Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
We are told as children that in the woods live all manner of creatures and furry things with ears, beings that will eat us up if we stray from the path, that they will snatch us, make us disappear and end up in the broth boiling away in the middle of the woods. There are those creatures though that despite the initial fear of what lays beyond, have only your best interests at heart.
I remember my first day
and the grey jumper of differing sizes
and snot stained cuffs
to which I was then tied throughout
my seven years at Moor Green
was one in which I met you
and forty years later I still
think you’re pretty cool.
We stood side by side in class
and in the playground, though I had further to travel
as we didn’t move to Selly Park
till the days when the Four Seasons
sang of a decade before and my first game against