04-05-2025
Carrick's Allen and Portadown's Redman retire
Carrick Rangers striker Curtis Allen and Portadown defender Ross Redman have both called time on their football 37, brings the curtain down on a career that has included two spells with Coleraine as well as time at Bournemouth, Lisburn Distillery, Linfield, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and forward won the Irish Premiership title with the Blues in 2010, the League Cup with Coleraine in 2020 and the Irish Cup with Glentoran in his six-year stay at the Glens, Allen scored 110 goals in 232 took over as interim manager of Carrick earlier this season alongside Mark Surgenor following the sacking of Stuart began his career with hometown club Portadown, winning the Championship and the League Cup with the Ports in left in 2016 to sign for Glentoran before joining Dungannon Swifts on 36-year-old then went to Ballymena United in 2020 before returning to the Ports on a free transfer in once again helped his side to win the Championship in his first season back at Shamrock Park before helping them to an eighth-place finish in the Irish Premiership this year.
