Meet the Larne fan who is travelling over 11,000 miles to watch his team lift the Danske Bank Premiership title

Kerr was in Florida watching his 11-year-old son Lucas playing in a youth tournament when Larne entered the Premiership split and in the snowy slopes of Denver, Colorado last Friday with Tiernan Lynch’s men just one point away from securing the Gibson Cup.

They successfully defeated Crusaders to seal a first top-flight league trophy in their 134-year history and that got a chain of events rolling which resulted in Kerr flying from Denver to Miami, onto his home in the Cayman Islands on Monday evening to repack before 36 hours later departing once again for Miami, jetted to New York to catch a flight to Dublin before a taxi trip to Larne, arriving on Thursday afternoon for tonight’s encounter against Linfield.

“I have to be there,” he said. “I would do it every week. Hopefully this won't be a one-off and it's going to be special.

“When they were playing and had the chance to win it last week I was on the ski slopes in Denver so had to pull a sickie! I told my wife 'I'm not feeling well today, I'm just going to stay in the hotel!'.

“I found somewhere at the top of the mountains in Denver, plugged the laptop in and I had my Larne shirt on at the top of the slopes in Colorado.

“So people there definitely know who Larne FC are now because I was shouting and screaming – I could probably be heard back at Inver Park!

“It was emotional, unbelievable – everything just came together.”

Kerr, who has followed Larne for 40 years, is in attendance “six or seven” times per season but for the most part has been watching on from his home in the western Caribbean Sea.

His parents live a stone’s throw away from the club’s revamped training facilities and Kerr says it’s clear to see the impact Larne’s football team is having on the wider community.

“Back in the day if you were spotted in the street wearing a Larne shirt they would have dropped you in the harbour!” he laughed.

“When you go home now you see the buzz around town and all the kids are wearing their Larne shirts.

“When you look at what has happened over these last five or six years it's just incredible and it's so nice being able to share it with my dad.

“When you go to the training ground and see the young people training and studying and the facilities, it's just so heart-warming to see that's our little town.

“The town is half the size of Grand Cayman – we didn't even think there was anything smaller than here!

“We have 65,000 people living here on an island that is 23 miles long by three miles wide.

“To see a little town and club come from where it came from is incredible.”