STEVE LAMACQ
The legendary radio DJ remembers Bovril in china cups, punk night pals, ballads for awful left-backs... and the time Gordon Strachan put him in hospital
STEVE LAMACQ COLCHESTER
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So… why Colchester United?
I grew up in a family where no one followed football, so there was no pressure on me. When I was seven, I fell into supporting Arsenal because I liked Charlie George. But then punk rock happened and I fell out of love with the game for a while – the former took over all my spare time and changed everything. When I turned 17, though, I came back to football. Colchester was a short bus ride away and the nearest Football League club to where I was from.
What was the first match that you ever attended?
The first one I have memory of was a Friday night game against Mansfield in late 1982; Roy McDonough – Red Card Roy – was upfront for us. It was a horrible, rubbish match on an awful pitch, and Roy scuffed a shot before falling over in the mud. As he picked himself up, I yelled, “Go on Roy, you’ve still got five minutes – make a name for yourself!” He looked dead straight at me and gave a single-finger salute.