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Why Fred Goodwin is the Ally McLeod of our time

Yer pal's yer pal.

I was at school with Fred Goodwin. We even went to university together and, indeed, as the first of my friends to have a car, he used to drive me in from Paisley on the days when I hadn't been up all night fighting against the outrageous Tory policies of the Callaghan Government.