Blether with Brown: Joe always made the game of football look very easy

Dave Souter offered some input after we featured Joe Ogilvie on March 29.

“Further to your piece by Graham Ogilvie, a tidy player in his own right, about his dad Joe, I think Joe played on until 1975 or 76,” recalled Dave.

“I’m originally from Charleston in Dundee, now living in Daventry.

“I played with Joe for the Grey Lodge around about 74-75 in the old Saturday afternoon Angus Amateur league. He was still an amazing player then.

“He always made it look so easy and seemed to have more time than anyone else on the pitch to play his football.

“Some other players playing then were Fraser Gilmartin, Jockie Livie and John James a bull of a centre-forward.

“As the team was Hilltown-based, the after-match Saturday ritual would be a couple of pints or more in the Highwayman, then into town.

“Then a few more beers, then off to the Tay Centre disco.

“There, if you got past Beechwood’s finest door staff Roy and Alec Smart the best tunes in town were played by DJ Charlie Wright.

“These were great times had by all in what seems a lifetime ago.”