Did I miss a meeting?

This is a perfect Saturday evening. When the skies are this blue in Manchester is there a finer place on earth?

Support act Olivia Dean, who has a breathtaking voice and a kick-ass band, tells the crowd: “Manchester you look absolutely beautiful” and she’s not wrong.

And yet I feel a bit left out as I appear to be the only person in Wythenshawe Park not wearing a Newcastle football shirt.

Sam Fender has tapped into a very new kind of 'Lad Culture', using the relationship between football and music and cultivating it into something inclusive and accessible for everyone. I'm not convinced that many people in this field wearing the barcode shirts could tell you who cult 2000s winger Laurent Robert is, but that's OK.

Those few who resisted wearing the Geordie sport

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