U8: Paul Dalglish, Newcastle United, Merlin’s Premier League 99 Official Sticker Collection, Transfer Update Edition
There are many signs you are getting old. It could be the three days of exhaustion you suffer after daring to take part in something resembling social activity. Maybe it’s the insidious emergence of more and more grey hairs everywhere and anywhere. Perhaps it’s the increasing level of effort needed to vacate a chair. Following any form of professional sport is unhelpful too. In this year’s County Championship the children of former England captains Mike Atherton, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff have all made telling contributions across the various cricketing formats. A few months earlier the progeny of both Neil Danns and Jason Koumas scored for Liverpool in their FA Cup win over Southampton while Ipswich Town celebrated their return to the Premier League by signing Rory Delap ’s son Liam to join David Hirst ’s lad George. Apparently Manchester City’s Norwegian goal robot also had a father who played in the English top flight but that would suggest he was in anyway human. Footba