NEIL COTTON decides to clear out his collection – and then finds it’s a lot harder to do than he first thought…

MEMORABILIA
NEIL COTTON
FOR the best part of 20 years I’ve been carrying around a collection of football programmes.
The vast majority of these I acquired over the two seasons in which I had a season-ticket at The Dell, during which time a vital part of my matchday ritual would be the trip to the programme shop ‘collectors corner’.
Accommodated within a nook of the Milton Road stand, the shop offered not just that day’s programme, or the ...