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Denis Law: Manchester United hero rose from humble beginnings to become a world great
Manchester United hero Denis Law is Aberdeens greatest football export.
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It’s hard now to describe the wondrous sense of merriment I experienced as a child when watching Denis Law unveil his bag of tricks on rival defenders who mistook him for a skelf only to discover he was as fragile as an elk.
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‘For the first time in my life, I had confidence’
The words testified to the fashion in which the skinny wee lad from 6 Printfield Terrace in Woodside shrugged aside such issues as growing up with a squint and being branded “Cockeye” by the other children when he took part in school games.
Eventually, years later, the problem was rectified and Law described it as something which “completely changed things”.
“Suddenly, I could look people straight in the eye,” he said.
With typical self-deprecating candour, he added: “I knew that I wasn’t the best-looking man on the block, I knew I had too big a nose and all the rest, but it didn’t make any difference to me. Because, for the first time in my life, I had confidence.”
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Acquisition from the Pepkor Speciality division gets Competition Tribunal approval. 00:01
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New owner agrees to use its âbest effortsâ to stock the struggling chain of menswear stores with labels from local manufacturers. Image: Supplied
Johannesburg-based independent specialist retail group Blue Falcon 188 Trading, which owns the popular Studio 88 chain of stores, has secured approval from competition authorities to acquire the struggling John Craig menswear chain from JSE-listed Pepkor.
The Competition Tribunal announced the approval of the transaction on Thursday, saying that the deal will see 422 jobs being saved within the John Craig business.
John Craig is a 73-year-old chain, which has been wholly owned by Pepkor since 2006. It fell under the Pepkor Speciality division in recent years, but late last year Pepkor announced plans to sell the chain amid waning formal menswear sales.