Blether: Dundee football team got the breaks they certainly didn’t deserve

“Give me a break” is a phrase heard often on the football pitch.

It’s, perhaps, usually directed at a referee when a player feels aggrieved.

However, for one Dundee amateur football club, getting a load of breaks in one particular season was not what they wished for!

Billy Webb sent in this fantastic photo of YM Anchorage from 40 years ago.

And it seems that season 1978-79 saw the team on first-name terms with the casualty department staff at Dundee Royal Infirmary!

Billy said: “This was a very unlucky season for YM Anchorage AFC.

“Every player in this photo fractured a limb at some point during that season.”

Back row (from left) — W McDonald, I Glen, J Lauchlin, W Webb, Unknown, W Webster.

Front row — T McVicar, J Webster, R Tinley, A McKenzie, B Gowans.