Book description
Penthouse and Pavement is not a book for glory-hunters. It is a
book about pain. It's about the anguish of watching your team lose 9-2
in the very first game you ever saw, about the horrible inevitability
of defeat that so many feel so often. It's about despair, dismay and
black, frightening, deathly gloom.
But it's also about hope. About dreams. And about dreams which
sometimes, just sometimes, come true. Like the once-in-a-lifetime
ecstasy of winning the Cup or a league. And as anyone who's had that
moment-of-a-lifetime knows, the joy is even greater because you've
known the pain. For Bill Leckie, who has followed St Mirren since
1964, it all became worthwhile when they won the Scottish Cup in 1987.
This book is about these clubs and the people who love them. It's
about the kind of fan who doesn't go to games expecting to win . . .
or, worse, demanding it. This book is about being willing to accept a
lifetime of frustration in return for one day of utter wonderment.
Bill Leckie is a former Bank of Scotland Sports Journalist of the
Year and currently writes for the Scottish
Sun
. He does commentary for Scottish Football League matches for BBC Radio
Scotland and often contributes to programmes on Talksport and BBC Radio
Five Live. He lives in Falkirk with his wife and son.
