Motty's
Year, by John Motson (2004)
JOHN MOTSON's diary of the football season starts in Northampton in August 2003 and takes him around all 92 English football league grounds before culminating with England's attempt to win Euro 2004 in Portugal.
Motson, a member of the Match of the Day team for nearly 30 years, has covered well over 1,000 matches for the BBC. Here, he offers an insight into his life on the road and what he found in the numerous places he visited in Britain and further afield.