Ayr United’s new faces this summer, grew up focusing on little else than beating his local rivals.As a youth prospect with the Magpies, he even got to pull on the black and white against the Mackems.“Even at Under-16s it’s a game that means so much,” he told the Ayrshire Post.“I grew up with all of my family supporting Newcastle, so I was never going to have a choice in the matter.“And the derby is the be all and end all.“To a lot of fans on both sides, all that matters is winning that fixture.”Sunderland’s slide down the English pryamid in recent years has robbed supporters of regular clashes.But it remains one of English football’s hottest rivalries.And as Ayr and Killie prepare to lock horns on league duty for the first time in 28 years,.
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