A Raccoon Stole My Thunder

Alex Gordon has been at the forefront of Scottish sports journalism for over 50 years. Primarily as Chief Sports Sub Editor with the Daily Record, Sports Editor with the Sunday Mail and Managing Director at 7 Day Press Scotland's leading freelance sports agency. He still works freelance. A Raccoon Stole My Thunder is the long awaited follow up to Alex Gordon's Jinx Dog Burns Now Flu described at the time as "A rollicking often hilarious trip through the crazy world of Scotland's newspapers, a journey behind the headlines of the biggest most sensational Scottish sports stories." Like Jinx , A Raccoon Stole My Thunder sheds fresh light on old stories and bring more sensational stories into print for the first time. But A Raccoon Stole My Thunder also offers a further and deeper dimension as Alex Gordon draws on his extensive knowledge of, and close personal friendships with, many of the greatest legends of Scottish sport to pay powerful homage to these immortal stars; from the Funeral Eulogy that Tommy Gemmell insisted Alex be the one to deliver; to touching tributes to Billy McNeil, Bertie Auld and John Hughes and many others of the Lisbon Lions, all of whom Alex knew well and who trusted him to author the classic Lisbon tribute book The Lisbon Lions: The 40th Anniversary Celebration on their behalf; to other stars from Denis Law to David Hay, Tommy Burns and Ken Buchanan.