When I became sports editor of The Sunday Independent back in 1998 I was lucky enough to inherit Bruce Fordyce as a columnist. He had been brought on to the paper by the late Rodney Hartman and his deputy, the equally great Gavin Schmidt. 

Fordyce’s column would mostly — perhaps always — arrive via fax and the transcribing of it, usually a pain in the days before copy and paste, never felt like a chore. Bruce is a talented and natural storyteller and typing his thoughts and tales was to go with him on his journey for the week. ..

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