IT'S JUST AS WE REMEMBERED IT

FOR James Kennedy, watching again a team he followed as a boy has been about research as much as relaxation.

- Andy Simpson

He took an old friend from high school, Adam Jump, after together they had an idea to write a sitcom about the characters that attach themselves to a Non-League football club.

“We stood on the terraces and just eavesdropped,” Kennedy told The NLP.

“It’s the people that go to the game, and a community they become part of, that fascinates us.”

Last weekend, the duo presented a pilot for ‘The Albion’ to an audience for the first time during a screening at Witton Albion’s Wincham Park home.