On Wednesday, my seven-year-old son, Stefan, did his usual post-school routine of going up to his bedroom and getting changed into a full football kit to play imaginary games of football using our border collie as a goalie in the garden.
“Can I have a marker pen? Never mind.”
He comes downstairs five minutes later with an old Chester shirt, the one from 2019/20, with ABREU 19 scrawled on the back. And out he goes to take on Wrexham and win 15-0. Job done. Jefferson Abreu scored eight of the goals, the rest scored by Billy Waters. A good result for the imaginary Blues.




