Hutch, Hard Work and Belief

The Tommy Hutchison Story

Tommy Hutchison, Kevin Shannon

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781801503501
• Year: 2022

Mr Magic: The Autobiography of Tommy Hutchison is the story of how one small boy's near impossible dream became a reality. Growing up in poverty in the austere 1950s Fife coalfield, Tommy Hutchison had an unshakable belief that one day he would wear the dark blue shirt of Scotland. To an outsider it seemed an improbable ambition. Too weak to cross a ball from the byline to the goal area, the teenage Hutchison was overlooked by his teachers and never made the school football team. Through sheer determination, an indomitable spirit and hour upon hour of lonely practice, the adolescent Tommy was finally noticed by his local team, and his journey to Hampden and World Cup glory began. Tommy's football genius ultimately took him all over the world to play with and against some of the greatest footballers of the 1970s and 80s in a career spanning four amazing decades. Mr Magic is the funny yet inspiring story of how the seemingly unattainable can be achieved by unwavering, resolute self-belief.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword by Gordon Taylor
• Foreword by Gordon Milne
• Prelude
• 1. God’s Own Village
• 2. The Miner’s Raw
• 3. Son of a Miner
• 4. Eating, Sleeping, Football
• 5. Bluebells
• 6. Becoming a Wasp
• 7. I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
• 8. Tangerine Dream
• 9. Morty
• 10. Promotion
• 11. A Sinking Feeling
• 12. My Michelangelo Phase
• 13. The ‘M’ Men
• 14. Fever Pitch
• 15. Heroes and Villains
• 16. Fulfilment of a Dream?
• 17. The Aftermath
• 18. Lady Luck Bites Me on the Bum
• 19. Gone Fishing
• 20. Will We Stay or Will We Go?
• 21. It’s Farewell to Scotland
• 22. Money, Money, Money (or the Lack of It!)
• 23. Survival
• 24. On Our Way to Europe?
• 25. Not Open All Hours
• 26. Carefree in Seattle
• 27. Sky Blue to Sky Blue
• 28. Que Sera Sera
• 29. Ten Minutes from Glory
• 30. Top-Flight Farewell
• 31. Mr Gentleman
• 32. It’s Raining Again
• 33. The Only Way Is Down
• 34. Into the Hot Seat
• 35. Sharpe by Name
• 36. Back in the Hot Seat
• 37. Deadly Doug Strikes Again
• 38. Going the Full Circle
• 39. Life after Football
• 40. Football in the Valleys
• 41. The Last Post
• 42. Retirement
• Acknowledgements by Kevin Shannon
• Tributes to Tommy
• Photos