Mike Garlick, the former chairman of Burnley, in February embarked on a fresh footballing challenge — to help lead Antequera up the Spanish league ladder, just as he had previously supported Sean Dyche in achieving the Lancashire club’s longest spell of top-flight tenancy since the 1960s. “I didn’t want to buy a big club,” Garlick says, sitting in the reception of the hotel across the road from the stadium. “The most enjoyable thing about Burnley wasn’t the day you won something or got promotion but the actual journey — and I wanted a journey. I looked at Antequera and thought, ‘We could go on a journey here.’ ” Garlick, who stepped down as Burnley chairman after the club’s purchase by ALK Capital in December 2020 and left the board altogether last year, adds: “I knew I’d miss the buzz of football and I got offered a lot of different clubs in England but I’m a Burnley fan so I wasn’t that keen. “We already had a house in Spain, near Marbella, and my wife speaks Spanish ...