Attitude problem

clubs’ first Premier goals were Drew Busby (Hearts), Joe Harper (Hibs), Kenny Dalglish (Celtic), Johnny Graham (Ayr United), Derek Johnstone (Rangers), Gregor Stevens (Motherwell) and Billy Williamson (Aberdeen).

“The season was to be fateful for Courier Country clubs with St Johnstone and Dundee relegated and

Dundee United and Aberdeen both escaping the drop on goal difference.”

“The article regarding the young man gaining his licence to fly reminds me of when I was in sixth year at school and we visited RAF Hornchurch to be examined for aptitude to flying aeroplanes,” emails Allan Bullions of Leven.

“Two weeks later I received a letter offering me a place in the RAF – which I was inclined to accept until my father, who had spent over five years in the Army, suggested I should give up the idea. His opinion of my attitude to discipline led him to think I would be out of the RAF in a fortnight.” consisting of pensioners, in order to get them chatting and winning sums of money ranging from half-a-crown to, in moments of extravagance, a ten-bob note,” he says.

“Wilfred, who was also a skilled actor, would ask standard questions such as: ‘‘Ave you ever ‘ad an embarrassing moment’ and ‘Are y’courtin’?’

“In later years the travelling pianist was Harry Hudson but, at the start, it was Violet Carson, more famous as Ena Sharples of Coronation Street. At the end of each interview Wilfred would call out: ‘Give ‘im (or ‘er) the money, Mabel!’ (Cue chord from the piano and enthusiastic applause.)”