DANIEL GRAY RECALLS A MIDDLESBROUGH MATCH AT NOTTS COUNTY IN AUGUST 1993 THAT SPARKED A PASSION FOR FURTHER ROAD TRIPS...

Wing wizard: Middlesbrough’s Alan Moore

ON THE radio Gabrielle sings about dreams. Fluffy tassels protrude from the car window’s top edge, trapped rigid. The rest of my scarf quivers outside, a red and white ensign lofted by the motorway headwind.
One mishap with our new-fangled electric windows and it will skedaddle through the air and lay to rest in some South Yorkshire farmer’s field.
“I can’t stand this song,” says ...