ONE of the most uplifting stories the year came from the world of men’s football, often a conduit for fear and loathing. The Gala Fairydean striker, Zander Murray became Scotland’s first senior footballer to announce that he was gay.
The story took me back more than 20 years to another time on another newspaper, Scotland on Sunday. I was then in charge of a group of young and talented writers who were keen to break the hitherto tired and predictable mould of Scottish football writing.
