Dundee United director Jimmy Fyffe’s twin passions will be competing for his attention next week, when he has his first runner in the Randox Grand National the same afternoon his Scottish Premiership football team have a crucial match in their fight to stay up.
While his football club, who are bottom of the division, head to Motherwell, pub owner Fyffe, 54, will be in Liverpool where Hill Sixteen is due to line up in the world’s most famous horse race on April 15, a date he cannot miss.
“This is my first runner in the Grand National and I’ve always had an ambition of having a runner in the race - it’s been very difficult getting here,” he said.
