“It was good to read your article re Dundee United winning promotion to Scotland’s top division,” was the opening line from Duncan Fenwick, referring to BwB on December 9.
“This was my first-ever attendance at a professional football match.
“I was 10, and a school friend and neighbour, who was already a United supporter, asked if I would accompany him to the game.
“I asked my parents’ permission to attend and the result is I have been a United supporter ever since.
“For a boy of 10, I just found the atmosphere totally transfixing and was instantly hooked.
“I invaded the pitch along with hundreds of others, when such an act was one of pure delight and not one of aggression and frowned upon subsequently.
“I don’t know if it is poetic licence on my part (and failing memory) but I seem to remember adult male supporters carrying off the United players on their shoulders to the dressing-room entrance Roy of the Rovers style.
“Incidentally, I also seem to remember that this was big Ron Yeats’ last-ever match for United.
“Bill Shankly took him to Liverpool for the following season and we all know what happened there.
“Yeats was replaced by United legend Doug Smith, probably the best Scottish centre-half of the era never to win a Scottish cap.”
Bob Scott was able to pick out one of the Dundee United fans in the photo because he was a former team-mate in a schools football team.
“Some time ago, BwB published a photo of the Linlathen Secondary School football team from the early 1960s,” he said.
“The forward line at the front of the photo was . . . myself, Bobby Buchan, Billy Berrington, George Falconer and Frankie Strachan.
“Alas, the last-mentioned trio are no longer with us.
“Bobby Buchan is, though, and it is him who I have picked out in the ‘Tannadice invasion’ photo.
“He is right in the middle of three policemen who are trying to restore order.”
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