Steve HILL
HILLY’S AWAY DAYS

EMOTIONAL RETURN: It’s great to be back at the Deva Stadium with fans on the terraces
PICTURE: Alamy

WHEN you live 200 miles from the ground you watch your football, every game is an away day – but home is where the heart is.
Astonishingly, my visit to Chester’s Deva Stadium last Saturday was my first since The Before Times – a record-breaking absence stretching as far back as New Year’s Day 2020.
Courtesy of this column, I did briefly emerge from my cocoon in July for a play-off at Altrincham, my first experience of the weird world of temperature checks, so...