I'd been in Liverpool for two days when this first started. I never had any plans for what happened at all! I just wanted my life to be normal, you know? I just wanted to wake up, go to university, come home, play Football Manager and then sleep. Unfortunately, things were much more complicated than that.
I was just walking down the road, wearing my Tranmere shirt.
"Oy, you!" Someone called out to me, "you don't want to be seen wearing that shirt around here; you'll get fucking battered!" I saw that the man was wearing an Everton shirt. He didn't seem like a friendly person, so I immediately assumed he was a hooligan.
"Ha! Will I fuck!" I replied to the man, "bunch of nonces round here just gave me a couple dirty looks and moved on!"
"You know what? You've got balls! You could be useful! Come with me and I'll introduce you to the rest of the firm..."
I knew that I was almost certainly making a mistake, but I went with him anyway. When we found the other firm members, I knew I was making a mistake.
"Piss off back to Anfield, you Kopite twat!" One man shouted at a Liverpool fan who was throwing eggs at the Everton "safe house". Life wasn't going to be easy. I could already tell.
I was just walking down the road, wearing my Tranmere shirt.
"Oy, you!" Someone called out to me, "you don't want to be seen wearing that shirt around here; you'll get fucking battered!" I saw that the man was wearing an Everton shirt. He didn't seem like a friendly person, so I immediately assumed he was a hooligan.
"Ha! Will I fuck!" I replied to the man, "bunch of nonces round here just gave me a couple dirty looks and moved on!"
"You know what? You've got balls! You could be useful! Come with me and I'll introduce you to the rest of the firm..."
I knew that I was almost certainly making a mistake, but I went with him anyway. When we found the other firm members, I knew I was making a mistake.
"Piss off back to Anfield, you Kopite twat!" One man shouted at a Liverpool fan who was throwing eggs at the Everton "safe house". Life wasn't going to be easy. I could already tell.