Rivelino - A Life in Two Halves

When Andy Rivers was at a young and impressionable age, a family member took him to his first match in the early seventies, and that's how he discovered Newcastle United. Given the stress and despair this has caused him over the last thirty years, it's fair to assume that this action would be considered child abuse today. His story, peppered with terrace wit and rough charm, will be identified with by supporters everywhere.

"When you consider them in a football sense, you think of 'little Rotherham playing Newcastle? Oh, the romance of the cup.' Well, all I could see was fifteen-stone, pie-eating nutters covered in tattoos, and no matter how much aftershave they'd slapped on, there'd be no f**king romance going on there, I can tell you...!"

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