football firsts

First game you watched live?
I was a Reading fan growing up so it definitely would have been a Royals match – from memory, it was against Walsall. Me and my dad both had season tickets at Reading, so my first game would have been at the Madejski when I was about seven. I think we lost 1-0, so it wasn’t a great start...
First football hero?
I always loved watching Gianfranco Zola play. His touch, movement, skills, just everything about him. He was always my hero growing up when he was at Chelsea. I was always quite small growing up and with him being quite small as we...