From great games to the game's greats. If you have a query concerning Scottish football, this is the place to send it to. We'll answer as many as we can but regret that we cannot respond individually to requests. So bookmark this site and look in regularly as questions and answers are frequently updated.

Q Why SFAQs? What does that mean?

A FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) can be found on many websites, mostly relating to technical matters and SFA stands for (amongst other things) Scottish Football Association. So a neat amalgamation of acronyms gives us SFAQs which means Scottish Football Answers (to) Questions.

The SFA is constructing a Hall of Fame. Here's a few of the all-time greats we'd like to see in it.

JIM BAXTER

ALAN MORTON

BILLY McNEILL

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JIMMY McGRORY in typical goalscoring fashion. British football's most prolific striker is a contender for the Hall of Fame

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Q Leslie Horne asks: “Last Saturday all 4 Fife senior teams won. Can you tell me when in the past this has happened?”

A You have to go back to October 28th 2000 for the last Fife foursome. Dunfermline beat Dundee 1-0 at East End Park in the SPL. In the First Division, Raith Rovers won 2-1 away to Inverness Caley Thistle. And in the Third, East Fife had a 3-1 triumph over Montrose at home while Cowdenbeath took the points with a 3-2 victory at Elgin.

There was a 100% Fife success rate on February 23rd this year when Raith hammered Falkirk 5-1 at Starks Park, East Fife edged East Stirling 1-0 at home and Cowdenbeath won 2-0 at Hamilton. There were no SPL fixtures as it was Scottish Cup quarter-final day so Dunfermline, having lost at Ayr in the previous round, didn’t have a match.

Q From Tom McInally: Who were the Celtic goalscorers in the 1958 league cup final against Rangers? Was the McNeill scorer, Billy the later Celtic captain?

A Billy McPhail, not McNeill, scored a hat-trick in the famous 7-1 victory in the League Cup Final on October 19th 1957 in front of a crowd at 82,293 at Hampden. Neilly Mochan grabbed two and Sammy Wilson and Willie Fernie with a spot-kick were the other scorers.

The line-up in the Final was: Beattie, Donnelly, Fallon, Fernie, Evans, Peacock, Tully, Collins, McPhail, Wilson, Mochan

Billy McNeill signed for Celtic in August 1957 but didn't make his first-team debut until the following season.


Q “How many goals did Alan Brazil score for Scotland?”, asks Tony Scott

A Just one. Brazil played thirteen times for Scotland (eleven while with Ipswich, two with Spurs) and it was in his twelfth appearance that he struck the second in a 2-0 win over Wales at Ninian Park in 1983.

Other than Ipswich and Tottenham, he also played for Man Utd, Coventry and QPR before a back injury forced him into premature retirement at the age of just 27.

He made his Scotland debut shortly before his 21st birthday when he replaced Joe Jordan at half-time in Poland in 1980 and his final appearance was against England just four days after his goal against Wales. Scotland were beaten 2-0. Brazil was still only 23 at the time of his final cap.

His international outings gave rise to one of the best ‘trick’ questions in football: Which country holds the record for the longest pass in a match? The answer being Scotland when the ball travelled all the way from Jordan to Brazil!