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FOOTBALL SPECIAL Early Evening Edition - Every Monday - 6d SPOTLIGHT ON… Sir Matt Busby One of Scotland’s greatest managers, Sir Matt Busby was born in Orbiston, Bellshill, in Lanarkshire. Like Shankly and Stein, Busby came from a coalmining community and worked down the pit in his youth but his prowess at football marked him out for a career in the professional game. He made his name with Manchester City, where he would win the FA Cup in 1934 and was capped for Scotland, before moving on to Liverpool. Busby was with the Anfield club when the Second World War broke out. After the war he accepted the post of manager at Manchester United and started work to rebuild the fortunes of the club. United won the FA Cup in 1948 and a brilliant youth policy helped Matt to mould a team which would become legendary as the ‘Busby Babes’. Three League titles followed but tragedy struck in 1958 as Manchester United returned from a European tie. The Munich air disaster killed 23 people, including eight players, and almost claimed the life of Matt. Slowly he rebuilt the team once more, winning the FA Cup in 1963 and the League in 1965 and 1967. His greatest victory came in 1968 when, 10 years on from Munich, his team defeated Benfica 4-1 at Wembley to win the European Cup. 1970 Scotland 0 England 0 Stalemate in front of huge crowd This fixture doesn’t normally witness 0-0 draws. The last time both sides failed to score was at the first international match back in 1872. A massive crowd was expected and the fans duly obliged, the Hampden turnstiles recording an attendance of 137,438. For Scotland, missing a few regular Tommy Gemmell, Billy Dickson and Colin Stein line up before players, it gave manager Bobby Brown an the start of the game opportunity to introduce younger players; Billy Dickson, John O’Hare and Davie Hay were amongst those who started. For England, who now look forward to the World Cup in Mexico, Bobby Charlton was the most notable absence from a side also missing a few familiar faces. The Scots controlled the midfield for large parts of the game and put in a decent performance. There were no less than three penalty appeals. Two involved Colin Stein who was brought down in the first half by Brian Labone and in the second by Nobby Stiles. The third was a possible handball by Bobby Moore. On each occasion, however, West German referee Gerhard Schulenburg waved away the appeals of the Scottish players. Geoff Hurst was denied a goal for off-side but Sir Alf Ramsey viewed his team as being ‘fortunate’ to come away with a draw. TEAM OF THE WEEK HIBERNIAN FC This picture was taken in January 1965 when Jock Stein was still manager at Easter Road. Although only at the club for a short time, Stein revitalised Hibs as a force within Scottish football and his successor, Bob Shankly, continued to build a team that was exciting to watch. By the early 1960s, there were some brilliant young players emerging in the first team, including Pat Stanton, Peter Cormack and Colin Stein. Joe Baker’s transfer in 1961 was a big loss but experienced players were introduced and talented stars in the form of Willie Hamilton and Pat Quinn brought skill and attacking flair to the club. Hibs had some memorable European adventures in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup during this period and took some big scalps. In 1961 Hibs drew 4-4 with Barcelona in Camp Nou before winning the return leg 3-2 in Edinburgh. They reached the semi-final of the competition and were drawn with AS Roma. Hibs tied on aggregate with the Italian giants before finally succumbing to them in a play-off match. In 1967 the Easter Road side defeated top Portuguese side FC Porto and were drawn against Napoli. Although they lost the first leg 4-1, an incredible return leg in Edinburgh saw Hibs win 5-0. They narrowly went out in the next round, going down 2-1 on aggregate to Leeds United. THE JUNIORS 1972 SCOTTISH JUNIOR