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I started playing football at school when I was in Year 4. Mr. Oakden was running the after school football club then, and we had little five-a-side matches, while Years 5 and 6 had 11-a-side matches, practicing for football matches.
When I went into Year 5, Mr. Selby took over the school football team, but the F.A. changed the rules so you had to be in Year 6 to play 11-a-side football, so would I be in the school team? Luckily for us Year 5s, there wasn't enough Year 6s to play 11-a-side, so Mr. Selby applied for the 7-a-side school league. The very first game I played in for the school, unfortunately we lost. Our best ever result (that I remember) we won 7 - 0.
Me and Chris can just not get enough football. The only reason that I started supporting a football team was that Chris and my Uncle Bill were always on about Stoke and the F.A. Cup. I then gradually got more and more interested, with people buying me shirts until I was 7 years and 11 months old. My Uncle Bill had got me and him a ticket to the Stoke v Middlesbrough game. I walked through the turnstile and out on to the stand. There were people advertising the new Kellogg's Rice Crispies Squares bars by giving them away. We watched the game, Middlesbrough scoring first then Graham Kavanagh scored a penalty to bring the game to one all. But Middlesbrough scored again to win the game.