Originally written in July 2017 The Bradford City fire disaster. The Kenilworth Road riots between Luton Town and Millwall fans. Hooliganism, Heysel, Hillsborough. These are some of the darker images that linger in the mind when we think of football in the 1980s when the reputation of British football fans had sunk so low that they had apparently seeped out of the bottom of the barrel to the extent that their clubs were banned from playing in European competition. When

Originally written in June 2017 What do you get out of football and sport in general? Apart from the obvious emotional tube-ride we enjoy with the masses, the thrills and the spills, running the gamut of agonisingly unjust defeats and those invigorating derby day victories, that semi-sadomasochistic pleasure and pain that is indiscriminately doled out by the football gods during the holy season of mid-august ‘till the following May, apart from all that, what does sport give back to you?