10.15am 2 March 2024 Ballymena Saturday Morning League, Division Two Cullybackey Blues 2 Randalstown 4 (att 18) Another early morning flight into Belfast International Airport, from where it's a fairly easy task, in a hire car, to reach a game in the Ballymena Saturday Morning League. Ahead of this I had four venues left to visit in the three division league. Despite a reduced fixture list there were games on all of them. The other three are all multi-pitch venues in Ballymena itself, each used by more than one club. But Cullybackey Blues are one of the league's village teams, and with a home ground of their own. Tobar Park is an enclosed pitch behind a community centre building that contains the changing rooms. The playing area is enclosed by a post and rail barrier and there's a pair of dugouts. There are even floodlights although, assuming they work, they'd only be suitable for training. Cullybackey made the brighter start and it didn't take them long to score t...
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