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Derry Girls' Dylan Llewellyn: 'Palace is in the blood'

Everything about Dylan Llewellyn's role in the Channel 4 hit series Derry Girls is a little out of place.

To start, he's an Englishman living in Northern Ireland during ‘The Troubles’. And what's more, he plays the only boy in an all-girl secondary school.

All in all, he cuts far from an inconspicuous figure and then, to top it off, he dons a red and blue shirt, flaunts it on Instagram and heads to nearby Irish bars to follow a club 540 miles away from where his job forces him to reside.

But growing up surrounded by supporters of what he calls 'the big boys' - Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United ("you're not even northern!