Stuart Cosgrove

IN 1962, Cassius Clay and his teenage brother Rudy drove north to Detroit for a Nation of Islam rally in the Motor City. They did not travel with the full blessing of their parents. Their mother sang in the choir of her gospel church and could not imagine a road that led away from Christianity and their father, more relaxed about religion, had imagined a future where his sons would follow in his footsteps. He was a sign writer and when not painting murals and scoping out shop signs, he was drink

As a school kid at St Johns Primary School in Perth, I was completely in love with PE – for me, that was what was going to school was all about and the lessons just got in the way. In Primary 7, I played for the school football team – I was an inside forward and we often won the league but a couple of our rival teams had some very strong goalkeepers including Jim Blyth who went on to be capped for Scotland numerous times and went to the Argentina World Cup in 1978.