On the 31st January 2014, a new idea for the direction of my YouTube channel would eventually alter the course of my life forever. Long before the Mark Goldbridges and Thogdans of the world, there I was making low quality video essays to camera reacting to Stockport County news and matches every Saturday night. This would continue throughout the rest of 2014 as I covered the remainder of the Hatters’ 2013/14 season, notably the worst league performance in the club’s history where they finished 11th in England’s sixth tier.

Fast forward to the start of the new season, and my channel had grown from a measly 11 subscribers (of which 3 were my own alternate accounts) to an also-measly 65. However, it was in this new season where it appeared that my opinion pieces were again starting to get on the nerves of the higher-ups at Edgeley Park who eventually decided that the best way to ‘silence’ me was to give me a single page piece in the weekly matchday programme. The article would be a weekly Q&A segment on matchdays where I would wander around the stadium and surrounding areas and get fan answers to one question a week. None of the questions were particularly thought provoking but it gave me a purpose at a time in my life where I definitely needed that. There was no expectation for me to stop producing YouTube videos at this time either, meaning I could get the best of both worlds.

With this newfound volunteer role came a bit more access to the stadium on matchdays. I would arrive early each week and eventually managed to wangle my way onto the matchday media team, it was also around this time that I was able to jump into the role of receptionist on the players and officials door for matches.