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James Clark saw Alan
in London's Carnaby Street

I decided to travel to London in the morning and do a bit of shopping during the day before going to the match. Anyhow, I was in Soccer Scene in Carnaby Street (sorry to advertise) and was just wandering around aimlessly, looking at stuff without intending to buy anything and not really paying much attention to where I was going. Suddenly, as I approached the display of those funny little figurines of premiership players with huge heads that don't actually look like who they are meant to be, I noticed out of the corner of my eye a television camera focussed on a person about two yards directly in front of me. Immediately, I stopped, attempting to not interrupt whatever was being filmed. However I evidently didn't manage it quickly enough as they stopped filming and the man the camera was focussed on turned and looked at me. It was Alan Hansen.! Suffice to say, (unsurprisingly) on the evidence of what I saw then and there, Alan could glare for Scotland. I didn't ask for an autograph.
Last weekend I was watching Hansen's BBC documentary, "The Sack Race" when I spotted the clip I had unwittingly done my best to ruin. As much as the anecdote has made my mates laugh, I have to say I wish it had never happened. I expected to go through my stay on this planet without ever meeting Alan Hansen, but I would have hoped that if ever I did, we could be mates and chat about defensive frailties, or at least just be civil to each other. But no. I had to go and antagonise him.