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Street Football is alive and kicking

Friday's Local Hero: Willie McNab was just 13 when he saw his older friends vandalise cars and start fires. He watched them take refuge in the local park, passing round a bottle and drowning their vitality, and wondered why. All he wanted to do was kick a football.

Willie McNab was just 13 when he saw his older friends vandalise cars and start fires. He watched them take refuge in the local park, passing round a bottle and drowning their vitality, and wondered why. All he wanted to do was kick a football.