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Queen`s Park goalie vs. Rangers 25/9/1944 was Jimmy Steadward NOT Bobby Brown - sorry!

Very sad to hear about Bobby Brown. He made his Queen`s Park debut vs.Celtic @ Parkhead in a 4-4 wartime league game on 13th April 1940 aged just 16yrs 25days. He was more or less QP`s regular `keeper intil 1942 when he joined the Royal Navy making sporadic appearances at Hampden until sharing goalk...

Glasgow Cup book with all games, almost all teams, dates, officials, venues now available as follows: Forward £9 plus £1.80 (made payable) to John Litster at 38 Lowther Road, Norwich, NR4 6QW, or you can pay by Bank Transfer (details below), Paypal, but please note that any charges imposed by Paypal...

If you can haud oan, I`ve a Glasgow Cup book coming out soon.

When Queen`s Park beat Manchester AC 15-0 in an English Cup tie on 1st December 1883, Charles Campbell, Eadie Fraser, Willie Anderson, David Allan, Dr.John Smith, Bob Christie & Willie Harrower all scored. While Queen`s regualarly battered opponents by double figures in the 19thC the poor hacks on t...

Jimmy Gilmour, Queen`s Park`s winger, made a substitute appearance for Scotland`s semi professional side vs. England on 4th June 1983; an amateur of course.

Slightly off piste, this thread reminded me of Shoto Arveladze who collected cup winners medals in 4 countries - he was in Dynamo Tblisi`s Georgian Cup winning sides of 1992 and 1993, Trabzonspor`s Turkish winning side of 1995, Ajax Amsterdam`s in 1999 and in Rangers` 2002 & 2003 winning sides. Did ...

The news you`ve all been waiting for! The new edition of THE MEN WITH THE EDCUCATED FEET a statistical and pictorial history of the Queen`s Park Football Club to celebrate the Club`s 150th anniversary is available from Queen`s Park FC., Hampden Park, Leatherby Drive, Glasgow G42 9BA(attention of Chr...

West of Scotland Football Club played Edinburgh Academicals Football Club on 15th November 1867 when the differences between the handlers` version of football and the dribblers` was infinitesimal eg. Queen`s Park(by then 4 months old) played games with anything between 10 and 16 a side and their rec...

Missed out two other possible fixtures predating the Rangers vs. Dumbarton game; Queen`s Park scratched to Oxford University in the semi finals of the FA Cup in the Spring of 1873 and, as there is still a University Football Club, that`s still on the cards and on 21st March 1874 Queen`s beat Clydesd...

In November 1871, Queen`s Park were due to play Donington School in the 1st Round of the new Football Association Challenge Cup in Glasgow but the pair couldn`t agree a date so both, as per the rules at the time, progressed into the 2nd Round when, again no convenient date could be found due to it b...

Queen`s Park beat Rangers 4-0 in the first Merchants Charity Cup Final @ 1st Hampden Park on 28th April 1877.

Does anyone have details(teams, venues, referees) for Scotland`s 2 World Cup Finals warm up games in Los Angeles in May 1986?(Ah, how nostalgic - "World Cup Finals warm up games", eh? - sigh!). Also Scottish League substitutes, the Scotland team(& subs) and referee for the SFL`s centenary match @ Ha...

Can anyone help me here re officials in Scotland`s 19thC unofficial games? I`m looking for the following: vs. ENGLAND: umpires & referee 5/3/1870, referee 9/11/1870, umpires & referee 18/11/1871 & umpires & referee 24/2/1872 vs. CANADA: umpires 19/9/1888, umpires & referee 3/10/1891. For the first t...