Maxliu

Max learned the meaning of the word "longing" at the bottom of a sloping football pitch at the bottom of a sloping county (Cornwall) at the bottom of a sloping country before going on to take his goalkeeper's revenge as editor of Cornwall's no.1 Blackburn Rovers fanzine.

But he's not a Blackburn fan and is in fact more Man United than Gary Neville's cat. He has interviewed everyone Joseph Heller to Peter Shilton and worked as a news reporter, books and music critic. His heroes are Marcel Proust and Alex Ferguson. He thinks they would have got on.

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