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Scotland captain Andy Robertson credits Liverpool team-mate Mo Salah with making him a better player. (Record – subscription required), external

Soon to be out-of-contract Robertson, 32, plans to make a decision about his club future before the World Cup. (Scotsman – subscription required), external

Scotland midfielder Andy Irving, 25, believes leaving West Ham for Sparta Prague in January was important for his career. (Edinburgh Evening – subscription required), external

Former Rangers captain and manager Barry Ferguson understands why the club have decided not to appoint a new sporting director. (Sun), external

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Hearts’ fringe players are learning from this season’s title fight in order to make an impact next season. (Edinburgh Evening News – subscription required), external

Yan Dhanda, who is out on loan from Hearts, believes he has become a more complete player at Dundee. (Courier – subscription required), external

Everton are planning to offer David Moyes a new contract this summer in recognition of the 62-year-old Scot’s success in transforming the Toffees from relegation candidates to challengers for a place in Europe this season. (Guardian), external

Hamstrings “made of candyfloss” denied Martin Paterson the career he wanted as a player.

Now, as Notts County head coach, the 38-year-old is determined to ensure his players do not squander their opportunities in football.

That’s why, with the Magpies fourth in League Two with seven games left, the former Stoke City, Scunthorpe and Huddersfield striker, who played in the Premier League with Burnley, wants them to do all they can to seize their chance of promotion.

The manager Paterson has become, and the demands he puts on those under him, is fundamentally linked to the player he could never be.

He was only 30 when he retired, seeing out his playing days overseas with stints in the United States and India, when less than a decade earlier he was scoring in England’s top flight.

“I was robbed in my career, physically,” Paterson told BBC East Midlands Today.

“I never got the chance to show how good I was. I reached the Premier League at 22, I was a £1m player at 20. But then I had a massive knee injury, and my hamstrings were made of candyfloss.

“So I carry that into my coaching and, whether my players like me or not, I want them to get every chance to sit in their deck chair when they’re older and go, ‘I gave it my best shot and I reached the level that I should have reached’.

“I want my players to understand that I want to make them better. I never really got the chance to know how good I could have been, and I don’t want that for them.”

“I couldn’t believe it, my beloved Hull City were up against Georgie Best, Bobby Charlton and Denis Law. That’s like having Messi, Ronaldo and Mbappe in the same team,” Kelly recalled on the BBC’s Sporting Witness programme.

Former Hull City player Frankie Banks said: “It was a massive game, playing against Manchester United, who two years earlier had won the European Cup.

“The atmosphere was electrifying.

“The Man United players were our heroes. On paper we didn’t stand a chance. We wanted to win, we wanted to prove to everybody that although they were the best side probably in the world we could go out and give them a game.”

And that is exactly what they did, taking the lead on 11 minutes through Chris Chilton before Law pulled one back for United in the 78th minute to send the game into extra time. As the clocked ticked down on the additional half-hour, players realised they were about to be part of something historic.

“[Hull player-manager] Terry Neill obviously asked for volunteers and some of the lads were reluctant to step up and take the penalties and some were brave enough to step up and say ‘I’ll take one, I’ll take one and I’ll take one’,” said Banks, who was not on the team sheet that day but was at the game.

“Nobody wants to be the one that misses.”

And, in particular, no-one wants to be the first player ever to miss in a shootout.

However, Best was happy to go down as the first player to score, sending his right-footed shot low into the left corner.

For Hull City, Neill became the first player-manager to score in a shootout, helping keep the score level at 3-3.

“It was still anybody’s game and the noise was deafening,” said Banks.

But then, in a moment that countless big-name players to come would experience through the decades, Law saw his low shot saved by a diving Ian McKechnie.

“For ever and ever, Law will go down as the first man to miss in a penalty shootout and McKechnie will go down as the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in a penalty shootout,” said Banks.

Ken Wagstaff then missed for Hull and so when Willie Morgan scored for United, Hull knew they had to convert their final kick.

And that was when McKechnie became the first keeper to take a penalty in a shootout.

“Please, not him,” Kelly remembers thinking. “I couldn’t believe it, my mum couldn’t believe it, even Alex Stepney the Man United keeper couldn’t believe it and actually asked him what he was doing up there. I had my head in my hands!”

McKechnie stepped up and blasted a powerful strike… against the upper side of the crossbar. And with that, he became the first keeper to miss a penalty in a shootout.

“I still maintain that Ian McKechnie was the right choice – he had a sweet left foot – and he had the guts to do it. I’d have put money on him to score,” said Banks.

“Missing that penalty stayed with Ian for the rest of his life.”