When Saturday Comes

A UK football awayday proves nostalgic (for me) and novel (for her)

Somewhere on my bookshelf back home in the States sits a copy of Stuart Maconie’s Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North. It’s not necessarily a masterpiece but it’s an enjoyable, brisk and affectionate travelogue through England’s northern counties, and years down the line from reading it, I clearly remember how the former music journalist and esta…