Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
I had a Sunday ritual of studying all of the league tables (even non league) in the papers after the Saturday fixtures. I’d also read the new Rothman’s every year virtually from cover to cover - I still get it now, but I only use it now to look things up. Up to my forties, I could automatically answer who the manager was and the name of the ground of every Football League club - now, I struggle to name all of the managers in the Premier League.
I think I’d still continue with my Sunday morning ritual if I was still buying Sunday papers, but there’s not the motivation, and possibly memory capacity, to be the same football nerd I was as a young man. Third Lanark is the first club I can remember going bust and Clydebank packed up soon afterwards didn’t they.
One other thing, I think I’ve mentioned before on here that I believe I owe my good knowledge of English and, to a lesser extent, Scottish geography almost entirely to football.