It's five years to the day that James McArthur joined Crystal Palace and in an exclusive interview for the official Palace v Everton programme, the Scotsman opened up about life in Glasgow's gritty 1990s.
Glasgow, 1987. It’s mid-autumn in the city’s East End, one of the most violent areas of Scotland, and James McArthur has just been born.
Elsewhere and only days after, two men are murdered a dozen miles from the newborn’s home. Gangs rule the streets and the emergence of Class A drugs take their first grasp of the criminal market in working class neighbourhood Barrowfield.