When the call is made how could I refuse?
UK Football Fans urgently needed to represent their teams in Major TV Broadcaster commercial campaign!
The pitch:
I’ve been a Notts fan since I was 10 years old – so 51 years of pain!
I am a season ticket holder facing a 5-hour round trip for home matches. I travel away too.
A tad before his fourth birthday I took Adam to his first match away at Oxford United. I can’t remember the score yet I clearly recall him holding my hand and looking up at me with his beautiful blue eyes at the half-time whistle and blurting out the never to be forgotten statement, “Daddy can we go home now?”
A few years later I finally lost him to Arsenal when Notts played the Gooners in a friendly, albeit my Will mandates that he attends at least one Notts match a season!
I’ve written extensively about my footballing DNA and have had Notts pieces published in a variety of magazines, including Playboy and FHM.
My partners grandson Arthur is filling the void (even though his dad is a West Ham fan) and he was recently a mascot at Notts.
I’ve changed jobs, partners, and invariably my mind. I have flip-flopped on politics, places to live, and even giving parental advice to my kids. But change my football club? Never!
© Ian Kirke 2024 & all photographs.
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