When flicking through some fanzines for the recent Matchday Print post, I stumbled across something I'd forgotten about. That time I was a body double for a professional footballer. Really.
Back in 2004 I was living in Sunderland and was persuaded by some Mackems to go away to Millwall. Three of us wandered up Sheepfolds to visit A Love Supreme's headquarters to get coach tickets. ALS supremo Martyn McFadden then asked if we'd like to pose in some of his merchandise to go in the fanzine - specifically an FTM tee.
MM said he was going to do a piece based on Lee Clarks ill fated SMB tee plus a couple other Sunderland players who left under a cloud. We obliged as I seem to recall a slight discount on coach tickets and it broke the ice for getting a journalism placement at ALS later in year (one published article is up on blog here, an interview with Ben Clark - just click on ALS on labels below).
We went to Millwall. They got beat. We were in the fanzine. Marky as Clarky (left), John as Micky Bridges (R) and I'm the angel as the centrefold - Allan Johnston.
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