Always Meet (and play Sunday League football with) Your Heroes

The year is Championship Manager 01/02. My hair is shaggy and bleached blond, my sixth-form suits are simultaneously too big and too tight on my weird teenage body (it’s still weird), and I’m sharing a room with my pre-teen brother. It’s going great.

Somewhere in all of that mess, I started supporting Bromley Football Club. As if I weren’t awkward enough, I began to idolise a bunch of Ryman League footballers. Big Danny Harwood, tough-tackling Dean Forbes and Grant Watts, wing-wizards Gary Drewett and Kirk Watts, dynamite strikers Wade Falana and Adolph Amoako. If you know, you know.