I was 10 and living in Libya. Spen my whole life abroad due to dad's job. So I was going to go to boarding school and we went on a family holiday with my dad's best m8 Chris and his family to Malta b4 going to England and the boarding school. When we were in Malta Chris kept singing these songs and when asked he told me they were to support his football team Everton who were the best team in England. He went on to inform me that if I was going to go to boarding school I would have to support a team. I found it amazing that men got paid to play football as where I had grown up around the world it was mostly amateur. I said I would support Everton but he said I would need to follow another one so we could have the banter when we played each other so i asked what other teams there were. He said there was one team who were almost as good as Everton and they were called Liverpool. By the end of the holiday I knew the words to Walk on and we flew to Leeds (boarding school was in harrogate) and the rest they say was history. Oh and the year was 1980 so not a bad time to start supporting them. Was challenged quite a lot as did't know the players or history so had a steep learning curve in short space of time and lots of arguments settled with fists with the other boys but all worth it.
