'I begged Mum for a Beckham mohican!'

Even though I grew up in north London, my love for the Reds has been with me since the age of about four, when my dad bought me the 99/00 season away kit

I remember wearing it whenever I got the chance: I’d come straight back from school, run upstairs to put it on, and ask my mum to take me to the park so I could practise in it.

I guess the person I really have to thank for why I'm a Manchester United fan is my grandad, Victor. He has been a supporter since the Busby Babes, at which time he was a teenager in a small fishing village just outside Accra called Apam. Obviously my grandad passed this passion down to my dad, who in turn passed it down to me.

The only person on my dad’s side of the…