What a performance

This week saw the passing of Hugh McIlvanney one of the true giants of sports writing on these islands. Such was his way with words that you suspected he could easily have followed his brother Willie and become a novelist. Indeed some of his prose is almost poetic in the manner it illuminates those great moments in sport. The Ayrshire boy once put his success down to the fact that his old man insisted he and his 3 brother went to the library once each week and this made them avid readers...