Skagboys addict is the ultimate individualist.." "" remarks, "It was known that there was more material of "Trainspotting" than went into the final draft, but that’s true of most novels. So you anticipate a lashed-together series of outtakes and bloopers. What you get is something quite different. The prequel has all the marvellous set pieces, the schemes, stories, scams and dreams and the same mad profusion of narrators that characterises everything Welsh has written. But it’s long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality". Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer
Sam Irving Sam Irving Samuel Johnstone Irving (28 August 1893 – 12 December 1968) was an Irish footballer and manager. He played in The Football League for Bristol City, Cardiff City, Chelsea and Bristol Rovers, and for Dundee in the Scottish Football League. He won the FA Cup, Welsh Cup and Charity Shield with Cardiff in 1927. At international level, Irving made 18 appearances for Ireland. After retiring as a player, he was co-manager of Dundee United. Irving began his footballing career in the North-East of England, playing for a number of non-League clubs, and in 1911 having an unsuccessful trial with