'They were the worst minutes in my life': Jamie Mitchell on humiliation rituals and why football must do better

Wilma needs no encouragement to fetch the scrapbook. Its burgundy spine wore out many years ago, so layer on layer of tape tries desperately to cradle over 60 pages of newspaper cuttings documenting every word ever published about her son, Jamie Mitchell.It is a timeline of his triumphs. The wonderkid hyped alongside Barry Ferguson and Charlie Miller at Rangers Boys’ Club. The day he signed an eight-year deal at top-flight side Norwich City in 1990. His heroics in Europe’s biggest youth tournament in Belfast. Over 300 hundred senior appearances at Scarborough, Clyde and Partick Thistle. Five player-of-the-year awards.Advertisement