 Wark was born on 4 August 1957 , in Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital to parents Alex and Helen . The third of four children , he has an older sister Wilma , older brother Alex and younger brother Andrew . The family lived in a four @-@ storey tenement block in Partick . The family was impoverished : Wark 's parents could not afford a cot and as a small child , he slept in a drawer from a sideboard . Although christened John , Wark was soon referred to by his family as Johnny , a diminutive that stuck throughout his footballing career . 
