Wilkie Can't Wait to Be Back On the Campaign Trail for Club and Country ; Big Interview

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THOMASJEFFERSON, the prescient former President of the United States, once espoused the notion that the harder he worked, the luckier he became.

It's a philosophy which must be keenly noted by one young Scottish defender, who has become skilled in the art of overcoming adversity in a career with more ups and downs than an American presidential election.

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Wilkie Can't Wait to Be Back On the Campaign Trail for Club and Country ; Big Interview

Lee Wilkie became the first Dundee player to score the winner for Scotland in a full international since the legendary Alan Gilzean.

But the towering defender also holds the more ignominious honour of scoring the decider the last time Dundee United won a derby, courtesy of an own goal on his 22nd birthday in April 2002.

Banished from Dens by an Italian manager, who refused to speak to him...

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