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Toshack’s Way: My journey through football by John Toshack

385 Toshack

DeCoubertin Books, £20
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 385, April 2019
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Brian Flynn: Little wonder by Leon Barton

378 Flynn

St David’s Press, £13.99
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 378, September 2018
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Scotland need to turn to Wales for inspiration

Gordon Strachan’s team were left out over summer and must make it to Russia 2018

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National mourning

wsc299 Huw Richards pays tribute to Gary Speed after his death

Even discounting for the inevitable reaction when someone dies young and suddenly, there was something different and genuine about the tributes to Gary Speed. Along with shock and disbelief was simple bafflement. Why? Maybe the inquest, which reopens on January 30, will provide some answers. His case appears to differ from other sportsmen’s self-inflicted deaths.

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Super Tramp

My Autobiography
by John Robertson
Mainstream, £17.99
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis
From WSC 298 December 2011

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In his preface to WH Davies's The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, first published in 1908, George Bernard Shaw revealed that he did not know whether to describe its Welsh subject as "a lucky man or an unlucky one". A century later this autobiography by the self-styled "chubby little lad from Uddingston" insists that luck played a major role in his sporting career, albeit luck offset by life-changing misfortunes in his personal life – his first daughter was born with cerebral palsy and died at a young age, and his elder brother was killed in a car crash in 1979.

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