Robert James Oliver, or ‘Bob’ as he is known to friends and family, was born in Greenock, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and an English father.Back in 1956, his mother wanted him and his elder sister, Maggie, who was three years old at the time, to grow up in Scotland, but his father insisted on his family being with him in his hometown of Canterbury, Kent.He had a good job at the time – a boiler engineer in the city’s hospital shovelling coal for eight-hour shifts, which was better than he could get in Scotland back in those bleak days.After six months of tense negotiations – mainly by letter – Bob’s father executed a rescue mission and brought his family back to Kent, where they would grow up with English accents and the memories of a council estate that would inspire not only Bob but his now four sisters to get out and ‘find a better place’.If you ever question Bob about whose side he is on when England plays Scotland at any type of sport, he will reply, “My head is with England, but my heart is always with Scotland.”Bob now lives in Farnborough, Hampshire, along with his beloved wife and daughter.