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McNovogate highlights the need for 10-point test of true Scottishness

Been head-hunted by the SFA. They are to use my nose as a recreation of the Easter Road slope in the Scottish Football Museum. My ears are the very model, of course, for the Homecoming Cup. This has caused some confusion. At my first cup final in 1969, Billy McNeill, possibly perturbed by elation, picked me out by my ears from the schoolboys' enclosure and brandished me in front of a delirious Celtic end. He was probably also misled by the fact that I was wearing green and white ribbons. Mummy always wanted a girl.

Been head-hunted by the SFA. They are to use my nose as a recreation of the Easter Road slope in the Scottish Football Museum. My ears are the very model, of course, for the Homecoming Cup. This has caused some confusion.