Books by Douglas Beattie

Douglas Beattie is an award-winning BBC news journalist (Sony Gold radio award for coverage of the London 7/7 bombings on Radio 4 six o'clock news). He regularly works for BBC Radio 5Live and Radio 4 and has also worked with the UK Press Association, Scottish Television's political unit and has covered football for the Daily Record newspaper, the biggest selling tabloid in Scotland.He has been a passionate football fan since a wee bairn, despite the fact that his earliest memory is of Scotland's disastrous 1978 World up campaign.Asked why he wanted to write this book, Douglas said he had "always been interested in derby matches and the way they divide communities. I wanted to find out what made them special, how the clubs are different and why people choose to identify with one club and hate the other in the same city."