Episode summary: This week David and Helen talk with the historian David Kynaston about his diary of the 2016-17 season in football and in politics, when a lot happened both to the world and to his beloved Aldershot FC. It’s a conversation about loyalty, identity and belonging, and about what sorts of change we can tolerate and what we can’t. Plus Helen reflects on her life as a West Ham fan. Talking Points: For David Kynaston, football is about identity. - We all have our personal myths. - Continuity of space, even colours, is also important. Football in Britain has derived a lot of meaning from the relationship between club and place. - The continuity between location and fan base broke at some point in the 1990s, maybe earlier. - And then there are questions of ownership, management. For David Kynaston, football is rooted in place; politics is not. - Small and medium sized towns feel ‘left behind’; these places have also been left behind in the football sense. - But anger about the inequalities or the premier league…
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