Just when there seemed no room for anything but noise in the all-consuming world of football - no still, small space for those who might struggle with the game’s sound and fury - an introduction to Gate 12 at Wrexham’s ground, and what lay beyond it, told me otherwise, last Friday. It was a profoundly affecting experience.The gate, and the area of seating it leads to, is the vision of a woman I first encountered a year or so back, when writing a book about the transformation of Wrexham – both club and town – after the arrival of and . I called the book Tinseltown, though Kerry Evans’ work began long before Hollywood descended, at a time when the club could not afford to pay her a wage as its first disability liaison officer, nor fund away travel for fans who, like herself, were in a wheelchair. She raised the money herself.
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