Sam Kelly is Voiceoffootball's Argentine football expert who also happens to be a Manchester United fan, but what is it that makes our Sam love the football of one of England’s greatest ever rivals (hint, it involves a woman), and where does Boundary Park fit into his footballing life story?

We’ve got the questions, Sam’s got the answers, and you’ve got the chance to read both...

Name: Sam Kelly

Occupation: Temping in hospital administration (working out where to go next after graduating) and Voiceoffootball columnist.

In between this and travelling, I'm also webmaster of what I hope will become the internet's best English-language Argentine football site - and no, there's not much competition to improve on - Hasta Lo Gol Siempre.

First football match you saw: The first match I attended was Bristol City vs. Ipswich Town. I think I was ten so it would have been 1994, and my dad (who doesn't have any real interest in football, and is in any case an Oldham Athletic fan) decided I should go to a match. The only thing I remember about it is the amount of swearing from a man sitting a few rows behind!

Talk us through why you’re so passionate about Argentine football: It's played in a wonderful country, for starters, with fabulous scenery, great people and unbelievable steak. The league, meanwhile, is full of technique, good passing, noisy (and not always dangerous!) stadia and young local players are given a chance, whatever the team. Players graduate from this league to go on and play in some of the world's best competitions.

So, Argentine football is everything the Premiership isn't, one might say! Throw in teams with cool shirts (River's red sash, Boca's colours) and funny names or badges (Colón, Newell's Old Boys, whose badge reads simply 'NOB'), and what's not to love? Oh, but one safety tip: friendly though your welcome in the country will be - Argentines don't hate English people anything like as much as we (or they) think - don't start talking English in the stadium. Most will be fine, but in a crowd you never know where the closest nutter is.

So how does that fit in with being a fan of Manchester United? Well... even Gabriel Heinze only played six matches for Newell's before leaving for Europe - he was totally unheard of in his native land until we signed him - so it doesn't, really! But for four-and-a-half years until recently I had an Argentine girlfriend, during which time I've become a huge fan of her country and most of what's in it.

It was difficult to enjoy at first, but I've now got used to the slower, less physical and more aesthetic game, and realised that Latin American football is, like much of the best food, an acquired taste. Having said that there is a connection; both United and River Plate (my ex girlfriend's team, and therefore my Argentine side) have reputations for cavalier, attacking football, a record of producing important players for their respective countries' national sides, and a vitriolic hatred of a team playing in blue. They've also both managed, somehow, to be crowned champions of their continent 'only' twice...

What do you like best about writing for Voiceoffootball? Putting to rights the fact that Argentina, uniquely among the world's big football nations, gets comparatively little mention in the British press outside World Soccer. Oh, and the inflated sense of self-importance and the looks on people's faces when I tell them I'm a football writer.

If you could change one thing in football what would it be? I had the chance, actually. Whilst at Uni I worked as stadium security at Old Trafford. I was sitting on the touchline when Porto put us out of the European Cup in 2004, and Mourinho came very close to tripping over me on his famous sprint. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I could have reached out an arm and upended him. 64,000 people would have had a good laugh, he'd have lost all the respect of his players, and of course this would have resulted in his never winning the competition, never moving on to Chelsea, and never boring us all into submission with his interminable brand of anti-football. So, football lovers of the world, for an opportunity missed, I apologise.

Any funny footballing anecdotes to share with your fans: Sadly I'm utterly useless at playing, and have never been in a proper team, so no, sorry. The best I can muster is watching a PE teacher fall flat on his face after being kicked in the shins by a classmate of mine during a football lesson in secondary school. It's not very good, is it? Perhaps you had to be there...

Favourite football quote: From the great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano's Football In Sun And Shadow (dreadfully translated into American, but you should read it all the same): "I've finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football. I go about the world, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it."

Most mischievous transfer rumour you’ve ever heard: Fulham to replace the aged, retiring John Collins with the promising young Collins John - and it happened!

Who do you have the greatest admiration for in football? Garrincha is a player I wish we heard more about, without whom Pelé would never have won three World Cups (Pelé himself said that). And ex-Argentina boss Cesar Luis Menotti, one of the great advocates of entertaining, attacking football, whose reputation will be tarnished forever by the fact that the military dictatorship he lived under insisted on trying to fix the 1978 World Cup in his side's favour, when there may well have been no need...

Sum up your love of the beautiful game: Being able to appreciate Arsenal playing, even though I'm a United fan; finding a 20-second video I've not previously seen of Garrincha or Puskas humiliating a defender; almost any goal scored by Ronaldinho; watching Paul Scholes or Román Riquelme cut out four defenders at once with a pass. All these are great, but being at Boundary Park a few years ago when Oldham managed a 94th minute equaliser on the last day against the division champions to avoid relegation was just as incredible.