It was like a dream. The first proper soccer match I watched in London was at Wembley. It was for the Charity Shield between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. This was in August 1982. I’d never seen the capital — 82,500 people were in attendance — in such raucous form before. I was fascinated and intimidated. More

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