Club Career
Born and raised in Muirhouse, Edinburgh, he supported Hibernian as a boy. His father, Jim, worked as a scaffolder, and his mother, Catherine, worked at a whiskey distillery. At age 15 he damaged his vision playing football on the school playground when a pen in his pocket became lodged in his right eye; the pen came within "a thousandth of an inch" of permanently costing him the vision in his eye. He was offered a contract by Hibernian manager Eddie Turnbull, but his father decided against the offer after stating the club did not pay sufficient expenses for footwear.
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