I RECKON my early experiences of the match aren’t that typical of a footie-loving lad growing up on Merseyside. Those romantic ideals of dad and lad going to the Liverpool match together, passing down the traditions, sharing the routines, becoming versed in ‘the way’?...
I’M not sure this was my first game. In fact, I’m pretty certain it wasn’t. But rather than subjecting you to a fleeting, millisecond memory of a Graeme Souness side toiling against some claret and blue blur around 1992, I thought I’d recall the first game which...
IT seems strange to talk about my first game when I’ve no idea when the next one is, but these are strange days indeed. I’m not used to no football. I don’t suppose any of us are. And it’s not as if you can go and see a lower league game or even a kickabout in the...
“SELF-isolate,” they said. “Avoid mass gatherings and stay indoors” they said. “Great,” I said. “That’ll give me more time to write about football… Cancelled, you say?!” Yes, in these uncertain Coronavirus times, the football has been suspended. It is absolutely the...
THE footy being taken away from us has been cause for a lot of contemplation. Firstly, from a working point of view, what do we write about when there’s no games to talk about? Secondly, it makes you think about the football. Assess the impact it has had on your life,...
