The final

The FA Cup Final was a game we'd always watch on telly. In the olden days there would be cameras on the team coaches as they left the hotels to travel to Wembley (the old Wembley which, as anyone who visited it would attest, was a real mess as it got old). My dad would choke up during "Abide with me" and it still gets me - as I type this they've just sung it and I have something in my eye. I've got no great emotional investment in the game today except that Villa are from further north than the Cockneys (which is anyone from south of Mersey Sq in Stockport) so I'll be cheering on Villa as I sip my beer.