Topping tour-de-force seals it

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Ignore the 10-point margin in Saturday's AIL Division 1 decider, because it does no justice at all to what was in fact a thrilling, nail-biting, down-to-the-wire epic between two evenly-matched sides.

Pity indeed that there had to be a loser at all, but fitting that it was decided by a world-class strike from a top-class finisher, because it was James Topping's scintillating 58th-minute touchdown, and not the final 10-point margin, that was the ultimate real difference between fancied Ballymena and Clontarf, the snarling underdogs.