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Some answers, by looking through club histories and news reports: Blantyre Vics: Beadle was in fact Beedie: William A C Beedie, who played over 200 games for Portsmouth in the 1920s. Clydebank: Lang should read Laing; I think this is probably James Laing who then played for Strathclyde, Bathgate and...

I've got a copy in my collection, and I'm fairly sure it is in the National Library. But even better, those nice people at Google have digitised it: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jEA ... &q&f=false

Thanks.

For anyone still interested in seeing the film, it is on BBC iPlayer until the beginning of March - within the UK only, unfortunately - at this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qc907

No, just plain Robert, born 1858 in Barrhead.

I have him at Arthurlie 1879-87, and no other clubs. Does that tally with your own info?

Apologies if this has been posted before but reading through press reports from the 1880's relating to Arthurlie I came across new info for me at least. McPherson who was capped against England was commonly thought to be Robert as it was 90% R McPherson so on seeing him listed as B McPherson I just...

It took a while, but I've now confirmed his (illegitimate) birth on 5 July 1866 at Rattray, Perthshire.

BBC Alba will be showing a new documentary on Third Lanark on Saturday 27 January 2018 at 9pm. And no doubt thereafter on iplayer. It tells the story of the club, with a particular focus on its demise. I may appear at some stage (at least I should hope so, given the amount of time they spent filming...

My first reaction was to point you at the Evening Times archive on Google newspapers, but I see they are missing a lot of issues in 1980 and even the edition for Saturday 9 August, which includes the Sports Times, is missing a few pages. Here is one quick answer, from the Rangers Football Companion ...

Perhaps it would be better to try the Match Reports database: http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/imag ... rlist.html

Just click on a year, and then for each date it includes all the relevant matches.

This is him: https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/it ... -1-3371752

Which year?

I just watched a video of the match on Youtube and although brief highlights can be misleading, it would be hard to find a worse defensive display from a Scotland team - not hard to see why this was Gordon McQueen's last cap. On the sending off, two points. First, it was a second booking rather viol...

From the Austrian news archive, there is a report on the Slavia Prague v Amateur XI game on 8 November 1908: http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=ptb&datum=19081109&query=%22fussball%22&ref=anno-search&seite=5 (halfway down left column). The script is hard to decipher, but I think it says tha...

I've just received the book, and want to say what an impressive piece of work it is. Great value for a tenner! I ordered via Lulu and it took about a week to arrive. A couple of production comments, which you might be able to fix. The front cover seems to have been uploaded at the wrong size, as it ...

With particular thanks to jeroen for those links, I've now written up the fascinating story of Johnny Dick: http://www.scottishsporthistory.com/spo ... nto-sparta