From Hard Times to the big game for Whitley Bay

May 10 2009 by Steve Brown, Sunday Sun

LET your feet do the talking, his team-mate told him. That’s what you’re best at Mooresy. Cut the cliches, Chris.

But they underestimated him, him and his liking for Dickens.

When the text message request for an exclusive interview with Whitley Bay wonder Chris Moore was lodged, he was busy, enthralled even, watching Barcelona dismantle Real Madrid.

Earlier he had been captivated by Liverpool’s 4-4 draws with Chelsea, then Arsenal.

All inspired him, whetting the appetite before his own BIG game, this afternoon at Wembley. The chance to be talked about, the centre of attention.

Here is someone who had been at Newcastle United, then Darlington, yet not quite made it. And look where they are now. Look where he is. They underestimated him, again.

So he appreciates today’s opportunity in the FA Vase final against Glossop North End, and means to grasp it.

A Charles Dickens fan, he has come through hard times and, now, boasts great expectations for Sunday’s tale of two, er, towns.

“We had a game a couple of weeks ago and the night before was the Liverpool-Arsenal game, 4-4, and it just makes you want to play,” he said.

“It was the same last week watching Barcelona against Real Madrid and you think ‘I can’t wait to get to Wembley now and play in our own big game’.

“You’ve got to make the most of it because you know next week it’s going to be over. There’s no guarantee you’ll get another chance in the next few years, if ever, to experience an occasion like this.