Red cards were the order of the day as Joe Hunt sent in several queries.
Actually, red cards were not even used at the time of these games and were just termed as sendings-off.
Joe, of Kirkton, Dundee, asked: “My grandfather, also Joe, was a Kilmarnock supporter and he used to tell of the great Killie team which won the league in the mid-1960s and which reached the semi-final of the Inter-Cities’ Fairs Cup.
“He also spoke of Killie getting some harsh red cards by foreign referees in that tournament.
“Who were the players sent off?
“Also, did Celtic have any players dismissed in their European Cup-winning season?
“I seem to remember Jim Craig being at least one.
“Also, who was the first Scottish player and the first Dundee and Dundee United player to be sent off in a European game?”
First to Killie, and they had three players dismissed in their 1966-67 Fairs Cup campaign.
Jackie McInally was sent off against Royal Antwerp, Jim McFadzean against La Gantoise, and Gerry Queen versus Lokomoti Leipzig. These dismissals didn’t stop the Rugby Park side going all the way to the semi-final.
They drew 0-0 with Leeds United at Rugby Park before exiting the tournament after a 4-2 reverse at Elland Road.
No Celtic player was sent off in their 1966-67 European Cup campaign.
Joe may be thinking of the previous season when Jim Craig was sent for an early bath against Dynamo Kiev in a European Cup-Winners’ Cup tie.
The first Scottish bad boy was Rangers’ William Logie in a European Cup tie against Nice in 1956-57.
Alan Gilzean has the tag of Dundee’s first dismissal in Europe, coming in the semi-final second leg against AC Milan in season 1962-63.
Dundee United’s Andy ‘The Major’ Rolland fell foul of the match official against Spartak in their 1970-71 Fairs Cup campaign.
n OLD chestnuts crop up every now and then, and Billy Shearer tried to catch me out with an old chestnut.
“How many teams have their name on the Scottish Cup?” asked Billy, of Fintry, with a mischievous glint in his eye.
I played along at first and pretended to start counting out the years and winners from when the first Scottish Cup competition took place in 1873-74.
Then dumbfounded him by answering: “Eight!”
Billy was slightly startled and immediately said: “I thought I had you there.”
There are just eight different teams listed on the actual cup itself, with many more on the base on which the grand old trophy stands.
Undaunted, Billy pitched in with: “But I bet you can’t name them!”
I did actually manage to name six of the eight clubs — Queen’s Park, Vale of Leven, Renton, Celtic, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. The two I missed were Third Lanark and Dumbarton. On the cup, QP are listed nine times, Leven three, Renton twice.
n JANE NUGENT reckoned she recognised a relative in a BwB photo. On April 22, the Dundee Junior Select side photo — part of the Ardath Tobacco Co Ltd collection — caught her eye.
In an email, she said: “In that Dundee Junior Select side photo, I think the P Fox looks like my uncle Pat Fox. He was born 1912. I think he was also a goalkeeper for Fairmuir before the war.
“He died in 1945.”
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