He was a Spurs and Scotland great, taken too soon after being struck by lightning, but JOHN WHITE’S memory lives on thanks to a stirring stage play telling his inspiring story

Home is the hero. He returns in spectral form but the welcome is substantial, loud in cheers and heartfelt in word and tone.

It is a sunny Tuesday in Musselburgh and the town is celebrating its annual festival. A crowd forms just outside Loretto School in anticipation of paying homage to a great footballer who was born in Fisherrow in the town.

It is 62 years to the day that John White, footballer and father, decided to have a game of golf at Crews Hill Golf Club in Enfield. He was on his own as his team-mates at Tottenham Hotspur did not

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