A Merseyside goalkeeper has thanked his football team for “changing” his life.
Ian Delaney, a 29-year-old from St Helens, fell into Merseyside’s LGBTQ+ inclusive football team, Mersey Marauders by a “brilliant accident”. The physics teacher had just gone through a breakup and felt as if he had no friends who could relate to the LGBTQ+ experience.
Wanting to put himself out there after a low period in his life, the former University of Liverpool student got back into a sport he loved playing growing up.
