Each week, BwB gives a sample from the Readers’ Queries file in the old Sporting Post.
SP Query — How many times did Willie Donachie play for Scotland and when was his last cap? Did he win any cup medals with Manchester City? — LG.
SP Answer — Donachie won 35 caps and made his last appearance for Scotland as a second-half substitute for Frankie Gray against Portugal in Lisbon on November 29, 1978.
Team — Rough; Kennedy, Gray (Donachie); Narey, McQueen, Buchan; Dalglish, Hartford, Jordan (Wallace), Gemmill, Robertson.
Donachie won a League Cup winners’ medal when City beat Newcastle 2-1 in the 1976 final.
He was also in the team which lost 2-1 to Wolves in the 1974 final of the same competition.
* SP Query — Could you give the following information on Dundee’s Duncan Lambie — where and when born, how tall, any brothers or sisters, previous clubs, if married, where does he live. — Two Dundee Fans.
SP Answer — Duncan was born in Whitburn on April 20, 1952.
He is 5 ft 10 in and has two brothers, one of which is St Johnstone right-back John.
Duncan, who is single, played for Whitburn Secondary School and had a spell on Falkirk’s groundstaff and was provisionally signed for Hibs before joining Dundee from Armadale Thistle.
(Sadly, Duncan died in 2015.)
* SP Query — Can you give Geordie Dewar’s appearances and goals for East Fife and details of the times he scored three or more goals in one game? — East Fifer.
SP Answer — Between 1960-1970, Dewar played 335 league and cup games for East Fife and scored 196 goals.
His hat-trick — and better — record was . . .
Three v Brechin (a), August 26, 1961.
Four v Arbroath (h), August 30, 1961.
Three v Albion Rovers (h), September 4, 1961.
Three v East Stirling (a), March 10, 1962.
Four v Edinburgh University (h), January 12, 1963.
Three v Stirling Albion (h), October 19, 1963.
Six v Alloa Athletic (h), November 2, 1963.
* SP query — Did Jock Gilmour ever play for Dundee United? — F. A., Dundee.
SP answer — A knee injury ended his Dundee career in 1936 but, in 1938, he signed for Dundee United for one game in a cup-tie against East Fife at Bayview on February 12 when United were beaten 5-0.
Gilmour had taken over from Bert Grieve, who had his registration cancelled that week.
Dundee United — Nicholson; Collington, Gilmour; Skelligan, Watson, Yorke; Hutchison, Clarkson, Rumbles, Robertson, Adamson.
East Fife — Milton; Laird, Tait; Russell, Sneddon, Herd; Adams, McLeod, McCartney, Miller, Henderson.
- Some statistics may have been altered after being published.
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