EDDIE MAY speaks with such enthusiasm about the merits of pursuing a football career through a university scholarship that you almost expect him to hand out a prospectus and a trial with his Stirling University team.
EDDIE MAY speaks with such enthusiasm about the merits of pursuing a football career through a university scholarship that you almost expect him to hand out a prospectus and a trial with his Stirling University team.
Eddie May's Stirling University side will face a tough test against Bonnyrigg Rose
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"We are having to turn people away," he says, shattering the dream.
He is sitting in a small conference room in the campus' sports centre but gives a passable impersonation of a seasoned lecturer as he outlines the merits of chasing an education as well as a football; the 45-year-old having last month taken charge of Stirling's football team, whose scholarship programme is run in partnership with his former club Falkirk. All that is missing was a lectern and a foreword in a well-thumbed textbook.
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