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THIRTY-SIX years ago this month I left Liverpool to go to University.
Well, alright it was a Polytechnic, but I don?t know the difference and hardly anyone remembers them, so we?ll go with that.
I was 19 at the time and was leaving behind everything I knew including Liverpool FC. It would be a challenge as I went to pretty much every home game back then though hardly any aways. Maybe I could at least get some of them under my belt in my new metropolitan life.
And so it transpired. Mere weeks after I dropped my suitcase onto a barely carpeted floor in Woolwich, South London, I was at Upton Park to see the top-of-the-table Reds play basement fodder West Ham in the League Cup. We lost 4-1. ?Hammered,? roared the noticeably London-ified Daily Mirror.
Over the years, I visited every major ground in the capital and asked myself the same question.
?If Liverpool ceased to exist or if I was from here, which club would I support"?
Certain clubs could be ruled out instantly. Chelsea and Tottenham were never going to be for me. QPR may have an excellent kit, but they were, as Danny Baker once said, ?more of a courtesy side? and not to be taken seriously.
The stronger candidates included nearby Charlton (one stop away on t...