Jonny Brick selects a team with a difference...
In the lifetime of the football fanzine, and 30 years since Nick Hornby wrote a book which coincided with the coming of the Premier League, football in England has reached out to the middle class and all the perils that may involve: professionalising refereeing, venture capital owners of Burnley, the way ordinary fans are priced out of elite football; the Oxbridge-educated football critic who can go from John Stuart Mill to Danny Mills.
Yet as we know, football is the game of the masses, the Lowry figurines who flocked like matchsticks to their ...