SANDY JARDINE was regarded by many Rangers fans as one of the greatest ever players to wear the Light Blue jersey, and in a tribute to the great full-back the Ibrox club renamed the Govan Stand the Sandy Jardine Stand...

J. H. (Via e-mail) – I seem to remember that in the 1970s, the late, great Rangers full-back Sandy Jardine scored a hat-trick against Airdrie. Am I right?

You are right. Rangers won 6-1 on August 9, 1975. This was a League Cup group match. Sandy scored three goals, two of them from the penalty spot.

Colin Stein, Derek Parlane and Alex Miller got Rangers other goals. Paul Jonquin got Airdrie’s consolation goal from the penalty spot.

Rangers went on to beat Celtic 1-0 in the final, with Alex MacDonald getting the Ibrox club’s goal.

JONNY McKAY (Paisley) – Please provide details of a 3-3 draw between Celtic and St Mirren played around Christmas time in 1977.

Scintillating, dramatic, highly charged and, above all, entertaining, almost 18,000 fans paid £1.50 for the privilege of packing into Love Street on the December 17, 1977, to enjoy one of the old stadium’s classic encounters.

Saints keeper Ally Hunter’s touched the ball for the first time when picking it out of his net in the 8th minute following a rocket from Tom McAdam, however Celtic’s lead would last only three minutes, when Johannes Edvaldsson and Roddy McDonald left an Iain Munro cross to each other and, when neither obliged, Billy Stark gratefully accepted the gift.

Shortly into the second half, the game exploded when Jackie Copland was sent off having been adjudged to have punched Edvaldsson, sparking a huge melee including Saints boss Alex Ferguson who had stormed onto the pitch in anger.

Far from collapsing, however, and spurred on by the perceived injustice, Fergie’s Furies raced into a 3-1 lead thanks to a 69th minute Frank McGarvey goal, and 76th minute thunderbolt from Munro.

The deficit was reduced just three minutes later, however, when Andy Lynch scored a penalty after John Young was penalised for handball and, with just two minutes remaining, Joe Craig bundled a Roy Aitken cross into the net with his knee to secure a point for Jock Stein’s never-say-die Celts.

St Mirren: Hunter, Young, Beckett, Fitzpatrick, Reid, Copland, Munro, Stark, McGarvey, Abercrombie, Hyslop.

Celtic: Latchford, Filippi, Lynch, Edvaldsson, McDonald, Aitken, Doyle, Glavin (Dowie), McAdam, Craig, Conn (Wilson).