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Johnny Mackenzie


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Staying with my " Glasgow aunt" in Shhakespeare Street aged 14 I was taken to Firhill on Christmas Day 1948. On the way along the canal bank the lads tspoke in glowing terms of their new winger. " Just wait till you see him!" And John Erchie did not let us down. The opponents were Morton, then a force in the land with three Scottish internationals, including Jimmy Cowan whose heroics at Wembley a few weeks later helped Scotland to gain a 3 -1 victory.

In the second half John Erchie sped down the wing towards the Ruchill End and delivered whaat was then called a "daisy cutter" across the Morton penalty aea, where their finehalff back Billy Campbell desperately sliced the ball into his own net Thistle 1 Mrton0. Happy days, happy memories. Bi sinn gad ionndrain a Sheonaidh

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