Even though I was never fortunate enough to see him play live, Johan Cruyff has become one of my idols. Due to an unfortunate sense of timing, our family left Rotterdam to go and live in New Jersey at almost the precise moment that Cruyff fell out with Ajax and sought revenge by signing for […]

It is something that I have been doing since I was very young; initially it was at the instigation of my Dad, who in many ways is as hopeless as I am; but as I got older and able to go on my own, it developed into more and more of a habit that seems […]

Way back in 1977 my Dad took me to my first football match and it proved to be both a significant and a life-influencing event. At the time I wasn’t sure which team I was supporting but I know that Everton beat Arsenal at Goodison Park and that we went with my uncle George and […]