football firsts

First game you watched live?I can’t remember anything about it, but I’m told I was five when I first went to watch Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. My dad supported them, so he probably dragged me along with him. It was the season we went to Wembley, 1990-91, and played Manchester United in the FA Cup final, with Mark Bright, Ian Wright and Steve Coppell as manager.First football hero?Attilio Lombardo, who signed for Palace in 1997. To this day, I don’t know how we got him -he was an Italian international at the top of his game with Juventus. H...