ON THIS DAY

Brechin City beat Hamilton Academical 2-1 in a Scottish Cup 4th Round replay in front of 696 hardy fans at their Glebe Park ground to set themselves up with an attractive 5th Round tie at Aberdeen - or so they thought! It then emerged that Brechin had fielded Michael Paton who was signed on loan from Aberdeen after the first match between Hamilton and Brechin was played on January 12th and so was ineligible to play in the replay. For that infringement of the rules the tie was ordered to be replayed and Brechin were fined £10,000. Then is was discovered that another member of the team - Willie Dyer who was recently signed from St Johnstone - hadn't been eligible to play in the replay for the same reason. For that Brechin were kicked out of the Scottish Cup. It's important to know the rules!

A Scottish Cup result that the Scotsman newspaper described as ' the most ludicrous, the weirdest, the most astonishing result ever returned in Scottish football'. Scottish Second Division side Berwick Rangers - who had their home in England - beat mighty Glasgow Rangers in a First Round tie. A record Shielfield Park crowd of 13,365 witnessed an amazing 1-0 victory for Berwick with Sammy Reid scoring the deciding goal. Berwick's player-manager that day - goalkeeper Jock Wallace - set a unique record in 1966/67 by playing in that Scottish Cup match after having played earlier in the season for Hereford United in both the English and Welsh FA Cups. He later went on to manage Glasgow Rangers.

Amazingly on this day in 1961 Denis Law scored 6 goals for Manchester City in an FA Cup tie against Luton Town - but still was to finish on the losing side!