According to the Royal Mail there are only six Ball Streets in the UK, all in North West England.
We didn’t live on one of those but, even though we all come from opposite ends of the country, we grew up on a ball street: a terraced arena, in footballing heartlands like Glasgow, Manchester, Luton and, er, Wakefield. Playing the game in its simplest form, where the kerb completed more passes than Iniesta.
That’s where the name Ball Street name from, but behind it lies something much bigger.