It’s yesterday once more
I made the cut again!
I made the cut again!
I am pleased, proud and privileged to announce that my article has made the cut once more in Liverpool Football Club’s longest running (28 years) and now only remaining independently produced and written fanzine. Without wishing to re-hash the same sentiments I’ve expressed in similar articles to this one, I am more than proud to see my name under an article that gives me the tiniest of tiny connections to the football club I’ve adored since my earliest childhood memories, a cherished memory of which accounts for this particular article for the fanzine’s regular column entitled “Yesterday’s Paper” of which, it seems, I have either taken over or been de-facto placed into being its regular contributor.
Yet another unpaid writing gig!
My brother-in-law asked me a few weeks ago as to how much I’ve earned from my writing and I don’t think he’s stopped laughing ever since! OK I may now have made a few English pounds via the books I self-published in April, May and June of this year, but I fear looking at the actual Amazon stats as I don’t want my dreams to be dashed or for reality to kick me squarely into life’s row Z. I write as a means of practice, honing my craft (and to be able to write a pretentious statement such as “honing my craft”!) and because it has to be leading somewhere, even if it’s over the rainbow of yesterday.
I am allowed to dream aren’t I? The megalomaniacal crazies who rule the world haven’t outlawed it.
Not yet anyway.
Here’s my original article I posted here a few weeks ago as well as the article now in all its printed, pre-season football glory, and a link to my book the editor kindly plugged for me:
The Day The Reds Came to Town
Portsmouth 0 Liverpool 3, 8th August 1982.medium.com
“Chasing the Impossible and a Sword of Damocles” — Out Now!
The un-holy trinity is complete!medium.com
Thanks for reading. Here are three examples of the delights that can be found within my cave of wonders that doubles for my many and varied archives here:
Ashes debrief and final cricketing ramble for the Summer
“Bowling from the Pavilion End, Stephen Blackford.medium.com
Evening sunshine from beautiful Ironbridge
27th July 2023.medium.com
It was a Christopher Nolan type of a day
“It was me Murph, I was your ghost”.medium.com