THE COWSHED AT LAST

RYAN FERGUSON explains how sampling the legendary stand at Tranmere Rovers made him feel like a fully-fledged supporter 

IN HIS opus Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby proffered a fairly valid question: “What the hell is buried in the subconscious of people who go to Leyland DAF Trophy games?”There are a few possible answers. Masochism, a need to escape the visiting inlaws, or a hopeless reliance upon the travails of a local football club to moderate one’s mood.Twenty-two years after Hornby posed his life-questioning teaser, and eight years since the arcane competitio...

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