DJ: The Derek Johnstone Story


Derek Johnstone with Darrell King

Category: Sport Biography
Pub Date: September 2007
ISBN: 1 84502 169 X
Extent: 256 pp.
Price: £17.99
Format: Hardback, 234 x 156 mm
Plate/Illustrations: 16pp



Paperback:
Pub date: July 2008
ISBN 13 978 1 84502 209 9
Extent 256 pp.
Price £7.99
Format Paperback, 198 x 129 mm
Plates 16pp.

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In October 1970, a raw 16-year-old kid from Dundee exploded on to the Scottish footballing scene. Derek Johnstone became an overnight sensation when he scored the winning goal for Rangers in the League Cup Final against Celtic at Hampden Park in just his second starting appearance for the Ibrox club.

Now, some 37 years on from the day that changed his life forever, one of Scotland’s most colourful and often controversial characters tells his own story. DJ: The Derek Johnstone Story is the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated journey of a real great.

From the memory of the game that made him, through a highly successful and at times tragic 15 years at Rangers, the man who played 546 times and scored 210 goals for the Glasgow giants lifts the lid on the famous 1972 Cup Winners’ Cup success in Barcelona, on life under the steely hand of Jock Wallace and on his emotional exits and return to Ibrox.

DJ speaks for the first time about his Argentina 1978 World Cup hell and why he turned his back on Scotland. He also delves into his brief managerial spell at Partick Thistle and speaks candidly about his reputation now in the eyes of the Rangers faithful. This is the unmissable, humorous, honest and at times heartbreaking story of a genuine footballing legend.