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DAILY RECORD

Wednesday 17th December 2014

 

As news reaches him of his friend Jim Jefferies' demise at one of his former clubs Dunfermline Athletic, Jimmy Calderwood looks sad at his withered forget-me-nots in his suburban Fife conservatory. There is a smell of fresh bacon in the air and I'm expecting Mrs Calderwood to deliver them to us any moment given this homely environment.

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"Big Jim hasn't had it easy there. Aye JJ the J-dog has had a right ruff time of it there. I feel for him. I really do."

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It doesn't go unnoticed that during his empathic speech there is an increasingly frenzied frame of pocket snooker going on below the rim of the 1980s cane coffee table, which he tells me was gifted to him by his former Dunfermline Chairman John Yorkston. There is a glint in his eye.

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"I mind big Henrik that afternoon at Hampden in 2004 telling me what a great little team we'd put together at East End Park. It's sad to see how they've fallen......."

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Ever the raconteur, the former Pars boss took the Fife side up the SPL, comfortably consolidating their top flight status with impressive top-6 finishes and ultimately through to the Cup Final in 2004.

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"When my good friend Johan Neeskens sold me Jack de Gier in 2001 I knew we'd do something good there. Wee Johan carried on my work at NEC and we stayed good pals. I mind going over to speak to Neesko........"

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The old fidgety Jimmy is certainly very animated. He stands up suddenly, dropping his previously concealed and half-eaten packet of Frazzles down his front and shouts out something to his wife Sue about John Yorkston's phone number, top 6, and a word processor.

 

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