Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford: An Adventure Through Scottish Football

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The submariner arm of Ally's Tartan Army. When Dixie Deans met Bob Marley. Jimmy Johnstone's boating trip. Alex Miller, ice cream vendor. Willie Carr's amazing, death-defying donkey-kick. What happened to Bon Accord after the world-record 36-0. The Famous Five from Easter Road who won Brazil the World Cup. Jim Leishman's poetry. And of course, Arthur Montford, resplendent in his sports jacket - the face of STV's Scotsport for 32 years. In Bring Me the Sport Jacket of Arthur Montford, Aidan Smith takes a nostalgic, hilarious and heart-warming look back through the history of Scottish football in 51 glorious - and inglorious -moments, celebrating all that is wonderful, quirky and often downright odd about Scotland's national game. It contains memories to make you wince, shudder and laugh out loud - 51 vignettes that encapsulate everything we love about football north of the border (and just over it, thanks to our dear English neighbours, Berwick Rangers).

Aidan Smith is the author of three previous books: Persevered, Heartfelt and Union Jock. He is a journalist with The Scotsman and a seven-times winner in the Scottish Press Awards.

'This survey of the strange, the sublime and the arcane in Scottish football history is funny, irreverent and vibrantly written' -- Malcolm Jack * The Scotsman * 'a terrific new book ... Aidan Smith looks back at football's magnificent 1970s' -- Neil Drysdale * Press and Journal * 'Those who have enjoyed Aidan Smith's Saturday interviews in the Scotsman will know he has a rare talent for drawing something more substantial than the usual anodyne guff from his subjects... the tone is playful, and Smith's wit is to the fore' * Scotland on Sunday, Sports Books of the Year, 2022 *