The First Time Ever I Saw Your Ground: Scunthorpe United and Glanford Park

It’s over 100 years since E M Forster wrote “The Machine Stops”. If you haven’t read it I suggest you give it a go. After you have you won’t worry too much about the slight delay to the publication of this post in Pete Sixsmith’s “First Time ” series. You might, however, worry about the prevalence of the gremlins that stopped it reaching us.

“The Machine Stops”, by the way,  is recognised as a classic in the world of science fiction.  Pete Sixsmith, not quite as old, is recognised as a classic in the world of football writing. You know why:

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