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I grew up during a period of near total domination for Liverpool Football Club but one thing I shall always remember is a notebook my Dad had stored away in which he had kept a record of all the FA Cup results for several seasons in the early 1950s. Poring through this, I recall my shock at reading the score line, ‘Gateshead 1-0 Liverpool' - to such an extent that I suspected my father had been engaging in some earlier fantasy game – a homespun forerunner of Football Manager.