Touching the Heights
Personal Portraits of Scottish Sporting Greats
Published on 30. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-80425-018-1 (ISBN)
Description
They all excited and inspired me by how they fought their corners [...] So I want to place them all round a fantasy dinner-table, not just to dine, but to relive how I saw them in action and how much they had in common.
Who would be on your dream dinner party guest list? Over his 50 years in broadcasting, Archie Macpherson has seen many sports personalities come and go; in Touching the Heights he collects the 13 who have inspired him most around his fantasy dinner table. Some are well-known, others less so, but all shaped both their sport and those, like Macpherson, who watched their careers unfold.
Tommy Docherty ? Jackie Paterson ? Jim Baxter Eric Brown ? Jimmy Johnstone ? Sandra Whittaker Dr Richard Budgett ? Ally MacLeod ? Jock Stein ? Sir Alex Ferguson ? Bill McLaren ? Jim MacLean ? Graeme Souness
From football to golf, boxing to athletics, Touching the Heights celebrates the breadth of Scottish sporting achievement. Whether telling the tale of a boy who acquired new shoes by stealing them from the local baths, or that of a distinguished medical scientist at the centre of sporting transgender debates, one thing unites them all: Without them life would have been much poorer.
Who would be on your dream dinner party guest list? Over his 50 years in broadcasting, Archie Macpherson has seen many sports personalities come and go; in Touching the Heights he collects the 13 who have inspired him most around his fantasy dinner table. Some are well-known, others less so, but all shaped both their sport and those, like Macpherson, who watched their careers unfold.
Tommy Docherty ? Jackie Paterson ? Jim Baxter Eric Brown ? Jimmy Johnstone ? Sandra Whittaker Dr Richard Budgett ? Ally MacLeod ? Jock Stein ? Sir Alex Ferguson ? Bill McLaren ? Jim MacLean ? Graeme Souness
From football to golf, boxing to athletics, Touching the Heights celebrates the breadth of Scottish sporting achievement. Whether telling the tale of a boy who acquired new shoes by stealing them from the local baths, or that of a distinguished medical scientist at the centre of sporting transgender debates, one thing unites them all: Without them life would have been much poorer.
Reviews / Votes
From football to golf, boxing to athletics, Touching the Heights celebrates the breadth of Scottish sporting achievement. ANN FOTHERINGHAM, Glasgow TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80425-018-1 (9781804250181)
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E-Book
10/2022
Luath Press
€14.39
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Person
ARCHIE MACPHERSON was born and raised in Shettleston in the east-end of Glasgow. He was headteacher of Swinton School, Lanarkshire, before he began his broadcasting career at the BBC in 1969. It was here that he became the principal commentator and presenter on Sportscene. He has since worked with STV, Eurosport, Talksport, Radio Clyde and Setanta. In 2005 he received a Scottish BAFTA for special contribution to Scottish broadcasting and was inducted into Scottish football's Hall of Fame in 2017.