Andy made me smile when mood was sombre

HOOR NATURED Halliday

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THE time was three minutes past ten o'clock on Tuesday night.

The text message was from an impeccable source.

It came from the man who told me that Motherwell would beat Celtic at Fir Park because, stylistically, they would simply have too much for their visitors.

That was why I wrote in this column last weekend that I had it on good authority Jens Berthel Askou would get the better of Wilfried Nancy.