'My DNA is in the ground'
Rita: My Dad grew up on Wilburn Street. When he looked left out of his front door, Goodison Park was right there. Him and my whole family (bar one cousin on my Mum's side) were Evertonians. As a child in the 70s, I didn't really get football apart from the goals, but the thing that made me support Liverpool was their song. I first heard You'll Never Walk Alone at the 1971 FA Cup final (we lost to Arsenal) and that was that. By the 1974 FA Cup final (we beat Newcastle), my teddy bear was wearing a red and white scarf that my Mum had "helped" me knit and I had team posters on my bedroom wall. I've followed them ever since.
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