CUP Two in a row for Cambuslang Bonnyrigg edged out 3-2 by the Lang Cambuslang are making a bit of a habit of claiming the biggest prize in Junior football. This was their third Scottish Junior Cup victory in just four years and their second in succession but their opponent, Bonnyrigg Rose, will feel hard done by having led 2-1 with just six minutes to go. The decisive moment, late in the game, was the sending off of Begbie, Bonnyrigg’s centre-half, for a second bookable offence. Two late goals followed, the winner coming from the penalty spot, to dramatically swing the match in favour of Cummings of Cambuslang gets past Bonnyrigg’s Young the Lanarkshire men. It was Cambuslang who drew first blood, John Cummings neatly lobbing Ferguson in the Bonnyrigg goal after 33 minutes. The lead held for just six minutes as a header from Ford found the back of the net and with seconds remaining till half-time, McIvor popped up to give the Rose a dramatic lead. The 2-1 score- line in favour of the Rose stood for most of the second half and as the seconds ticked away the Midlothian side must have thought that the trophy would be heading east. Begbie’s dismissal and the resultant free-kick quickly changed matters. McCallum stepped up and his shot went in off the post. With three minutes to go Hume deliberately punched a goal bound shot and Brown stepped up to score the winner from the spot. This week’s theme is Scottish place names. Each surname QUIZ includes the title of a Scottish village, town or city 1) Famous manager of Liverpool 2) Scottish Cup winner with Dunfermline in 1961 who went on to captain Aberdeen 3) Motherwell’s Scottish Cup winning captain from 1952 4) Centre Forward who started with St Mirren in 1938, won the Scottish League with Hibs in 1948 & ended his career with Morton in 1955 Question 7 5) Outside Right who won the Scottish Cup with Dunfermline in 1961 6) Brilliant Celtic winger who went on a boat trip at Largs in 1974 7) Winger named Gus who played for Motherwell in the second half of the 1960s 8) Talented forward who appeared for Hibs and Hearts in the 1960s Question 8 9) Forward with Dundee Utd & Middlesbrough who was a Scottish Cup runner-up with Hearts in 1968 10) England international winger who played for Blackburn Rovers from 1952 to 1969 11) Half-Back named Willie who played for St Johnstone, St Mirren & Dunfermline in the 1960s 12) Scotland international defender who won two League Cups with Dundee in the 1950s Answers to the quiz can be found at the end Based on players, clubs or locations that can be WORD SEARCH found in today’s Football Special B O N N Y R I G G R O S E W G J E K Z T O N J O C K S T E I N W N K Q T M B U A N P Y O W C U W Z O F H E I B M O A Q M L S U W H T V A D W F N U K B S I E T D A S T Y S N Y P N M X F S E U A K L R T F N X N C B C E E S T B H Y J L R P S Q B C C N D S Y U P T D W T U U I O C W C V U J H F K A O M R E S G W R S V B E M S E S Y E W K T L M Z R A X W S Q L G L E H N B D S C J E W I U C D V N T A S A O K I R Y B T R B R A N T O O H C J I K S N R B Y I B E V U Q X G F R K L X V A H K A G E E T O R P S L G S S M R H I E N C S H M R T O P U C B Z R R U A W N U N A M A L W N A P S N R Y O H E W C C D H E S J O M P I B N R I C B I U Q X K Y E R V B T U N P A M L G T E A V N E T S A C G Z Y W E I G N B K F E L B N I T W I L L I E H A M I L T O N P D R E R K R U P A T S T A N T O N D S U G I V S A R E F D S G U N I C S O M P W Z F H W Y C MATT BUSBY / BUSBY BABES / COLIN STEIN / GEOFF HURST / CAMP NOU / JOCK STEIN CAMBUSLANG RANGERS / MANCHESTER UNITED / PETER CORMACK / WILLIE HAMILTON PAT STANTON / HIBERNIAN / BONNYRIGG ROSE / JOHN CUMMINGS / BARCELONA 1) Bob Paisley 2) Harry Melrose 3) Willie Kilmarnock 4) Alec Linwood QUIZ 5) George Peebles 6) Jimmy Johnstone 7) Gus Moffat 8) Willie Hamilton ANSWERS 9) Jim Irvine 10) Bryan Douglas 11) Willie Renton 12) Doug Cowie Footba ll Memories Scotland is a partnership between Alzheimer Scotland & the Scottish Football Museum .