We’ll start as the feisty Glaswegian leaves his teenage years and turns 20, with the 1960s just beginning to swing and the striker plying his trade part-time, though in the Scottish top flight, 50 miles from home.
20 - MAKING HIS WAY IN THE GAME
Player, St Johnstone – 31 December 1961
Seduced by the carrot of first-team football, the switch from Queen’s Park to First Division club St Johnstone is proving problematic for the combative young striker, not least the punishing journey to Perth for training. Leaving his apprentice tool-maker’s job at Remington Rand’s Glasgow factory at 4pm, he returns at 1am, rising again for work at 6am.