Dundonian Gordon Norton needs confirmation of a cup final win so he can impress his grandsons.
The game in question was the 1973 Telegraph Cup Final in which St Joseph’s beat Osborne.
Gordon opened: “The reason I ask about the Telegraph Cup report from 1973 is that I don’t really have any cuttings at all from my two seasons in junior football.
“I scored a few goals in that spell and I tell my grandsons that.
“In that particular cup final, I was 17 years old and still at Morgan Academy.
“I scored two goals and I think the Joeys won 4-2 after extra time.
“I’d really appreciate if you could find a report of that game.”
I asked Gordon for a rundown of his football career, and he immediately said his brother is Harry, his elder brother by 15 months.
He continued: “You probably remember Harry as he played with you at Broughty Athletic for two seasons.
“I came to the juniors a year after Harry and played two seasons with the Joeys.
“In that second season, Harry also played for St Joseph’s.”
Gordon, an airport duty manager at Glasgow Airport, continued: “After the Joeys, I went to play for a new works amateur team called PPD, which was run by my friend Johnny Hogg’s father.
“We won consecutive promotion from the Third to the First Division of the Angus Amateurs.
“Harry joined me at PPD for a couple of seasons before we both signed for Riverside Athletic.
“I think I was two seasons at the River before I moved, firstly, to Newcastle in 1980, and then in 1984 to Bishopton, close to Glasgow Airport. Harry had a season at Riverside and a season at Logie Thistle before he moved to Dumfries, then Aberdeen. He now lives in Stonehaven.”
* EACH week, BwB gives a sample from the Readers’ Queries file in the old Sporting Post.
SP Query — On February 7, 1996, ‘James Wilson’ asked: Is Norman Whiteside still the youngest player to play in the World Cup Finals?
If so, who comes next in line?
SP Answer — Yes. He was 17 years 41 days when he played in the 1982 finals in Spain.
Next in line comes Pele (Brazil), 17 years 235 days.
Cameroon’s Rigobert Song is next, turning out when he was just 12 days short of his 18th birthday.
If you have any stories or queries for John, email: jbrown@dctmedia.co.uk
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