Trophies galore as Sunday association prepares awards

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THIS is a truly amazing photo from the mid-1980s.

It shows Dundee Sunday Welfare AFA match secretary Jim Don with array of trophies and medals.

This was an annual order to satisfy the demand for member clubs who are league champions and taking part in cup finals.

The camera shot actually was not big or wide enough to get all the trophies in the photo.

Jim spent many years as a player and official with the Sunday afternoon association, and watched it quickly grow from just a solitary division to an amazing five in a matter of a few years.

I’ve been speaking to Jim and will share his tales over the coming weeks.

If you have a photo or a memory of the Welfare League, send it to jbrown@ dctmedia.co.uk

FOOTBALLERS, managers and staff are always sought for quotes by the media. I’m continuing to share some with you.

Former Rangers owner and chairman David Murray, in November 2008, speaking about his club’s online critics.

He said: “I identified some of those guys.

“I then met them – and they were like mice!”

THE transfer window, which features twice in a season, brings with it the usual array of rumours.

And it is on that theme that Andy Walker recalls being in the company of one of Celtic’s greatestever players.

He said: “The last time I was in the presence of the late, great Jimmy Johnstone was when I was present for a cheque presentation in The

Black Bull pub in Uddingston.

“The cause was the Motor Neurone Disease, which, sadly, Jimmy suffered from.

“Two cheques totalling over £10,000 were handed to his ‘minders’ John Fallon and Dixie Deans, both, of course,

Dundee Sunday Welfare AFA match secretary Jim Don surrounded by the mountain of trophies and medals purchased for the association’s end-of-season awards.