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A NEW form of entertainment – and, in the view of our sister paper, the Evening Times, “practically a new way of life for many Glasgow people” – arrived in the summer of 1963. The city was about to experience the joys of ten-pin bowling, with the opening of the £400,000, 32-lane Brunswick Hampden Bowl, at Mount Florida. “Scots people are too keen just to go and watch sport,” said the centre’s manager, Mitch Currie. “Ten-pin bowling is the answer to this, because it is a sport that everyone can play.” Brunswick’s advisory star bowler, Bob Guy, a former porter at London’s Smithfield market, was impressed by the large number of Glaswegians who had been receiving training over the last few days.
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.”