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You're listening to The Amfield Rap. My name's Adam Smith and this is what football means to me.

In this episode, I'm speaking with Jack Hunter Spider. Jack would be known to listeners of the

Amfield Rap as a regular contributor to shows. He'll also be known thanks to the fact

that he won a bronze medal at the Paralympics in Tokyo. As Jack explains, though, he might not

have been a Liverpool supporter if he'd followed in the footsteps of his other Nana. I was born in

Anfield on Venmo, so if anyone knows that that it's literally the street going down towards a stadium

so I could see Anfield at my bedroom window so that's probably my first

interaction with football is what is that big absolute mecca in front of us

right okay so I mean you were almost destined to be a Liverpool fan there I guess

yeah in my family there was no choice so like my dad's side Is a big Liverpool fans My mum's side have got mixed With Inevit in Liverpool My dad used to take me The match and stuff When I was a little bit older So yeah Liverpool was always the club for me There was no other choice Where I was from like Yeah I mean I say that But many years ago, I did Blood Brothers and one of the guys in the cast was born on the road, or grew up, should say on the road, were Gooders and Parkers. And he's a Man United fan. Wow. And so, you know, there is a world, I guess, in which you could have been. But do you know why your parents ended up living there? Was it because of Amfield, or was that just a coincidence? I think most of my family are from around that way. We moved when I was little from that house, so I don't remember that house too much. I remember bits about it, but my nan lived at the top of Vemore. You could see the stadium outside of her house. She was actually a staunch Evanton fan, which is a bit funny. Okay, there you go. So she was in like a cell to accommodation at the bottom of Moe. You could see the stadium outside of her house. She was actually a staunch Evanton fan

which is a bit

funny.

Oh, okay.

There you go.

She was in like

a cell to

accommodation

at the bottom

of that road.

So ever since I've

been a kid,

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