Summary
Blackpool supporters will probably not realise this, but one of their key players has previous when it comes to starring in fairytale stories of the sporting underdog, writes David Friel.
Jimmy Johnstone should have had neither the height nor build to take on Europe's best and become one of the greatest players Scotland has produced, but he did. When the time came for the Celtic legend to be immortalised in film in the early 1990s, it was Stephen Crainey who landed the part of the young Johnstone.See the full content of this document
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Now 28, the Blackpool defender laughs about that early brush with fame - "They only pi...
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