Small, thin and scrawny, with a terrible squint that forced him to wear glasses, there was little to suggest Denis Law "would make it as a footballer".

The story of Denis Law’s life is a tale of the pauper who became ‘The King’. The Manchester United and Scotland great, who has died aged 84, was the youngest of seven children when he was ...

The story of Denis Law's life is a tale of the pauper who became 'The King'. The Manchester United and Scotland great, who ...

The squint required a corrective operation in Aberdeen, where Law grew up, the seventh child of a North Sea fisherman. It was a hard childhood — Law did not own a pair of shoes until he was 14.

Denis Law was one of the greatest British footballers of all-time, arguably Scotland’s finest ever player, and a man whose very name conjured notions of skill, flair and toughness. Born during ...

On "windswept touchlines" in Aberdeen in the 1950s, people began to talk with excitement about a "puny, bespectacled kid with a squint who was somehow ramming home goals for his school and boys ...

The story of Denis Law's life is a tale of the pauper who became 'The King'. The Manchester United and Scotland great, who has died aged 84, was the youngest of seven children when he was born in ...

The story of Denis Law’s life is a tale of the pauper who became “The King”. The Manchester United and Scotland great, who has died aged 84 , was the youngest of seven children when he was ...

Small, thin and scrawny, with a terrible squint that forced him to wear glasses, there was little to suggest Denis Law "would make it as a footballer".