“Belfast would have been probably the industrial capital at that particular time, and so you would have had a significant Unionist and Loyalist participation in soccer and in the IFA, so in many ways, the divide almost predated independence, or it became a natural occurrence with the Football Association of Ireland being established,” he said.
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