JAMES NALTON argues that Curtis Jones’s departure leaves Liverpool facing a stark local void as the club’s roots are increasingly swallowed by football’s globalised model
‘Once you turn pro, it’s not a sport any more. It’s a living’
JOHN WIGHT writes on the life and illustrious career of Dick McTaggart – perhaps the most underappreciated boxer in history
Lightweight boxer Dick McTaggart who won 'Lightweight' gold at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, November 30, 1956
As antisemitism spread across Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, Benny Leonard and Jack ‘Kid’ Berg became symbols of hope and resilience, writes JOHN WIGHT
DICK McTAGGART was the finest and most successful amateur Scotland ever produced, and also perhaps the most underappreciated boxer in the history of the sport, north of the border.
A child of poverty and product of Dundee, he was born in 1935 at a time when Scotland and Britain’s working class were experiencing the tender delights of Tory-imposed austerity.
Purified by economic pain, the McTaggart family, like every other family, was forced to learn the art of survival.
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