'I can't help falling in love': accepting the changing face of football as it moves through the eras

Dec 19, 2019, 10:20 PM

For many of us, football is more than a sport. It can act as an anchor, in as pronounced a manner as our loved ones. More important than work, food and sleep, there is a generation of football watchers who straddle two different eras of the game - and they sometimes struggle to quantify their love. They cling to an era when the game hooked them, yet despair where it is today. It is within this spirit that we speak to the author of the wonderful book I Can't Help Falling In Love With You: Growing up as a Football Addict, Greg Whitaker.