There were a couple of follow-ups to the football shield which had been lying in John Letford’s loft for many years.
It was the Bilton Shield and Grant Gall confirmed this was competed for in the Angus Amateur U/16 League.
“I played with St Patrick’s in 1969-70 and the team was run by Frank McGinnis (father of former Dundee United player Gary) and who was later the Kingsway Tech janitor,” said Grant.
“I think he also ran Fintry CC, who were the 1967-68 winners.
“I think you may have featured a picture of that team a while back.
“St Patrick’s have had a few players featured on BwB pages such as Charlie Morgan, Tam Saunders, Pandle Craig, Jake Thompson, George Morris, Jim McCann, Shug Docherty and Tam Campbell, younger brother of Frankie.
“From what I remember, we went through the league, losing just one game, possibly to Club Romano.”
“Great to see you are keeping busy with your midweek Sporting Post Edition,” was Dave Bruce’s opening line.
“When I was much younger, I used to deliver the Sporting Posts on a Saturday evening, so I can relate very easy to it.”
Dave was replying in regard to the Butterburn YC team used in the same article as the Bilton Shield.
However, it seems he won’t be doing much running about for a while.
He revealed: “I’m just back from holiday to recover from a left hip replacement to be followed by another hip and two knees.
“Think I might only make the bench this weekend!
“Looking at the photograph, I think this was the Butterburn team which played in the Scottish Cup final against Kirkside or Kirkstyle United or Athletic.
“I think we were beaten 4-3.
“The game was won almost single-handedly by a player called Wilson, who went on to play for Airdrie.
“The Butterburn team I’m sure was a mixture of U/17s and U/18s. The venue was definitely at Claypotts Park, home of Broughty Athletic.
“If all the above is not totally accurate, I’m sure BwB readers will correct me.”
As I said in the original article on June 24, I was also at that match, and the name of the opposition (perhaps) has come back to me as Kirkstyle Rangers.
I’m pretty sure I spent the first half of the match helping in the tuck shop. I was with the Butterburn U/15 team at the time and arrived to cheer on the team about an hour before kick-off.
Burn committee member George Keir saw me and asked me to give a hand on the “shoppie”, which was set up on a table behind the top goal at Claypotts Park selling only bottles of lemonade and packets of plain crisps. This I dutifully did and managed to see the second half of the game with my ‘wages’ a bottle of lemonade and a packet of plain crisps!
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