“Wallsend Boys Club is about being great citizens. That’s the ethos now and always has been. We look after the kids. Parents can put kids off football. We had one goalkeeper whose dad stood behind the goal, and got on his back if he let a goal in. At the end of the game, the kid came and stood with me. He didn’t want to be with his dad. One of the kids said: ‘You’re more of a father to me than my father ever had been.’ ”