Hugh Macdonald On Happy Days for the Football Punter

The Herald (22 January 2005)

Author: Hugh Macdonald

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IT'S the conversation a father dreads. Its very inevitability cannot diminish its potential for inducing angst. The son stumbles through the door, a light sweat upon his upper lip. His heart races but his shoulders are slumped.

He approaches his father and invokes the Korean curse that has chilled generations of Scotsmen.

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Hugh Macdonald On Happy Days for the Football Punter

"Wan Did Me, Dad, " the youngster croaks in capital letters but hardly capital form.

The father grasps the situation immediately. "Ah, the curse of five homes has struck the fruit of my loins. The light of my life ha...

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