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Saturday 16th April 2005, a 1-0 defeat against Montrose at Ochilview.

A previous Dundee United occurrence, against Alloa in the 1935-36 season: 25th Jan United 2 Alloa 2 (Scottish Cup 1st Round, Tannadice) 29th Jan Alloa 1 United 1 AET (Scottish Cup Replay, Recreation Park) 1st Feb United 4 Alloa 0 (Division Two, Tannadice) 3rd Feb United 2 Alloa 1 (Scottish Cup 2nd R...

Dundee United and Berwick Rangers drew 1-1 at Tannadice in the Scottish Cup on Tuesday 4th February 1975, with United winning the replay 1-0 at Shielfield the following evening. My favourite thing about this tie is that Berwick actually managed to produce a full match programme for the replay, a com...

scottish wrote:Note, even at this stage, the order of precedence.

No surprise that a gentleman amateur like Mr Fry would give Queen's top billing!

AS Monaco are another obvious example.

Yes, hats off for this, Mr Mitchell!

I love reading you get your teeth in to stuff like this David, because you back everything up with factual knowledge and analysis - even in a "what if" piece like this. Magic!

Garry Pendrey has been Strachan's assistant at all his clubs, I believe.

Kjell wrote:Our Boys later re-named to Dundee F.C. i believe, not sure though.

Not quite, Our Boys merged with East End to form Dundee FC in 1893.

The United side was:

Donald Mackay, Tommy Millar, Jimmy Briggs, Francis Munro, Doug Smith, Tommy Neilson, Mogens Berg, Dennis Gillespie, Finn Døssing, Ian Mitchell, Lewis Thom.

United won 3-0 with Døssing (2) and Berg the scorers. Don't have the Aberdeen line-up, sorry.

I believe Tannadice may have had the last remaining old-time scoreboard, it was still in use during the 1991-92 season, up until the ground started to be converted to all-seated. I think the board were worried about the effect on programme sales if the switched to this new-fangled idea of reading th...

Ah, excellent. That would presumably mean the "under-21 international" against England refers to a juvenile fixture, which makes sense. I see this game was an annual event in the late 40s; anyone know which year(s) Houston was capped, if so?

This is an extract from The Guardian 's 2008 obituary for Scottish painter John Houston: Houston was born at Buckhaven, in the kingdom of Fife, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth. He grew up at nearby Windygates, where his father's family kept the hotel and village shop. His father himself was...

Bobby McKay Jul 1st 1939 -Oct 31st 1939 Jimmy Allan Nov 1st 1939- Jun 1st 1940 Arthur Cram June 1st 1940 -Aug 15th 1944 Jimmy Littlejohn Aug 15th 1944 -Nov 15th 1944 Charlie McGillivray Nov 15th 1944 -Oct 15th 1945 OK then, so about the Dundee United managers..... The list as it stands was pretty a...

I've made a couple of changes to the Wikipedia page to remove the most obvious errors, such as the nonsense stats. Can't really add any more about Allan's playing career, but I have got some information on the previously accepted dates of his managerial tenure at Tannadice. Best place to cover that ...