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THE BIZARRE WORLD OF BERWICK RANGERS: SIMON BAXTER TAKES A VISIT TO THE ENGLISH-BASED CLUB WHO PLAY THEIR FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND…

If you take a stroll along the historic medieval ramparts of Berwick-upon-Tweed, you are, without a shadow of a doubt, in England.

If you take a stroll along the historic medieval ramparts of Berwick-upon-Tweed, you are, without a shadow of a doubt, in England.
The pubs serve pint after pint of northern English ale, the local accents carry a distinctive Geordie-meets-Borderland twang, and the town itself has notoriously changed hands between England and Scotland roughly 13 times over the centuries. Historically speaking, loyalty here is a fluid concept.
Yet, if you walk ten minutes south of the River Tweed and step through the turnstiles at Shielfield Park, you cross an invisible, unpoliced border and drop straight into ...

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