"Everything can seem so clear-cut about the history of the Revolution until you get on the ground, at which point everything gets muddier," he writes.
He was a boyhood Everton fan and on Sunday, a mile away from the ground at which he had been revered, Anfield joined in the remembrance.
If Kingsmead is a ground at which South Africa appear habitually to lose, then Newlands is the stronghold where, since readmission, they have won 19 of 28 matches.
Goals will be likely at White Hart Lane, a ground at which Spurs have both scored and conceded in each of their 9 matches against top flight opposition this calendar year (their last 3 games producing a whopping 16 goals).
Neither would have been filled, but 10,000 people rattling around inside the 52,000-capacity Hampden – a ground at which acoustics are not great even when full – is a worrying prospect.
As has so often been the case during the course of his career, Gerrard took some time yester-day to make an impact on Old Trafford, a ground at which he had not scored on 15 occasions.
"For the duration of the suspension, which is effective from 19 April 2016, he must not attend any ground at which Frome are playing on a matchday at any level," said the FA in a statement.
No doubt the England fans singing were in their own minds "taking" Celtic Park, offering a semi-banterous slapdown-in-song to the usual inhabitants of a ground at which the quietly decomposing cadaver of the IRA is often winched up out of its casket and marched around the place in song.
When he went to the crease at North Marine Road, a ground at which he has a proven record, Gale knew something had changed.
