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Article: Soccer bid to beat vandals; Driver whose bus was attacked by brick- throwing vandals starts youth football team
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- June 29, 2001
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A BUS driver targetted by stone throwing thugs is fighting back
by creating his own football team.
John McGuire, 47, wants some of the bored youngsters from
Roystonhill in Glasgow to join his team.
A month ago John told the Evening Times the housing estate had
been turned into a "war zone" with young thugs regularly firing a
hail of stones at the no. 329 service.
The Henderson Travel bus driver had seen missiles lobbed through
his windows narrowly missing passengers while colleague James Hill,
34 was badly bruised after a golf club was lobbed through an open
bus window.
But today Mr McGuire revealed he is fighting back with his own
crusade to stop the violence.
Three weeks ago he came ...