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Martin Potts

Martin Potts

Retired headteacher, grassroots footballer and poet from the Wirral specializing in autobiographical poetry about Northern England

Jul 14, 2026

10:50
Mm-hmm
10:50
... obviously who had the connection with Everton, they'd given him a job there.
10:53
And, um, that's where my mum worked because, um, that was an interesting place.
10:58
Non-unionized labor and, and if there was a winning coupon that someone had phoned in about and they hadn't found it on, but on a Monday, but, but on, on a Monday they weren't allowed to leave until they'd found the coupon.
11:11
She used to get, um, sometime to do spot the ball-
13:39
Right.
13:40
So this is probably 1959.
13:43
I'm living in Lancaster in a cul-de-sac that wasn't a metal surface.

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