I HAVE long held to the belief that when it comes to an in-depth approach to journalism, The Herald is virtually peerless.
Never has the perspicacity been so ably demonstrated, however, than it was in ''Where are they now'' column in last Saturday's Commentator.
Other journals might well have taken the easy way out and simply cited October 23, 1971 - the actual date of THE League Cup Final - as the memory etched in my mind as one of the Jagophiles in attendance on that day of days.
But no! The Herald went a step further, by correctly identifying November 29, 1971, the day when I finally emerged from the world's greatest hangover which followed some marginally over-indulgent celebrations.
Never mind, Thistle only win a major trophy every 50 years - and then only when the Emperor of Japan is in the UK - so you've still 23 more years to go before you have to worry about such trivia again!
Gordon D Peden,
Editor, What A Sensation (Partick Thistle Fanzine).
PS The zine's title came from the immortal words of that doyen of sports, commentators and sports, jackets, Arthur Montford who, at 15:28 that day, greeted Denis McQuade's goal with the words: ''What a sensation! It's three nothing!'' That, after much up going of the heads and stramashes! Sigh! These were the days.
ONE has to admire the way Mr Fergus McCann conducted the Celtic Football Club's AGM.
Considering the venom of a few individuals - and the hope of some of the media, that the AGM would end up in a shambles - the chairman conducted a meeting, which was a lesson in the art of controlling a large group.
When one remembers Mr McCann's fight against the British Airports Authorities taxes on passengers, arriving at Prestwick and Edinburgh airports, it is good to see that he still fights for what he believes in.
I am sure the majority of Scottish football fans appreciate what Mr McCann has achieved for football in general and Celtic in particular, in the few years he has been at Parkhead.
The Cambuslang/Robroyston contingent are now seen, for what they have always been, a group of Walter Mittys.
Iain Morrison,
1 Williamson Street,
Clydebank.
''BRITISH Beattie'' strikes again (September 19)! He was ''moved to tears'' when Jeremy Guscott dropped a goal to prove that four nations together might just be better than South Africa.
Never mind the electric atmosphere that existed at Murrayfield in 1984 or 1990 when Scotland clinched Grand Slams!
The ''British Lions'' should be dead and buried now the Rugby Park World Cup is with us, alongside Beattie's colonial memories of Borneo, and his infamous ''vote no'' to a Scottish Parliament comments.
James Smith,
357 Glasgow Road,
Ralston,
Paisley.
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