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The National (Scotland)
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Stephen McGowan

I can't get excited by Rangers vs Celtic after encounter with my own mortality

Hugh Keevins had a recent near-death experience with illness. (Image: Robert Perry)

There was a time when Hugh Keevins would have approached two games in a week between Celtic and Rangers like a meerkat scanning the horizon for the next juicy headline.

A serious health scare changed all of that. The voice of Radio Clyde’s Superscoreboard for the last 41 years, a duodenal ulcer followed the narrowing of an artery to the brain in July and triggered a change of outlook and perspective. His lucky escape served as a reminder that football is merely the most important of the unimportant things in life.

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