Andy McCann: What Football Means To Me
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In this episode, I'm chatting with Andy McCann. Andy will be known to long-term Anfield Rap listeners as a regular contributor to shows. As he tells me, his first memory of football was actually about playing it.
Growing up in Old Swan, Woodhall Road, tight terraced houses, not as many cars as you see today parked on the side, so you had a bit more space outside my ma's house. And it's kind of a, I suppose it's a hybrid between, it's using a footy, but for a different game, which... I'm presuming most of the listeners will know it's Kirby. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so you're playing different versions of Kirby but with a footy. So you'd have a football and you'd obviously play Kirby. I'm presuming if you don't know what it is, you're trying it to Kirby. It comes back. If you catch it, you get bonus points. The ultimate is if you do it, you can hit that curb, it bounces back and hit this curb. It's like you're the king of the street.
So there's a bit of that. And then where I grew up, we lived in the next row to my nan. So we were Woodall and I lived in Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald Road from Old Swan goes right along and there's a BT kind of factory at the end of the road. It's weird because it's like in the middle of all the terraced houses in the state. But next to the block, the building, was one of them painted goals, you know, on a wall. So it was a wall and it was a little bit of a space And I think there's a lad, I think he's either been on The Wrap, or The Wrap have definitely featured him on something, has done a project called Urban Goals, and he's done, like, a project where he's took pictures, he's gone round all the best, and the one by Where I Grew Up featured on it, I think it was, like, it got into the top ten, but...
I think it votes, and it was just there, playing footy there with, you know, as a six-, seven-, eight-year-old, just playing footy with schoolmates, and then, like, the older lads would come and rub your ball. You'd play three and in, heads and volleys, all that. And then, yeah, just that, really. That was where kind of the passion come from.
So is there a point at which you remember it moving from kicking a ball to watching the proper teams playing?
Yeah. The moment... So the first ever game I went to is a bit of a folklore game because it was in 85 and it was that Jan Molby goal. Right. The greatest goal that anyone ever saw for years. And it was 20 years later or something, someone found the footage of it. Yeah. so it was that game but if i'm honest i don't really remember it i don't remember it being like a massive gold you know i mean i remember it being good but i think it's been lost in time really in the sense of i don't whenever when the video come out everyone was like oh yeah it was all right i don't think it was ever as good as any but that was my first ever game going to watch but then i remember really getting the bug it was probably
Eight, nine months later, because I'm pretty certain it was the same season, was the Derby, the Cup Final, the 86 Cup Final. I would have been eight.
What are Andy McCann's earliest memories of football?
It was the first time I remember really watching it, really kind of being like, oh, this is what watching football is about, not just playing it. And we lived, as I said, in Woodall Road, the house. We lived next to a family of Blues, so we had like an entry between us.
Right.
and they had all their blue and white and my mum had done all those red and white I vividly remember that and then the other one that I vividly remember is on the day of the cup final or like the men going I didn't get to go to that one I went to the 89 one but didn't get to go to the 86 one and I remember just like being I don't know if I was crying but I remember being absolutely fuming do you know what I mean and then as soon as the kind of the coaches or the cars had left or the fellas had woke up
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:53
2
What are Andy McCann's earliest memories of football?
3:53–4:40
3
How did growing up in Old Swan shape Andy's football experience?
4:40–17:10
4
What was Andy's first experience watching a live football match?
17:10–49:39
5
How did the Hillsborough tragedy impact Andy's view on football?
49:39–50:18
Speakers
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