We're very happy to have an extract from family footballing love story Red Balloons by liampw from HalcyonPublish1. It's a story of grief, hope and Swindon Town.
Suitcases appropriately packed, we had a family holiday just south of Barcelona. With Niamh and Euan hitting their twenties, we knew the probability of us having the five of us together was something to treasure, and boy, it was. Vilanova i la Geltrú, August 2019: the vivid colour and cracks of sounds of a proud, defiantly Catalonian traditional town at fiesta time. The fierce heat, the maze of narrow streets, its majestic ramblas, even its extraordinary storm.
We sulked through a family meal in a friendly restaurant near the beach as we tracked Swindon being unceremoniously dumped out of the League Cup at Colchester. It’s what holidays are for. For tomorrow, we can go to the Camp Nou, do the tour, sit in the dugouts, wander, and wonder in awe. Somehow, it’s the same game.It’s the same game that soon sees us on the road to away games at Exeter and Cheltenham, full of bright, early season optimism, shared by increasing numbers of fellow supporters.
Three sumptuous feasts later, Coca Cola’d up and having used the code for the loos, we’re back on our way. We do march on, that particular purposeful stride of away fans in a remote city, we’re not just here to loot the cathedral, we’re here for the points. The cathedral does look magnificent, but unfortunately, with time also marching, we don’t have time to loot it, so we take a few pictures instead.
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