After 35 years living here, Boro striking legend Bernie Slaven says he feels like a Teessider. But he is also very much a Scot with an accent as wide as the Clyde . Yet he played international football for the Republic of Ireland. He is a bundle of contradictions.
I talked to Bernie about his complex identities, the toxic sectarian backdrop to growing up in Glasgow, his culture shock on arriving in Middlesbrough in 1985 and how he learned to love - and champion - Teesside.
