Player would not sign for TUFC because ....

Who might this brilliant Scottish footballer have been? I was starting to form the idea that it may have a nineteen-year-old Fifer called Allan Brown, then playing for East Fife. They were quite a team in those days winning the Scottish League Cup on several occasions and, indeed, Brown was capped by Scotland as an East Fife player shortly before being transferred to Blackpool. As we know, he later managed Torquay United.

Unfortunately that theory is in ruins. East Fife didn't win promotion to the top division until 1948.

Then there's Tommy Docherty who was then a young lad on the brink of a glittering career with Preston North End and Scotland. But again not quite. On national service and not yet on the books of Celtic where he didn't quite make it before leaving for PNE.

Or could it have been Lawrie Reilly, then a seventeen-year-old Hibs reserve? Reilly soon became a hit at Easter Road where he was one of the "Famous Five" forward line. He also scored twenty-two times for Scotland.

That'll be the one then. Another who got away. I'm starting the myth here....