ALLY McKENZIE explains how football takes over your life, giving you great highs and painful lows…

IT HAS recently struck me that my relationship with football is no longer infatuation but a full blown obsession that there is no escape from.
It consumes every part of my functioning brain from first thing in the morning to last thing at night to the extent where the most ordinary of things becomes football related.
I don’t look at, say, 2012 as a year but the latter stages of 2011-12 season and the first half of the 2012-13 season.
Like all football fans, my yearly calender...