Billy Thomson asked on July 12 if Ron Yeats had any Scottish League or Scottish U/23 caps to go with his full international caps.
Billy felt ‘positive’ that he had but I could trace none.
However, Arabzone’s Andy Boyd may have come up with something with links into Billy’s school of thought — an array of ‘representative’ games in which the towering centre-half took part.
Said Andy: “I can’t find any Scottish League teams that involve Ron Yeats but I hope the following helps.
“At Brockville Park, home of Falkirk, on April 11, 1960, he played for a Second Division Select against the Scotland U/23 side, the latter winning 3-1.
“He is listed in an Army team in the programme for a friendly at Plymouth Argyle on September 28, 1960.
“Ron is also mentioned as having faced an FA XI at Hillsborough on October 21, 1960 (FA won 2-1), and again listed in the programme for a game against Tottenham at White Hart Lane on October 24, 1960.
“On February 13, 1961, he was in the British Army Select team, along with Jim Baxter and Alex Young, which lost 3-2 to the Scotland U/23 side (Law 2, St John) at Fir Park, Motherwell.
“Sketchy details have him appearing for ‘Scotland’ in a trial match against the Scottish League in February 1964.
“He also appeared for a Scottish XI in the John White Memorial Match in November 1964.”
Andy, forever helpful to this column, concluded with an interesting line.
He offered: “Ron Yeats said in The Topical Times (an annual football book from DC Thomson) that if a Celtic scout, very keen to sign him for the Parkhead side, hadn’t been killed in a fatal car crash, he wouldn’t have signed for Dundee United.
“United plunged him straight into the first team.
“From there, he never looked back and started on a journey which eventually took him to Anfield and Liverpool.
“Astonishingly, it seems that Yeats never once played a reserve game.”
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