Posts by Gordon Blackler
David Friel, Freelance Sports Journalist
Strachan. McGrain. Friel. Goal. It is the greatest commentary Arthur Montford never gave…
Read MoreStephen Sullivan, FIFA Journalist
From writing about the Celtic youth team to crossing for Kenny Dalglish to head home, all in the space of a week? It can be done. Just ask Stephen Sullivan…
Read MoreMartin Greig, Freelance Sports Writer
Doesn’t everyone’s dad play fives at the age of 66, not only keeping up with but taking the names of men half his age? Martin Greig is starting to suspect the old boy could be a bit special…
Read MoreLisa Gray, sports journalist, Press Association
Even battle-hardened football journalists are transformed into autograph-hunting fans in the presence of greatness, and a scrawled signature on a shorthand notebook by Diego Maradona is proof of it…
Read MoreAlan Campbell, Freelance Sports Journalist
A 20-year-old Scot sits with his head in his hands and the foreknowledge that beating Zaire by only two goals will not be enough at the 1974 World Cup. But it is the three-month trans-continental hitch-hiking adventure that got him there that remains with Alan Campbell…
Read MoreGraham Hunter, Sky Sports
A young Graham Hunter takes on the world at Spain ’82. Like a footballing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, except with slightly more debauchery…
Read MoreDouglas Alexander, chief sports writer, Sunday Times Scotland
The summer of 1982. Great football teams compete for the World Cup, and one 11-year-old experiences a state of footballing nirvana he will spend a lifetime in search of, all the while wearing his lucky Naranjito belt…
Read MoreRichard Wilson
A trial match for Glasgow and District terrifies Richard Wilson, who would rather be at home, watching the game with his dad…
Read MoreMark Wilson
For Mark Wilson, the pain of following Scotland has its roots in the summer of 1982, when he learned that sometimes your father really does know best…
Read MoreTeddy Jamieson
Teddy Jamieson recalls an unlikely hero in Northern Ireland. Teddy is the author of Whose Side Are You On: Sport, the Troubles and Me…
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