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“The thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football,” the English author Terry Pratchett wrote in the novel “Unseen Academicals.”

He had already been capped for Welsh Students rugby league side, was captain of the Welsh Academicals RFC and had been signed to Cardiff RFC, when just a couple of �������t¶�� in for them he suffered a career-ending injury.

Had the Netherlands international moved on then, maybe, Everton’s James McCarthy might have been reunited with his former Hamilton Academicals and Wigan team-mate, James McArthur at Selhurst Park.

He took Academicals to the top flight through the play-offs last season and then to their first victory at Celtic since 1938.

I have a football training session every Tuesday and Thursday night and play with Hamilton Academicals' girls' football club.