Higher Learning

Nick Brown talks to Montrose’s leading scorer, whose seventh goal of the season came in a 1-1 draw with Hamilton Academical before the winter break. McDonald-Nguah describes a childhood spent working out where she fitted with a Scottish mother and Ghanaian father, and a route into Celtic’s first Under-11s girls team via a phone number printed in the club annual. She is frank about racism, from a hotel incident on Scotland youth duty to microaggressions and online abuse after a tackle, and about a mental-health crisis that led to an overdose before Christmas 2024. She now works in anti-racism education for Show Racism the Red Card.