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Billy Bremner is carried shoulder high after victory against the Czechs

Kevin McCarra, Chief Football Writer, The Guardian

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How can a match where you can barely see the action, in which the identity of the goalscorer is shrouded in mystery and your life is at risk with every surge of the Hampden crowd be the one that lives longest in the memory? Kevin McCarra explains…

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George Best: the genius in flight

Ewing Grahame, Freelance Sports Journalist

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Ewing Grahame remembers the errant genius of George Best and wonders why he once turned down the chance to meet his hero…

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Steve Donn, Sports Writer, Scottish Daily Mail

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Ally McCoist finally meets his match when one-on-one with a mysterious goalkeeper at Hampden. Well, that’s how Steve Donn remembers it…

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David Friel, Freelance Sports Journalist

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Strachan. McGrain. Friel. Goal. It is the greatest commentary Arthur Montford never gave…

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The King and I: Sullivan and Dalglish reflect on victory

Stephen Sullivan, FIFA Journalist

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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…

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Clontarf 2011. Greig junior and senior (centre left and right)

Martin Greig, Freelance Sports Writer

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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…

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lisa gray with diego maradona

Lisa Gray, sports journalist, Press Association

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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…

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denis law shares alan campbell's dread at chances missed against zaire

Alan Campbell, Freelance Sports Journalist

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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…

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scotland fans are impressed during a scouting mission at Espana 82 (copyright: The Herald)

Graham Hunter, Sky Sports

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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…

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Douglas Alexander, chief sports writer, Sunday Times Scotland

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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…

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