He may have featured for an unfashionable Cliftonville team during the 1960s, but John Peacock still managed to rub shoulders with two of Northern Ireland’s greatest football exports — the legendary Pat Jennings and the incomparable George Best.

Neither of them ever pulled on the famous red shirt, but they formed part of a fascinating journey that Kilkeel man John embarked on — one that also took him to both sides of Belfast’s Big Two divide.

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