My first football match: Everton v Blackburn in the harsh winter of 1962
[Hot Bovril and Cold Terraces series] Paul McParlan [This article first appeared in These Football Times, 28 July 2018] I was seven years old and driving my mum mad. My younger brother had been born just over 18 months earlier and was occupying most of her time. Match days always followed the same routine in our household: my dad would put on his suit and leave to meet his friends in the pub, prior to going off to Goodison to watch Everton. Occasionally he would depart a few hours earlier to catch a bus or a train to an away…
