Blether with Brown: Albert Kidd will always be Heart-breaker

Iain Chalmers, of Perth, asks which clubs Albert Kidd played for before joining Dundee.

Kidd played for Brechin after stepping up from youth football.

In 1977, Arbroath boss Albert Henderson paid the Glebe Park club £10,000 to take him to Gayfield.

Can you imagine that type of money exchanging hands between these clubs nowadays?

I digress but back to Kidd and he joined Ally McLeod’s Motherwell for over £100,000 at the end of 1979.

His Gayfield team-mate Joe Carson was also part of the deal which took him to Fir Park.

Cuttings from the time of that transfer suggest the fee was “at least £80,000 and a club record fee”.

However, in spite of anything he achieved in the game, Kidd will always be remembered as the man who scored the goals which killed off Hearts’ title hopes in 1986.

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