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There is a player profile on him in the Athletic News of 30 December 1907 which reveals a bit more about his early career: he signed for Middlesbrough at the start of the 1905-06 season from Christ Church, a junior club in West Hartlepool. The article says he was only 19 years old at the time, so yo...

I've been doing more research into the 1967 tour and have written it up: https://www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-history-news-and-blog/did-joe-harper-really-score-five-the-conundrum-of-scotlands-1967-world-tour A few details, such as sub and goal times, have not yet been verified. The tour stats...

Re Shire v Hibs, there was also the Scottish Cup tie at Firs Park on 27 January 1968. However, the Evening Times usefully gives the precise crowd as 3,152: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2mus-XyGPC0C&dat=19680127&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Strangely that is less than half the number that watch...

David Ross analysed Clyde's record in some detail in his book The Roar of the Crowd, and pointed out that this figure for 1908 only appeared several years later, and it was indeed 18,000. He says the record for Shawfield was probably another Clyde v Rangers, the Scottish Cup tie on 10 February 1912,...

John Christie played for Rangers on a fairly regular basis 1879 to 1882 then went to Bolton.

I can't see any contemporary evidence for 'John' but he is named on several Rangers websites.

2,500 according to the Press and Journal. No crowd mentioned in the Glasgow Herald or Evening Times.

He is listed in the book as T Grassie, and he only played the one match against England at U15.

Re Tommy Gibb in Hong Kong, he played in every match of the tour according to Frank Clark's article in the Newcastle Journal, 5 June 1972.

And if you can get access to ProQuest (usually via a university) they have the South China Morning Post archives.

Davie Provan (ex Rangers and Scotland) was in the Plymouth Argyle team in 1973. Hugh Reed (born Dumbarton) was an unused sub. I think they were the only two Scots in the squad.

More detail: https://www.greensonscreen.co.uk/santos72H.asp

With so many more sources now available on BNA and elsewhere, I've been revisiting the fastest goals. I think this is never going to be definitive because of a lack of video evidence in most cases, and discrepancies between newspapers, but this is my take on Scotland's first minute goals, in order: ...

The game in Perth was actually on 22 May 1896, at Balhousie Park. Mrs Graham's XI 2, London and District 3.

There was a previous game at Balhousie Park on 29 May 1895. Reds 1 Blues 3 - part of the extensive tour by the British Ladies Football Club.

Ray Houghton and Bernie Slaven for Ireland (although the latter didn't get any game time).

He returned to Scotland in the summer of 1915 and played briefly as an amateur for Royal Albert in the Western League but was prevented from joining Hamilton by an SFA rule that would have required him to sign a professional form. There was also a report in August that he might play for Wishaw Thist...

He's not listed in the School Schools Who's Who.

Not as far as I know, not listed with either club. He was briefly with Clachnacuddin in the autumn of 1945 while stationed with the RAF, but that seems to be his only Scottish connection.

For Hearts players see: https://www.londonhearts.com/scores/new ... rs.html#K