The Lost Shankly Boy - George Scott

Picked this up at the Library at the weekend because when having a read through it there was a picture of a house in Torry and being a Torry loon it got me interested.

It is a about a player called George Scott, who older forum members may remember from his brief time at Pittodrie around the 65-66 season, who we signed from Liverpool, where he played for for five years, but he never made the first team, to be fair he had a fair bit of competition and was only 15 when he fwent down. Injury saw him leave us after a short while and he only played a few games for us, I had never heard of him before.

Most of the book is about Liverpool though, but I like reading about the Shankly era even though I can't really abide the club.

A very easy read, but most stories are about Shankly, many of them we have heard before over the years, but it was nice to read about someone from Torry who nearly made it in the world of football and there are some parts about Aberdeen the City and the club.

I found by reading it that an old player of ours Harry Yorston gave up his Aberdeen career to become a fish market porter! I had to read that a few times and apparently it is true.