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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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Richard Wilson

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A trial match for Glasgow and District terrifies Richard Wilson, who would rather be at home, watching the game with his dad…

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Mark Wilson

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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…

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Teddy Jamieson

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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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Dave Hannigan

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A father give his son this sporting life…

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Paul Hughes

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Paul Hughes’ dad was not slow to point out his son’s shortcomings as a footballer. But The Sun’s football writer has his old man to thank for turning him onto a career in journalism instead…

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