Tony Porter
Tommy Docherty, who died at the age of 92 on new year's eve, will be recalled as one of the game's great characters.
Known universally as 'The Doc', the Gorbals-born Scot former Arsenal man managed 12 clubs as well as his national team during a colourful of career.
Often outspoken and often controversial, he was renowned for his wise-cracks, one-liners and never-ending anecdotes which revealed a life lived to its full.
Docherty spent nine years as a player with Preston North End. He also played for Scotland at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden before a managerial career that took him as far as Australia as well as Portugal. Docherty is mostly associated for his five-year spell with Manchester United.
Read Arsenal supporter Tony Porter as he recalls a long-lost day at Highbury watching The Doc.
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Boxing Day, 1958
