away at Crumlin Road Young Men in the Lyttle Trophy on Saturday 5th March 1921
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Piece in a local newspaper from.4th August 1988 about our preparations for the 1988/89 season. This included us arranging a friendly with Irish League champions Glentoran after our proposed trip to League of Ireland champions Dundalk was cancelled
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Local newspaper match report from our 1-0 defeat to Owen O'Cork at Messines Park in the Alliance League Second Division on Saturday 26th February 1921
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Local newspaper match report from our 2-1 defeat away at Ramblers in the Alliance League Second Division on 19th February 1921 . Gibson had given us a 1-0 half-time lead in this game
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A local newspaper match report from our 2-1 defeat at home to Jennymount in the Alliance League Second Division on Saturday 12th February 1921. Finlay had given us the lead in this game, watched by almost 1,000 spectators
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Piece in a local newspaper from 26th February 1921 about Somerset Regiment failing to fulfil their recent Alliance League Second Division fixture with us at Hollywood and their dismissal from this competition owing to them not fulfilling fixtures and lack of communication
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Piece in a local newspaper about our Alliance League Second Division game away at Somersets on Saturday 29th January 1921 being called off after we arrived in Hollywood to find a rugby team occupying the ground
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A week earlier, we had triumphed over the same opponents at the same venue in the 5th round of the Irish Cup, coming back from 1-0 down to win 2-1 . Eddie Hill scored our first half equaliser and Gary Bell scored our late winner
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Local newspaper match report from this game
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