Standing tall after meeting my hero at last

From: The Scotsman | Date: August 28, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

ONE of my favourite Roger McGough poems is Bearhugs. It's about fathers and sons, and reflects on the moment when the boy passes the height of the man who had once seemed as tall as a tree.

When I used to live inside a Brazil strip, 1970 vintage, and would check the vast distance between the South American country and Scotland in my atlas and decide that this factor alone would prohibit a World Cup-winning star in canary yellow from ever playing football here, my father was so tall he didn't need a ladder to Snowcem our house. He was gigantic - no, he was Gigantor the Space-Age Robot, or the ...

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