My Sporting Hero – Details, episodes & analysis

How elegance, fierce competitiveness and Swiss swagger struck a chord with a starry-eyed Canadian kid.

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This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox.

You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris, and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

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From watching your idol from the Easter Road terracing to playing alongside him… how one Hibs legend helped create another.

This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox.

You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris, and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

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The former Aberdeen and Celtic midfielder selects one all-time great from either side of the Old Firm

This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox.

You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris, and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

These digital dispatches will come to you via the brilliant publishing platform Substack. Just pop in your email. No apps. No faff.

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'He was just cool.' The Partick Thistle legend grew up adoring the original King of Celtic Park - the haircut, the goals and the joy

This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox.

You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris, and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

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Midfield maestro explains how she followed Liverpool legend’s triumphs and heartbreaks

This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox.

You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris, and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

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Ayr United manager reflects on missing out on seeing his idol and playing with Scots golf stars.

This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox.

You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris, and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

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As the future Scotland manager watched the three-time Open champion on television, he felt a share of the joy that Ballesteros beamed out to the world

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You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating rummages into football finance with Sporting Intelligence’s Nick Harris and Daniel Gray’s Slow Match Report.

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Hello Nutmeg listener,

Starting next week, Monday, August 5, we are launching a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox: original thinking and high-quality audio at least twice a week.

On this feed, you’ll hear a new weekly show called My Sporting Hero – footballers telling you all about an athlete who inspired them.

That starts on Wednesday, with Craig Levein talking about Seve Ballesteros – and there’ll be a new one every Wednesday.

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New storytelling for the new season. We hope you like the sound of that. 

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In this War of the Roses special, Dundee United’s ex-Motherwell Lancastrian Liam Grimshaw joins Yorkshireman and Nutmeg magazine editor Daniel Gray for a conversational meander from his youth days at Manchester United to Tannadice times now. On the way, there is talk of Liam’s writing career, cricket, Scotland’s best chippies, a Burnley delicacy, his Cappielow admiration and what these two Englishmen love about Scottish football. 

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In this honest and emotional conversation, two footballers – Andy Munro and Kerr Fraser – and one manager – Greig McDonald – discuss mental health struggles within football, and how the game deals with them. They are joined by Libby Emmerson from the Back Onside charity and Saumya Khullar from Oriam, Scotland’s Sports Performance Centre. Together, they run a programme for footballers facing mental health struggles around long-term physical injuries.

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