Back in May, Stevie Petrie gave his take on some key football matches in the 1970s between Dundee schools St John’s HS and Linlathen Secondary.
Wullie Tracey took to Facebook after reading it.
“I just had to have a laugh when I read Stevie Petrie’s piece in a Blether With Brown article,” he opened.
“He was writing about a game between Linlathen and the Johnnies in 1970, over in Linlathen, which was a league decider.
“It really was a crazy day.
“We all got the afternoon off to go over there to ‘support’ the team.
“Clarkie, who ran the team, told Brother Bede that he wanted as many of us over there as possible because he knew it was going to be a tough game and he didn’t want the team being intimidated by the locals.
“Stevie says the game was abandoned because of a dodgy penalty decision but I always thought it was because of all the fighting that was going on between us and the Linlathen mob!
“That’s all we did from the minute we arrived there.
“It was crazy and the best thing was the teachers seemed to be right behind us egging us on.
“Most Celtic supporters couldn’t stand Derek Johnstone after he scored against Celtic in the League Cup Final.
“I didn’t like him long before that! Brilliant memories, though, Stevie.”
* JOSEPH Johnstone, of Monifieth, asks me to settle an argument.
“I claim Partick Thistle were the first or one of the first Scottish teams to have floodlights installed,” he said.
“I grew up in Maryhill and remember being at the match which took place to officially open the lights at Firhill.
“It was against Tottenham and it was a game Thistle won.
“Can you confirm any of this.”
Partick beat visiting Spurs 1-0 (Kerr) on November 15, 1955, in front of 18,000 spectators.
As far as being the first in Scotland to play under lights, Stenhousemuir FC seem to have that distinction when they entertained Hibernian in a floodlit friendly on November 7, 1951, the Hibees winning 5-3.
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