Summary
Coming face to face with Jim Leighton can make a reporter feel the way strikers used to. This is a man who has made an art form of not giving anything away. You don't expect to get much out of Leighton, especially when there are questions to ask about something which is still painfully raw for him. The way he was sacked by his old Aberdeen mucker Mark McGhee earlier this season is the elephant in the corner of his net. Put it this way, before BBC Radio Scotland took him on as a pundit they asked whether he felt comfortable about going back to Pittodrie to give an unbiased view of McGhee's team. Of course, he told them. Why wouldn't he?
Leighton has always seemed a deep, introspective sort of guy. A man who carried his setbacks heavily. That's an impression shaped by the media, of course, when in actual fact hardly any journalists know him. He kept his distance during a hugely distinguished career which flung him reluctantly into the limelight.See the full content of this document
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'This One Hurt As Badly As Anything'
When Aberdeen were in their 1980s pomp, Leighton won everything up to and including the European Cup Winners' Cup. His total of 91 Scotland caps is bettered only by Kenny Dalglish.
People know all of that. What is unusual about Leighton is that the lows of his career also seem disproportionately vi...See the full content of this document
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