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The indomitable chronicler of Ayr United takes a look at football in the context of the global pandemic of 2020. A time when the game's pomposity is at threat of being ridiculed by happenings that bring it crashing right down to earth.

A history of Ayr United Football Club

In a beautiful world these football statistics would be full of triumphant information generated by glorious success. Yet for every `all time best' there is an `all time worst'. The glorious and the inglorious. As even the most spellbinding statistics can lose their allure, narrative is used to bring them to life. And great photographs.

Duncan Carmichael, the renowned historian of Ayr United, turns his attentions to the nine titles won between 1912 and 2018. As he reflects, the idea of winning - and celebrating - titles is not familiar to the real fans who support provincial clubs. These are the stories of when dreams came true.

The history of the men who became managers of Ayr United - from 1910 to the present - and the times in which they did their job, from the pen of the Club's renowned historian.