Nostalgia's like a beautiful cherry on the icing of my relationship with football.

Like a lot of my relationship with football is active and in the present tense.

But nostalgia is like a really fun sideline to dip into from time to time like i'm going to watch all

eric cantona's goals or i'm going to think about how good david beckham was in the 98 99 season

um or i'm just going to think about dwight york for 20 minutes you know it is a kind of optional extra on the real lived experience of watching football

in here and now.

That was Paul Ansoj and I'm Joe Devine.

Welcome to Whiteboard Football Extra.

For the next two episodes of this podcast, the theme is nostalgia.

I wanted to find out if nostalgia affects our relationships with football in the same way that it might do with art. For example,

it's often said that people develop the strongest bonds with bands or singers in their early

teenage years, bonds that will stick with them throughout their adult life.

I questioned whether this was the same for football, whether nostalgia plays as big a part

in adults enjoying the sport. To discuss this in more detail, I spoke with five people about their

relationships with the sport, including journalists Ian McIntosh and James Montague, regular contributor

and columnist Paul Ansorge, Premier League photographer and winner of the Premier League

Photographer of the 20 Seasons Award, Mark Leach, and his business partner and my uncle, Norwich

City fan and part of the committee for the Capital Canaries, Norwich City's fan club in London,

Damien Devine. I asked each person about their earliest and fondest memories of the sport,

the relationships built around the sport, and whether as an adult, they still actually liked football.

First on the list is Ian McIntosh. My earliest memory of football was watching the 1986 FA Cup final, which was Liverpool against Everton.

And the perfect sort of cup final.

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