Seminal moments Dec. 3, 2008

Truly seminal moments are few and far between. They probably have to be. Some go undetected.

On one of those ‘foul’ dark windy snowy winter evenings, in Blackburn, me and Gordon Taylor, boss of the Professional Footballers Association, stood in amazement before a group of schoolchildren, teachers and Natalie (the organiser), as we looked on drawings, photographs, paintings, collages, laptops, film, dance, dollops of humour, cakes and great manners, fired at some point by my Homes of Football exhibition entwined with theirs.

Meadowhead Junior Community School made us aware how football and art (other combinations might do) can transform the life of an individual and in turn create a better society.