Michael Smyth reckons he is the Irish Cup captain that time forgot.
Thirty three years and a lifetime of football memories have passed since Smyth skippered Ballymena United to their last blue riband success at a sun-kissed Oval in 1989.
Paul Hardy’s backheel in front of a sea of Sky Blue, ebbing and flowing its way across the Sydenham End embankment, lives on in the memories of those who were there.
