MY FOOTBALL

BAD TIMING A Houston Dynamo fan proposed to his girlfriend mid-match – but LA Galaxy then ruined their moment by scoring seconds later

What was the first game that you ever attended?

I don’t know the game, but I do know Peter Beardsley scored two goals, so it would have been in the early ’90s. You don’t forget that kind of noise when you see your team score for the first time. My dad was a Liverpool fan and my eldest brother was an Evertonian. I was a rebel and wanted to go against my father as always, just to prove him wrong. Once my brother took me to Goodison Park at about nine