football firsts

First game you watched live?
It would have been when I got to Australia and watched Perth Glory v Gold Coast United when I was about 11 or 12, so roughly around 2007. I’m sure it was a knockout game and Glory went through with an extra-time winner.
I had a love for football when I was growing up in New Zealand, but I would always rather be playing than watching.
First football hero?
The first football player I really started to analyse and watch videos of all the time was Gareth Bale – it was a couple of years before he went to Madrid and he was just starting to turn i...