If your team scored a barrowload of goals in a Scottish Cup tie, what might be your recollection of the event.
A great display? Some fantastic goals?
A great atmosphere on a day your team really gelled and won well?
Well, not for me.
It was of a Brechin City player in 1964 being chased off the park by Dundee fans.
Fast forward 53 years and I’m sitting in the lovely home of that same Brechin player, George Doull.
George laughed as he recalled the story.
“We were beaten 9-2 that day by a wonderful Dundee side which had reached the semi-final of the European Cup a year earlier,” said George.
“I was a Dundee United fan and built myself up for that game.
“I kind of lost it that day and put in a couple of meaty challenges.
“That didn’t please the Dark Blues fans and a few of them came on the pitch at the end and chased after me.
“I managed to get to the dressing-room, though.”
George went on: “The headline in one of the papers the next day was: ‘Cox chaired off, Doull chased off’.
As I relayed in my introduction, I was at that game and vividly remember that incident over half-a-century later.
This tale, however amusing, is not the reason George contacted me.
The wonderful St Joseph’s Forfarshire Cup-winning photo at Dens Park from 1928-29 continues to provoke comment, and George was the latest.
George, of Camperdown Road, continued: “My father James played in that team and I still have his medal.
“I have others of his, too — Evening Telegraph Cup, Forfarshire Consolation Cup, and a ‘DCC’ winners when he was with East Craigie.”
George emulated his father by signing for St Joseph’s as a 16-year-old in 1958.
And he immediately made an impact with the team.
He went on: “My first game for the Joeys was against St Andrews United and I scored five goals.
“I was signed after the game and put into a new St Joseph’s amateur team alongside great players such as Tommy Reid, Tam Delaney and others.
“We beat really good amateur sides such as NCR and YM Anchorage.
“However, protests started to come in regarding our registrations and the team was eventually booted out of the amateur league.”
After St Joseph’s, it was on to Alyth United, where he played alongside future Dundee star Gordon Wallace, Ron Sunter, Willie Hood and the legendary Alex Sharp.
In addition to Brechin, George also had a spell in the seniors with Montrose, where he teamed up again with Gordon Wallace.
Late in his career, he came back to the juniors with Lochee Harp, under the famous Kelly brothers.
He recalled: “I worked with Ged Kelly at Timex and he talked me into going to the Beechwood club.
“By that time, I had moved back to centre-half. However, I enjoyed my spell with them.”
In that 9-2 success mentioned earlier, on January 25, 1964, Dundee lined up — Slater; Hamilton, Cox; Seith, Ryden, Stuart; Penman, Cousin, Waddell, Gilzean, Cameron.
Dee scorers were Gilzean 3, Penman 2 (1 pen), Cousin 2, Waddell, Cameron.
Pollok and Wyles netted for Brechin, whose team was — McVitie; McLevy, Kennedy; Smith, Tocher, Duigan; Wyles, Thoms, Doull, Pollock, Sharp.
Glebe Park was bulging and the attendance was 8,022.
George is featured in the two photos at the top of the page — Brechin City and Lochee Harp juniors.
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