30 September 2023
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Word had already reached Alex Ferguson about a dissentiant talent who had been tearing it up in the French top flight. At an evening match
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28 September 2023
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Convention and Orthodoxy were not routes taken by Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona. Even from outset, as all geniuses do, he walked the tightrope and frequently
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The Football Conversations Episode 5 – Michael Grant – Aberdeen under Sir Alex Ferguson
24 November 2024
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The natives of Aberdeen are no strangers to adverse weather conditions. Gale force winds in spring? No problem. Rain of biblical proportions in summer? Likewise. In 1978 however, a tornado struck The Granite City with such force its impact reverberated throughout the whole of Scottish football for the best part of a decade. Nothing could’ve prepared them for it and for better and worse, things would never be the same again. Billy McNeill spent a solitary season managing Aberdeen before he upped sticks and headed back south to Glasgow to replace the legendary Jock Stein. McNeill’s hero status with Celtic,