My mind wanders back to when my youngest son, aged about 5 or 6 at the time, with a Conor Hourihane poster on his wall, realised there was another division that Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal were in and that being about fourth or fifth in our league didn’t mean we were one of the best teams in the country. I had tried and failed to keep it from him but no doubt some pesky schoolmate had exposed him to the uncomfortable truth.
“Why aren’t we in that league?” he asked.
“We’re trying son” I said.
Similarly, I grimaced when he wanted SJMs name on the back of his shirt in Gerrard’s one summer, thinking ‘he won’t be playing much in the coming season’.
Look at us all now.
