The Community Day was a logistical nightmare, a chaotic, stressful, and utterly exhausting undertaking.
But it was also one of the most beautiful, the most moving, and the most profoundly rewarding experiences of my life. It was the day that Moss Side Athletic stopped being just a football club, and started being a community.
The response from the local people was overwhelming. They came in their hundreds, a vibrant, diverse, and joyfully chaotic cross-section of the Moss Side community.
They came to support their local club, to show their solidarity, to be a part of something. They came to say, with their presence, with their money, with their voices, that this club mattered. That this club was theirs.
