MATT FORDE
What was the first game you ever saw live?
That was Nottingham Forest 2-0 Sunderland in the 1990-91 season, when I was eight. I stood in the old Kop end, which is now the Bridgford End, and saw Nigel Clough and Steve Chettle both score. I already loved football but fell in love with football culture that day.
Who was your childhood hero, and did you ever meet them?
Brian Clough and Stuart Pearce, and I’m really lucky to have met them both; Clough, when I was a mascot at Forest once. I used to get Pearce’s autograph before every home game. There was one time when I saw him getting out
