This article is about a minister of religion with a passion for football: for an article about the father of Sarah, Duchess of York see Ronald Ferguson Ron Ferguson is a Scottish author, best known for his two books about Cowdenbeath F.C: Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil:a chronicle of Coal, Cowdenbeath and Football(1993 Aberdeen, Northern Books from Famedram ISBN 0905489535) and Helicopter Dreams: the quest for the Holy Grail (2006 Northern Books ISBN 0905489535).In 1993 Ferguson, a minister of religion at St Magnus Cathedral[1], Orkney with several solidly selling religious titles[2] approached his usual publisher with an idea for a diary about a season in the life of a long-suffering football fan. They declined, but when eventually a publisher was found they found they had a cult hit on their hands[3]. The book mixes the memories of a Cowdenbeath family with a realistic review of a disastrous season on the pitch. It is also a celebration of a mining town that has seen better days and the noted personalities it has produced[4]. The sequel, published at the conclusion of a championship winning season, again charmed all who read it[5].
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- ^ St Magnus cathedral
- ^ The Story of the Iona Community Wild Goose Publications, new revised edition 1998. ISBN 1-901557-00-6
- ^ See review by Robert Philip, Daily Telegraph 14th October 1993
- ^ for example, Dennis Canavan, Jim Baxter, Harry Ewing, Jennie Lee and Sir James Black
- ^ It even has a foreword by Gordon Brown.
