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- ↑ Marshall Gillespie, The Northern Ireland Football Yearbook 1996/97, UTV Books, 1996, p. 101
- ↑ We're going UP for UNDER pounds 20,000 Says TREVOR ANDERSON
- ↑ Ards FC History Part Three Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine