Journalists
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…
Read MoreEwing Grahame remembers the errant genius of George Best and wonders why he once turned down the chance to meet his hero…
Read MoreEven 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 MoreA 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 MoreA 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 MoreThe 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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