“I dreamt I played for Liverpool last week. I woke up and realised I’m 62 now.” There was a moment in this week’s Experience podcast with Roddy Collins when he remembered the sounds that came from the extension that his father built at their house in Cabra.  Nine of them lived in the house and, as other people built extensions, Roddy Collins’s father built a boxing gym. Collins has worked with the best in Paul Howard to write his book, The Rodfather. He is also so effortlessly evocative in his own recall of those days that it is mesmeric. About…

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