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This book takes the reader on the journey with a fanatical Ayr
United supporter, detailing his fascination with football from the
day of his birth right up to the conclusion of the 2011/12 Scottish
football season. The story offers something different from the
usual football yarns, as it provides an insight into the thoughts
of a provincial club supporter from four different perspectives.
"One Honest Man, Four Different Perspectives" takes the reader on
the journey with a fanatical Ayr United supporter, detailing his
fascination with football from the day of his birth right up to the
conclusion of the 2011/12 Scottish football season. The story
encapsulates the full range of emotions of a young boy and his
football obsession, his dream to become a top player and the
roller-coaster of emotions he experiences through his life as a
supporter, a coach and a referee. He becomes hooked on Ayr United
in 1967, as a twelve -year-old on his first visit to a league match
at the hallowed ground that is Somerset Park, Ayr, and embarks on a
dramatic and emotional 45 year journey that comes to a climax as
the now fifty seven-year-old in 2012, surrounded by his family,
friends and tribal colleagues at Hampden Park in Glasgow, the
national stadium, witnesses the latest attempt at glory and a new
chapter in the history of the Honest Men. The story offers
something different from the usual football yarns, biographies and
statistical accounts. It provides an insight into the thoughts of a
provincial club supporter from four different perspectives, with
his passion for football and the contrast of bitter disappointment
and laugh out loud humour evident throughout in the numerous
anecdotes taken from each of the different angles of a diehard
follower of Ayr United, a football player in school, youth, amateur
and pub football, a coach, manager and chairman in grass roots
football and as a qualified referee in amateur and youth football.
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