A further take on our ‘brothers’ theme over the last few months sees it entering international territory.
A friend asked me if I knew who were the first brothers to play together for Scotland.
It is difficult to dig too much into this as it would take an age to research.
However, I’ll offer the Shaw brothers in 1946, then see if any BwB readers can come up with something different.
David Shaw (Hibs) and Jock Shaw (Rangers) were Scotland’s full-backs as they played Switzerland and England in Victory internationals.
Staying with brothers — but in a different sport — is a comment from Andrew Howard.
“I’ve been reading with interest your articles on brothers and fathers and sons playing together,” said Andrew.
“This may or may not interest your readers as it is a change of sport to golf but there was once three brothers in the same Ryder Cup team.
“Charles, Reginald and Ernest Whitcombe all played in the Britain and Ireland side which were beaten 9-3 by the USA in 1935.
“That event took place at Ridgewood, New Jersey.”
*The latest friendly pub argument is from Trades Bar regular Barry Thomson.
“We are always pitting football questions against each other in the pub,” said Barry, of Coldside, Dundee.
“I say that when Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan were sent off when playing for Leeds and Liverpool respectively in the
FA Charity Shield, they were the first British players ever to be sent off at Wembley.
“My mate John Herd disagrees and says there must have been others in Wembley’s long history.
“I also went further and claimed that Antonio Rattin of Argentina was the first player ever to be sent off at Wembley.”
Bremner and Keegan, indeed, were the first British players to be sent off at Wembley in that season-opening game in 1974.
Rattin, in the quarter-final of the World Cup in 1966 against England, was not the first at Wembley — although he was the first against England at Wembley.
That ‘first-ever’ accolade goes to Boris Stankovic, of Yugoslavia, when he played against Sweden at Wembley in the 1948 Olympics.
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