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Giovanni di Stefano presents a gift to the Scottish media on becoming a director at Dundee in August 2003.

The memento read: “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

But no gesture could have kept di Stefano out of the headlines. The SFA refused to confirm his appointment because the English/ Italian was a convicted fraudster (the bogus lawyer was later jailed for 14 years for money-laundering) and he resigned from Dens board in January 2004. If German club St Pauli are willing to pay £ 200,000 for Wi l l ie Pettigrew’s scoring talents, I wonder how much they would be prepared to cough up for Vic Davidson on this performance.

Ex- Celt Vic turned this Anglo Scottish Cup tie into a personal rout – slamming in f ive goals himself and laying on one for new boy Ian Purdie with a tremendous 30-yard pass.

I can’t remember if he featured in Pettigrew’s main contribution – a 25- yard low shot into the corner of the net – but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did.

Dav idson’s goa ls were accumulated like this – a neatlyplaced 12-yard drive, a brilliant solo effort, a penalty after he had SUNDAY MAIL, AUG 07, 1977 Each week we take a step back in time and give you a match report from a game of yesteryear been fouled by McGarry, an 18-yard cracker and finally a cute overhead flick. In between we had a fine debut goal for ex-Dundee man Purdie.