Vincent de Vries spent enough time in Glasgow with Fernando Ricksen to know what the city meant to him. But it took seeing a security guard with tears in his eyes at Glasgow Airport six weeks after Ricksen finally succumbed to a six-year battle with Motor Neurone Disease last September to really ram home what Fernando meant to the city.
De Vries, Ricksen’s friend and biographer, has collaborated with Fernando’s widow Veronika on a new book that will be published to coincide with MND Awareness Day on June 22, part of the proceeds of which will go to the Rangers Charity Foundation.The book, ‘The Final Battle - Life With MND’, chronicles Ricksen’s fight and refusal to give in to the disease that finally claimed him at the age of 43 on
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