L is for Lock

I’ve already mentioned how numerous incidental characters in Foul and Fair are named after Fulham players of days gone by. Mr Lock’s café, as frequented by Hayley and PC Martin Pike (coincidentally, another ex-Fulham namesake) is partially named after Kevin Lock, par...

K is for Kieran

Kieran is a character who, from an inspirational point of view, has many fathers (which is ironic, as I think most people would agree that he’s a bit of a bastard). I’d like to categorically state that Kieran is not modelled on any one particular person; he’s an ama...

Apparently Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the last person who could claim to have read every book ever published; after that, there were simply too many books in the world for the feat to be possible. A few years ago (before I grew a beard) I was told I had an uncanny likeness to Coleridge, and while I...

J is for Joao. Joao was always going to be an important supporting character in Foul and Fair. I knew that I needed someone to be a catalyst for rapid improvement in the Swifts, and a new assistant coach seemed just the thing to challenge some of James’ habits and practices. When I first conce...