The winning penalty hit the back of the net and it was chaos.
With nine men - eight at one point - Inverness Caley Thistle had somehow managed to see off Arbroath to clinch a place in the Premiership play-off final. Players and staff were celebrating wildly on the Gayfield pitch. Kirk Broadfoot was half naked. But when the camera pans to the away dug-out, Billy Dodds sits motionless.
He’s got a tight grip of assistant Barry Wilson beside him. And through the darkness, you can see the emotion written all over his face. The embrace only lasts a few seconds. But it was a special moment for Dodds. In a 30-year playing career, he’d never felt anything like that. This wasn’t just about winning a football match. It meant more than that. While there was carnage around him, he quietly thought about family, about life, about defying the odds.
