Psychedelic footballer – the secret life of Derek Dougan

Who was that tall, thin Irishman intently watching Syd Barrett and Jimi Hendrix onstage? What happened to his own single? And did rock play a part in Wolves' 3-1 defeat at Coventry?It was my dissertation supervisor who identified him: a tall, stern-looking man with cropped black hair, standing in the middle of the crowd at the Leicester College of Technology on Friday 10 February 1967, gazing intently at the figure of Syd Barrett, playing guitar a few feet in front of him. That same man had app...

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