What was the first match that you ever saw live?
I can’t remember! I used to go with friends and my family in ’64-65. I can remember going to see West Ham bring back the FA Cup, and that would have been around the time I first went to games as a kid – the Moore, Hurst, Peters period. What happened is: in ’64, West Ham won the FA Cup; in ’65, they won the Cup Winners’ Cup; and in ’66 they won the World Cup. I’m going to keep saying that until the day I die. That cemented not just West Ham but football as the main interest in my life.
Who was your childhood hero and did you ever meet them?
Obviously, Bobby Moore was a big figure in my childhood. He was a Barking lad, so he was a giant in all
