football firsts 

First game you watched live? My dad, Tony, was a manager when we were kids so my earliest memories are of going to watch his Whitby team. I also remember going to a lot of Middlesbrough games. But the first one I specifically remember was the 1987 FA Cup final, when Coventry beat Spurs. I was nine at the time. My dad had got us four tickets, two in each end. At the hotel before the game, some fans had written ‘Spurs’ across my forehead, which didn’t go down too well when I walked into the Coventry end! Strangely enough, Keith Houchen scor...