His Dad Sang Him "You'll Never Walk Alone" as a Lullaby | Harry Davies | Football for Breakfast

Harry Davies's dad sang him "You'll Never Walk Alone" as a lullaby. Every single night. Instead of anything else. Harry is 21. He's about to graduate in mechanical engineering. He's a musician. And he found his dad's Istanbul 2005 tracksuit top in a wardrobe one day and quietly claimed it. He wasn't even there in 2005 - he was one year old. But he wears it now to every big game. The 4-3 win over Spurs when Jota scored the 96th minute winner. The Carabao Cup final. He thinks he might have worn it for a defeat or two as well, but he's not owning up to that. In episode ten of Football for Breakfast, Jim Johnson sits down with the youngest guest the show has had so far to talk about inheriting football, inheriting music and what it means to be young and obsessed with both in a city that's given the world The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and a song that started as a chart hit before kick off and somehow became Anfield's emotional centre of gravity. They talk about Bath City, the grassroots club Harry adopted at university - terraces, a beer in hand, watching with mates who could not care less about Liverpool and probably love it more for that reason. They talk about going to see the Oasis reunion twice this summer and what it felt like to be shaking with excitement for a band he was only four or five when they first split. The conversation turns properly interesting in the second half. Is youth culture over? Can social media ever again produce the kind of unifying cultural moment that gave the world Britpop, Merseybeat or punk? Harry, true to character, says he has to believe it can. He's an optimist. He thinks somewhere out there is the next Liam Gallagher, even if nobody's found them yet. Jim closes on him: proof that the next generation of football fans feel it just as deeply. The game is in safe hands. This is Football for Breakfast. Cafes. Clubs. Communities. Culture. --- ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Welcome to Football for Breakfast 01:26 Roy of the Rovers - the FA Cup quiz 02:06 Harry's earliest memory - the 2012 Carling Cup final 03:01 The first time he ever cried from football 03:33 You'll Never Walk Alone as a lullaby 04:16 Liverpool as a music city 04:57 Why other clubs can't replicate Anfield's anthem 07:32 Gerry and the Pacemakers - the record the Beatles never broke 08:48 Bath City - Harry's adopted grassroots team 09:30 What Bath City's ground looks like compared to Anfield 13:00 Crystallising university memories through football 14:21 Mechanical engineering and a sandwich year in construction 15:21 Music as a creative outlet alongside engineering 15:30 Looking for bandmates 16:30 Seeing Oasis twice this summer - shaking with excitement 18:14 Liam Gallagher - the last great frontman? 20:14 Is youth culture over? Can it happen again? 21:11 Social media and the death of cultural unity 23:12 The object - his dad's Istanbul 2005 tracksuit top 24:18 Why it means so much - inherited, not bought 24:45 Wearing it to the Spurs and Chelsea games 25:42 Everyone has an Istanbul story - Jim's TV repair night 26:48 Penalty shootout - five quickfire questions 27:20 The one result he'll never get over - 4-3 v Spurs, Jota's 96th minute winner 28:13 Harry becomes a Good Companion --- 🎙 ABOUT HARRY DAVIES Harry Davies is a 21-year-old mechanical engineering student and musician from Liverpool. A lifelong Liverpool fan, he has adopted Bath City as his grassroots team while at university and writes and plays his own music in his spare time. 🔗 LINKS OSS Security: osssecurity.com Football for Breakfast newsletter: footballforbreakfastpod.com/newsletter --- 🎧 Search Football for Breakfast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Football for Breakfast is a production by The Good Companions, presented by OSS Security. New episode every Tuesday morning. #FootballForBreakfast #HarryDavies #LiverpoolFC #Istanbul2005 #Oasis #YouWillNeverWalkAlone #FootballPodcast #FootballCulture #BathCity #GoodCompanions #MerseyMusic