User:Drewadamson

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Andrew (Drew) Adamson was born at a very early age in Paisley, Scotland, on the 8th of November 1958. In response to that oft-asked question, when a door has been left ajar, he was, in fact, born in a park, Barshaw of that ilk.

His father, Andrew Snr, son of John and Annie, was born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, on 23rd January, 1929. Having a Fifer as a father has apparently caused no major psychological damage, although there are dissenting voices. Andrew Snr had three siblings, an elder, Joanne, Drew's favourite auntie (Aunt Joan as Drew and his younger brother Iain called her), and two younger brothers, George and John. Joanne married Frederick Finnie, a successful cigarette trader in the wartime black market, and a major influence on the youg Drew's life, his favourite uncle and a man of unimpeachable character.

Drew's mother, Mary Stevenson McMillan Tweedie aka May, despite the multi-barreled name, was born, on 29th April 1929, into the working-class family of the world renowned welder Robert Tweedie of Paisley and his wife, Mary, having three junior siblings, Robert Jnr, Duncan and James.

Andrew Snr was a woodworker of some note, a joiner/carpenter to trade, a devout Christian and a stalwart of his local parish Church of Scotland, St Ninians, in in the leafy Ferguslie suburb of Paisley, and was Captain of the Boys Brigade Company associated with that church, the Glorious 30th, until he suffered his first heart attack at the age of 35, and was forced to surrender his office on medical grounds.

As a child Drew attended the Sunday School at St Ninians, where lunch consisted of astonishingly weak diluted orange drinks and broken biscuits, and joined the Lifeboys of the 30th, later to become the Junior Section of the Boys Brigade. Drew's sporting prowess on the football field was noticed at this time, and from the age of 8 he played a couple of games for the 30th Lifeboys, being sensationally deprived of any future involvement in the 30th's inglorious lack of success, by the emotionally tyrannical Jimmy Watson, who insisted on his tactics being adhered to, when the young Drew, being all-knowledgeable in the beautiful game, even in those tender years, wished to play to the then universal under-12 tactic of "everybody, including the keepers, chase the ba'", and substtuted him halfway through his second game. It was to be a long hard winter before the wee man kicked another ball in anger.