All clubs will get the same love from me

People often ask me who my football team is. They expect – largely because I spend my days rearranging the words in this very paper – my response will a club mucking it out in the lower leagues. But it’s not. I was born, despite my softly spoken southern tones, a few meaty kicks away from Ayresome Park and so my team, as much as it pains me to admit it at times, is Middlesbrough. We’re not quite Non-League, but give it time I say…
When I reveal this, people often follow it up by asking if there is a N...