SCOTLAND take on Lithuania on Saturday in a World Cup qualifier and they will be looking to get a similar result when the sides met at Hampden in a European Championships qualifier in 2007…

JOHN (Kings Park) – The forthcoming match with Lithuania and the recent banning of a Hearts player for simulation reminded me of a previous meeting with Lithuania. If my memory serves me right a Lithuanian player who was a Hearts player at the time, was banned retrospectively by Uefa for the same offence. Am I correct?

The match you refer to was a Euro 2008 qualifier at Hampden Park on September 8, 2007.

Scotland were a goal in front at the break, but Lithuania levelled with a penalty awarded when Saulius Mikoliunas, then of Hearts, went down under a challenge from Darren Fletcher.

Mikoliunas subsequently received a two-match from Uefa for simulation. Scotland went on to win the game 3-1.

RONALD MASON (Erskine) – Can you name the teams and scorers of the England v Scotland game in 1959 and the teams and scorers for the following year’s match?

11/4/59 – England 1 Scotland 0 (att. 98,329) at Wembley, scorer Charlton (penalty).

England – Hopkinson, Howe and Shaw, Clayton, Wright, Flowers, Douglas, Broadbent, Charlton, Haynes and Holden.

Scotland – Brown, Duncan Mackay, Caldow, Docherty, Evans, Dave Mackay, Leggat, Collins, Herd, Dick and Ormond.

9/4/60 – Scotland 1 England 1 (att. 129,783) at Hampden, scorers Leggat for Scotland and Charlton (penalty) for England.

Scotland – Haffey, Duncan Mackay and Caldow, Cumming, Evans and McCann, Leggat, Young, St John, Law, Weir.

England – Springet, Armfield, Wilson, Clyton, Slater, Flowers, Connelly, Broadbent, Baker, Parry, Charlton.

LAURA (Newlands) I read with interest your question last week on Scotland’s Women’s team success and their game against Iceland in 1981. It made me wonder when the first Women’s International match was played. Can you help?

Amazingly the first International was played between Scotland and England on May 7, 1881.

The English team was drawn mostly from Lizzie Gilbert’s Juvenile Ballet Troupe whereas the Scotland side came for the most part from the house company of the Princess’s Theatre (now known as the Citizen’s) .

E.S. BLOFELD – I am told there was a player called James Bond who played for Queen of the South in the late 1950s. Is this correct?

Absolutely correct. James E. Bond made one appearance for “The Doonhamers” in season 1958/59 and scored one goal.

Previous clubs had included Carlisle United, Manchester United and Preston North End.

Can't tell you much about his subsequent career as the rest of the file is marked “Top Secret”.

Incidentally, the middle initial “E” stood for E.R.N.I.E.

Strange but true.