A twinkle-toed striker has been named footballer of the year at the age of 82.
Great-grandfather Bob Blaikie won the award for his inspired performances with Loanhead walking football team.
Running is banned in the pedestrian version of the game, which is part of Midlothian's Ageing Well initiative.
Mr BlaikIe, who is the oldest player in the team, said: "The ball rolls away from you quite a lot and sometimes you miss it completely.
"But you wouldn't believe how many people have dropped out due to injuries - players younger than me."
The father-of-three, who has eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, started playing in March.
The squad of 12 splits up and plays against each other and occasionally takes on another walking team from Penicuik.
Midlothian Council leisure chiefs came up with the idea to encourage elderly and injured players to get back on the pitch, and Bob never misses a match.
He said: "It's just a bit of camaraderie, a bit of fun."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article