By Alison Rowat Senior politics and features writer
Election Scotland 2021: Leaders Debate CARDS on the table time. My exposure to Match of the Day is catching the last two minutes of the Sunday morning repeat while waiting for Marr to start at 9am (it’s a rock-and-roll lifestyle, to be sure). Even so, I’ve seen enough to know that Ian Wright is the best thing on it. Warm, funny, informed and informative, “Wrighty”, like Lineker, was a footballer who turned out to be a TV natural. It is a very different man on show in Ian Wright: Home Truths (BBC1, Thursday, 9pm). “You might know me best as a footballer,” says the presenter by way of an introduction. Over the course of the next hour, Wright relates what it was like to grow up in a violent home and how the experience continues to affect his life.
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What’s your earliest memory? On my first day at preschool I sobbed my heart out. A taxi picked me up at the end of our road. Another four-year-old, Simon Cussons, was already on board. Simon remained a friend for the rest of his life. Who are your heroes? As a child I was a junior member of Lancashire County Cricket Club and my hero was fast bowler Brian Statham. My adult hero is my late wife, Alex, who always got a buzz from helping others. What book last changed your thinking? It has to be
The Nordstrom Way by Robert Spector and Patrick D McCarthy, about a US department store chain. The management chart is upside down: that told me how to run our business.
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