Bogside football club Derry City worry about life after Brexit

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland: As politicians from Britain and the European Union wrangled over the fate of the Irish border and post-Brexit customs arrangements, the fans of a League of Ireland football club are unlikely to have been uppermost in their thoughts.

The location of the club’s Brandywell stadium explains much of its history. The ground is nestled in the Bogside district, just a few minutes walk from the emblematic Irish Republican mural that declares"You are now entering Free Derry". That in itself was a relatively minor incident at a time when the barricades were in place in the nationalist area of the city, where people supported a united Ireland, and clashes with the police and the British army were a regular occurrence.

But the determination of a group of four former players, including O’Doherty, who worked to get the club into the Republic’s League of Ireland in 1985, ensured that the club re-emerged and that Liam Coyle would have a chance to emulate his father’s achievements. The club and its supporters have been crossing the border for games ever since and the peace process has even meant that another club, Institute FC, from the majority pro-British unionist Drumahoe district of the city, have ground-shared at the Brandywell after their own ground was ruined by floods.The team’s manager Declan Devine is sure that, whatever the outcome, the club will find a way to continue through it.

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