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' club ...

On Tuesday, paying tribute at the funeral packed with 750 guests, legendary ex-United boss Sir Alex Ferguson said: "He would fight his granny for a goal. He had so much courage. A skinny guy standing ...