HIGHLIGHTS OF a tribute dinner held for St Johnstone’s legendary ex-chairman Geoff Brown can be enjoyed by fans all over again.
The club’s board of directors organised the dinner at the end of last year to celebrate local construction magnate Mr Brown’s contribution and service to the team.
It also honoured more than a quarter of a century’s involvement in Scottish football.
The event was a sell-out and involved contributions by ex-players, associates and colleagues whom Mr Brown had worked with during his chairmanship at Saints.
The evening ended with his being the first name entered in the new St Johnstone Hall of Fame.
The club had organised for local internet TV company PerthshireOnline.TV to film some of the evening’s proceedings, including Mr Brown’s speech and highlights from a number of the other contributors to the event, for the club’s archives.
Some of the highlights have now been made into a DVD.
Chairman Steve Brown said: “The evening was a great success with lots of stories from Geoff’s days as chairman of Saints and we felt that highlights of the event would be great memorabilia for supporters, both locally and those further afield, who perhaps couldn’t make the event.
“The DVD includes all of Geoff’s own speech and snippets from many of the people who contributed to making the evening such a memorable one, including leading names in Scottish football, both past and present.
“We were delighted with the turnout and we hope that the DVD will be one of those keepsakes for all Saints fans.
“It was a special evening for the club, supporters and for Scottish football, and we’re delighted that we have film record of this.”
Gavin Sime, director of PerthshireOnline.TV, said: “The approximate hour-long film by no means covers all the evening’s tributes but we felt that it was something special for fans to have Geoff’s speech and some of the key speeches and comments from well-known local and national figures who attended and had such great tributes to make to Geoff.”
The DVD is available from the shop at McDiarmid Park, from the Saints website saintsonlinestore.co.uk, or by calling the club on 01738 459090.
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