From the Kop to the Kelpies: The Alex Totten Story

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I don’t remember a huge deal about the game apart from Paul Wright’s penalty. He was such a good striker of the ball and you’d have put your mortgage on him scoring.

I really enjoyed my time at Falkirk. At the time I went there it was a very well-run club. The secretary was a man called Charlie Taylor, he ran everything day to day and was very experienced.”

Steven Hamilton: There was a lot of talk in the paper about their striker Derek Lilley getting a move down to England so I knew it would be a challenging game. It was a nice day down there and I remember I had a gash on my ankle and I wore these shin guards and they really hurt. United were a really good team that year – the best of the rest in the league and they’d had a bit of success in the transfer market with players from Scandinavia. The last time we had played them in the league we lost 3-2 but we should have had all three points that day. They were a fine team but we weren’t scared of them. It covers his playing career, his life as manager of six clubs and his near-death experience after winning his fight with septicaemia in 2007 and Alex, who still works for his first football love, Falkirk, is thrilled with the outcome. These were heady days for the men from the Fair City and chronicling all of them was my former colleague James Masson, who for 40 years covered Saints day in, day out for the Evening Telegraph.

Get all the latest Sports news sent straight to your Inbox every day by signing up to our newsletter. Roberts, a teenage striker at the time, recalled: “We said: ‘OK, where is it?’ When they told us South Korea, we just p****d ourselves laughing.

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We also beat Rangers 2-1 at Ibrox and although our Premier Division fight went right down to the last day, it gave us confidence. I’m still involved at Falkirk in the commercial department so I see the players every day, and we always have a laugh and a joke. But it had been nothing; handbags at dawn and a difference of opinion from two guys whose only crime was showing a passion for their respective football clubs.

qualified we’d need to stay another week out there – which was the last thing we wanted.” Read More Related Articles In fact, Craig set up Will for another goal on Saturday when we got a good draw down at Queen of the South.Despite being 5000 miles away in an unfamiliar city, Roberts and Co weren’t keen on being cooped up in a hotel room or having ‘rest’ days after games. He said: “We were out every second night, we got blootered. Ally McCoist, a good friend from my time at Rangers, and a former Saint, had just put Rangers two up a minute before half­-time when I gave him both barrels. I felt he had got away with murder earlier on by elbowing our centre­-half John Inglis and I let him know.