Told by Jason Marriner
In his own words · @marrinerj8
Before the terraces, before the away days. A ball, a few marbles and the lads from the flats. That's where it all began for most of us.
There was two jumpers and a football and your friends on a park
Where it all began, for many kids: on the street, playing marbles, knock down ginger.
I used to go and nick the Cherryade bottles, take them back to the shop and get me two bob, get me 10 pence back off the shop. Them days, you could walk into the local shop and buy a single cigarette.
No one went without, but there wasn't a few quid about until a few years later, so people were sort of hand to mouth every week.
It all started off on the streets. There was no games, there was no mobile phones, there was no technology, there was no social media, there was nothing. There was two jumpers and a football and your friends on a park, as many times a week as you could. It's as simple as that.
And obviously, as I believe, every kid should support who their dad supports.
That's where we all started, on the streets, on the cobbled streets. And I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Jason