ANDY Smart’s column about the link between beer and Non-League football (NLP, May 3) brought back some great memories to me and reminded me too about the days when I was young and fit enough to play for the Marine supporters’ football team.
Although I have never been a huge beer fan, I, like most football supporters, have flirted with the amber nectar from time to time over the years.
My first pint, for example, was bought for me by the legendary Marine player Ben Forster somewhere around 1967. It was on the way home from Droylsden where we had won 5-3 in a midweek Lancashire...