1958 FROZEN IN TIME
When Leicester City help kick off the new English Premier League season at Old Trafford on Friday night, there won’t be a single Scot in their side.
Changed days from when they visited Manchester 60 years ago.
On December 6, 1958, a Foxes side assembled by Scottish boss Matt Gillies took to the field with no fewer than five players who were born on the north side of Hadrian’s Wall.
Joe Baillie and Ian King were in defence, Jimmy Walsh was up front and in midfield was Bernie Kelly, who was to get on the scoresheet.
Unfortunately for Leicester and their Auchterarder-born keeper, Davie Maclaren, United hit four in reply through Bobby Charlton, Warren Bradley, Albert Scanlon and Dennis Viollet.
Maclaren was displaced at Filbert Street by the emerging Gordon Banks, and played for Plymouth, Wolves and Southampton before heading for Australia, where he died in 2016.