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Growing up is hard to do, especially if you’re a fan of the town’s rival football team and insist on wearing the full kit at every opportunity.Our chosen pitch was a large semi-circle of grass at the top of Montgomery...
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Jeremy Wisten had dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol Vincent Kompany. At age 12, the Malawian-born youngster was excelling among his age group as a quick, ball-playing centre-half. When Manchester City approached him playing for his local...
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Autumn 1994. I arrived in Padua, a small town in the north eastern corner of Italy and about a 20-minute train journey from Venice. I was a 21 year-old student of Italian and had never heard of the place -...
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Poem by Ian McMillan
Illustration by Robin Renard
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Illustration by Robin Renard
For anyone who has driven along Chester Road on a weekend morning over the past 20 years, through the bushes and railings that give you a split second’s glance at the home of Helsby Football Club, the chances are, you will have seen him. Situated...
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