Football is the game of the people and it's where the people go, happy and care-free. Out for the day until the match starts and they are exposed and vulnerable. As expectant of what could happen as they are fearful of what might actually happen. Why is it the other lot always score a last-minute winner at your place but you never do it at theirs? Nothing changes though and we accept what we are given and wait in the hope that one day things will get better. Constable Steve Marchant is someone that has to settle for his current lot in life. Nearly killed in a bizarre incident at small airport east of London, when a girl mowed him down in a van in a successful attempt to save his life. Makes no sense? Didn't then?doesn't now. He has to settle for the moment for being a team player, confined to his desk.

Doctor's orders. He also must settle for being a Brentford supporter. One of those teams; never quite here nor there, except?now they're fixtured to open the whole season at home to Arsenal. The word 'unbelievable' doesn't do it justice. Someone who is not a team player is Cade King. Seems like a good lad but can't quite get on the same page as those around him. Never has. Left his home in Wales on his fifteenth birthday to do his best in London.

His best wasn't quite good enough. Locked up for seven years and now, finally, he's finished his stretch. Free and released to the daylight. Time to get back to the football, back to life, and time to hold others to account for what they've done to him and not just on the pitch. His social worker told him to make a list and he has happily complied, except it's not the kind of list you'd ever want to be on?.