I Offered Tony the Chance of a Fresh Start and Just Look Where It's Led Him... ; Burns Glad to See How Old Bhoy has Bounced Back After He Took the Painful Decision to Let Him Go

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HE WAS the ironman defender who invented the huddle. Then he became the tragic, human figure to whom Scottish football gave a collective, consoling cuddle.

Tony Mowbray lost his wife, Bernadette, to cancer on New Year's Day 1995 and, from a distance, the sport's community witnessed his suffering and sent its sympathies.

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I Offered Tony the Chance of a Fresh Start and Just Look Where It's Led Him... ; Burns Glad to See How Old Bhoy has Bounced Back After He Took the Painful Decision to Let Him Go

Perhaps some memories of that touching tale wandered into minds last week when gentle giant Mowbray strolled back into our game as the surprise new manager of Hibernian.

His return was felt more acutely, however, by Tommy Burns as the Scotland assistant...

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