My Sporting Hero

'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

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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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.

All you have to do to receive all of this brand new Nutmeg content directly to your email inbox is to click on the below link.

That will take you to Substack – enter your email address in the box and that’s it. Job done. You’re on the team.

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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Best known for his starring role in Taggart, the actor Colin McCredie is a diehard St Johnstone supporter. Here, he discusses Saints’ astounding cup winning season with Nutmeg editor Daniel Gray. Before that, Colin tells us of life as one of the 25th Perthshire Cubs’ star players, flying coins behind the Muirton Park goal and a rammy between John Lambie and Denzil from Only Fools and Horses. Escapism as good as any drama.

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From Joy Division to the delight of a crisp one-two, here is part two of our engrossing chat with the Rangers WFC midfielder, Tessel Middag.

This time, Tessel talks us through her transfer to Manchester City and then swapping Corrie for Eastenders with a move to West Ham United. There is World Cup jubilation and ACL devastation (twice), a discussion of the need for trade unions in football and a fascinating account of Tuscan life in lockdown following Tessel’s move to Fiorentina. Plus, first steps in punditry and reasons for joining the delightful world of Scottish football with Rangers. 

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Rangers WFC midfielder Tessel Middag began her career with Den Haag, then played for her childhood heroes Ajax, before moving on to Manchester City, West Ham United and Fiorentina, representing the Netherlands national team 44 times along the way. 

In the first half of this fascinating, entertaining chat with Daniel Gray, Tessel talks us through the street games and pavement bounces of her youth, playing in boys’ teams until the age of 18 and her  pride in representing the very first Ajax women’s team. Plus, anger and amusement in the archives as Tessel talks about the historical suppression of women’s football, Likely Lads score avoidance and the joys of ‘next goal wins’.

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