Gordon Reid, of Carnoustie, responded to Stuart Young’s plea for information about YM Anchorage in the 1950s.
Gordon revealed he played alongside Stuart in a YM Anchorage side and that the side were riddled with good footballers.
“We had a lot of good players in that team,” recalled Gordon. “In fact, if you played for YM around that time you were considered quite elite.
“I remember winning the North of Tay Cup with the club.
“However, we could have lost it and all because of me.
“We beat Windsor in the final at NCR grounds on the Kingsway and we were celebrating in the dressing-room afterwards.
“Alex Wallace, of Windsor, came in an said: ‘You’re a bit premature in your celebrations as we are putting in a protest and pointed at me.
“Earlier that season, I had played for a team called ULRO in what I thought was a friendly at their private ground on the Arbroath Road (now known as Monymusk).
“However, the final was eventually replayed and we won again, so all was well.
“YM were the kingpins at the time and we were well supported by several benefactors.
“Two of those who also played were Jackie Johnstone, of Johnstone Stores, who had come back after a stint with Queen’s Park, and Charlie Gray, who ran a successful string of cinemas in the city.
“Other teams I played for were Coupar Angus, Arnot and St John’s FP.
“I was usually inside-left, and the player who played behind me for the Johnnies was none other than Bobby Cox.”
Gordon concluded with an amusing tale from a Scottish Cup tie.
“I was playing for YM in a Scottish tie in Ayrshire against a village side and there was a big crowd on the sidelines,” he recalled.
“I was galloping down the left-wing when, all of a sudden, I was sent sprawling.
“I looked up and did not see an opposition player anywhere near me.
“It turns out an old guy in the home crowd had stuck out his walking stick as I was running past.
“I pleaded to the referee but he just replied with a grin: ‘Listen, laddie, you go home after this game. I have to live here’.”
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