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MY FOOTBALL

What was the first game that you ever attended?

My dad took me along to Leicester vs Liverpool at Filbert Street in 1986. Back then you could get close to the players – he took me close to the tunnel, and I shook Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish’s hands. Meeting Rush was a big deal, as my family is Italian and he was going there to play for Juventus, which was very rare back then. We lost and I was only five, but I knew then that the team in blue had hooked me, and I was in it for life.

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