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 my Dad as he blindly jabs the ‘MW’ button. Quickl...