The late great Bill Shankly of Liverpool Football Club had a lot of classic sayings and one the best of them was, ‘Football is not a matter of life or death, it is more important than that’. There are some fanciers who live their pigeon keeping-life working from a variation of that mantra. They have an unbreakable commitment to the work that they have to do to constantly achieve the results that they want to achieve. I had the pleasure of spending a few hours with Nigel Easton trying to get an insight into how he works and what is the driving force that motivates him….
