Sports Guest Announcement - Dave Mckay

[showmasters]

We are pleased to announce our latest guest for the sports zone at Collectormania London.

 

DAVE MCKAY

 

David Craig Mackay is a former Scottish footballer and football manager. He represented Scotland at schoolboy level, won four caps at under-23 level and 22 full caps. He also played three times for the Scottish Football League representative side. He tied with Tony Book of Manchester City for the Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year award in 1969 and was recently listed among the Football League 100 Legends.

 

Mackay was born in Edinburgh, and began his playing career with the club he supported as a boy, Heart of Midlothian. He won all three Scottish Domestic honours with the club. He captained the side in 1957-58 when they broke the senior British league goal scoring record with 132 goals for with only 29 against. He was signed by Tottenham Hotspur for £32,000 in March 1959.

 

[Count Fooku]

I'm not a Spurs fan but this is a good guest

[SirBill61]

Great guest - really pleased. His surname is spelt Mackay though.

More sports people please.

[18blue78]

Even though I'm not a Spurs fan I got the chance to meet Dave MacKay a while ago, and a great person he is to have as a guest. After I'd got his autograph I got chatting to his wife and she told me Dave actually hates the above picture of him, even though it's probably his most famous image. She said he feels it makes him look like a thug.

 

I love the photo myself. To me it represents a time when football was played by real men, not the pre-madonna's that play the game nowadays.

I expect a Spurs fan to put me straight on this, but if I remember rightly, the reason for the 'altercation' was because Billy Bremner had just put in a bad tackle on Dave after the Spurs man had only just recovered from a broken leg that had threatened to end his career. Quite within his rights Mr MacKay had a few words to exchange with Mr Bremner.

 

The good news is even though Dave dislikes the photo he was signing copies of it for anyone that asked. As I mentioned before, a real nice gent.

[tj wildfire]

The Iron Man himself.

The man is also a legend to anyone who supports Derby County.

 

I was trying to work out what the ultimate Derby County eleven would look like, this is what i have so far:

 

Peter Shilton

 

Mark Wright

Tony Dorigo

Dave Mackay

Paul McGrath

Igor Stimac

 

Ted McMinn

Asanovic ?

Stefano Eranio ?

 

Paul Goddard

Dean Saunders

 

I`m not sure about the midfield but i reckon if i get it sorted that is a dream team that could win the premier league.

[Count Fooku]

Ha ha for a moment there I thought you said a team with Dean Saunders in could win the Premiership!

[Flibble]

The Iron Man himself.

The man is also a legend to anyone who supports Derby County.

 

I was trying to work out what the ultimate Derby County eleven would look like, this is what i have so far:

 

Peter Shilton

 

Mark Wright

Tony Dorigo

Dave Mackay

Paul McGrath

Igor Stimac

 

Ted McMinn

Asanovic ?

Stefano Eranio ?

 

Paul Goddard

Dean Saunders

 

I`m not sure about the midfield but i reckon if i get it sorted that is a dream team that could win the premier league.

 

Ah...I have very fond memories of Tony Dorigo when he played for Chelsea....