Gordon Reid, who relayed the YM Anchorage story on July 5, wasn’t, as it turned out, in the 1951 photo of the team I published with the story.
I’d plucked the picture from our files in the hope some of the players were recognisable as team-mates to Gordon.
“They were a few years ahead of me, as I played for YM around the mid-1950s,” he offered.
“One player I do recognise is in the centre-forward position he was Charlie Gray, of Gray’s Cinemas.”
Gordon gave another amusing tale.
“In 1951, I was playing for the Logie School team.
“I was selected for a Dundee U/16 Schoolboys match on a Friday night at Tannadice against Aberdeen,” he recalled.
“After the game, we were taken down to Kinnear’s Restaurant, which was situated opposite the Green’s Playhouse in The Nethergate.
“It was a pretty decent restaurant with the waitresses suitably attired with frilly bands in their hair and frilly aprons.
“One approached me and asked for my order, to which I replied: ‘Sausage, egg and chips’.
“Team-mate Mike Gilchrist, of St John’s, sitting next me, ordered the same meal.
“However, sitting opposite was a priest who helped run the select side and he leaned across to Mike and said firmly: ‘You’ll have fish!’
“Mike just meekly agreed.”
Gordon handed in a photo from his Logie School days, the side which won the Dundee United Cup in season 1950-51.
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