Thurso

Busy man.

But, uh, one of the things that sticks out was that he obviously went down south, and it was like, we, we kind of joke with him, saying, "How do you get noticed when you're from Thurso? How do you get noticed from Ross County, let alone Liverpool?" But obviously he explains it all.

But the, the attention and the care that Liverpool provided him, as a young, as a young boy, basically a hopeful prospect, and with all his injury problems, like, they couldn't have done enough for the guy.

They went out their way.

Right.

If you fancy surfing in Scotland, you might head to, I don't know, Thurso, Fraserburgh.

Mm-hmm.

Maybe the Outer Hebrides.

Norse also simplified certain grammatical features, such as reducing inflectional endings that English later shed entirely.

The Norse-Gaelic contact produced hybrid place names like Kirkwall and Thurso, echoing the cultural mingling in the islands.

Those early contacts left a linguistic signature that survives in modern Scots dialects, especially in the Northern Isles.

Then came the Norman conquest of England, which introduced a flood of French vocabulary into English.

it right back.

Born in Thurso, 1990.

What's life like growing up that north of Scotland back then? Much to do? I

think that I had a great childhood.

Like, obviously, it's far away and small town but not as small as you think there's maybe 8,000 people in Thurso or eight or nine thousand people so not not like tiny my school had maybe a thousand pupils in it so quite a lot obviously a lot a lot of friends and you're you're isolated up there there's not too much before you get there but you get there there's a wee bit to do and um Yeah, it's just, I remember playing football so much, you know, it was a time where, you know, you weren't on, before phones, before iPads, all this type of stuff, so you would just finish school, go out with your mates and just kick a ball about, or whether that be at the park or the street or anything, so, I mean, that's a lot of my memories up there, and yeah, it was a good time, any chance I get, I like to go back, although, You know, it takes five hours or so drive to get there one way, which is wild.

So it's a camel trek up there.

But no, it's nice to go back.

But it was great at Liverpool that even since then, I wasn't maybe before that a Liverpool supporter, but since then, you know they're a club that's just pretty special off the field as well as on so I look I look for their results and certainly since Andy and you know all these other aspects but Liverpool are they're a great club and treat you really good The dressing room thing and

Well, y- you and me both.

Uh, but yeah, so the, what we're doing is, me and Sanj, we'll be talking to Mark McAllister, we'll be talking to RJ Cash and Arkham from Combat League Wrestling up in Thurso.

So that was essentially my pitch, is 'cause it's a company that's in the Highlands.

Why not try and promote the, the Highland wrestling scene? Because anytime I've spoken to, to anybody about Combat League, it just bu- it just fascinates people that this, this kind of little corner of Scotland has got this, this...

So...

We took ourselves to Thurso, a friend of mine up there recommended a place that sells bikes and often has secondhand bikes.

So we found me a bike.

And I was sort of fairly confident that I could still ride it.