This week’s guest is Andy Mitten. You’ll likely know Andy best as an authoritative voice on Manchester United, having founded the very successful United We Stand fanzine as a 15-year-old.
He also writes for a range of outlets including the Athletic, the Sunday Times, the BBC and is editor-at-large of FourFourTwo magazine.
We talk about how and why he founded United We Stand while he was still in school, and how it has changed over the decades. It was one of many fanzines to give supporters a voice in the 1980s and 1990s, and we talk of how supporters’ voices have influenced and changed modern football writing.
The interview is also packed full of stories, featuring encounters with Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane along with a trip to Mexico to find Diego Maradona.
Andy’s picks were:
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