PAT STANTON is remembered mostly for his long career with Hibernian, making nearly 400 appearances for the club.

On leaving the Edinburgh outfit in 1976, he moved to Celtic, where he won the Scottish Cup and the league championship...

JOE (Parkhead) - My mate says that Pat Stanton's first game for Celtic was against Rangers. Is he right?

He is correct. Pat made his debut for Celtic on Saturday, September 4, 1976, at Celtic Park against Glasgow rivals Rangers.

Rangers led 2-0 at the interval with goals from Johnstone and Parlane, but two second-half goals from Paul Wilson earned the Celts a draw.

BLAIR EASTON (Cardross) - With all the talk nowadays of modern-day footballers suffering from fatigue due to the number of games they have to play, can you shed any light on a time when, due to a backlog of games, they were crammed together in order to finish the league programme by its scheduled date?

You are probably referring to during the First World War when, in April, 1917, many clubs agreed to play two games in the one day in order to complete the fixture list.

In fact, on April 21, 1917, with a 3.30pm kick-off, Rangers were defeated by three goals to one at Douglas Park, Hamilton.

In the evening at Ibrox, Rangers beat Queen's Park 1-0, with the Spiders already having beaten Partick Thistle by 2-0 in the afternoon.

Both of Rangers' games attracted crowds of 7,000. Seven players, namely Lock, Manderson, Blair, Lawson, Cairns, Bowie and Anderson, turned out for the Light Blues in both games.

STUART (Maryhill) - I was saddened to hear of the death of Sandy Brown, formerly of Partick Thistle and Everton. Didn't he once score a spectacular headed own goal in a Merseyside derby?

HE DID indeed. On December 6, 1969, Everton hosted Liverpool in a league game.

A cross came in from the left, and Sandy, probably trying to head behind for a corner, proceeded in sending a diving header into his own net.

Liverpool won 3-0. The other goals were scored by Emlyn Hughes and Bobby Graham.

Everton would, however, go on to win the league championship that season.

JOHN (Spiderman) - Andrew Robertson and Paul Paton, two of Dundee United's stars who will play in the Scottish Cup final on May 17, are ex-Queen's Park players. Am I right in thinking that one of their opponents in the final also played for the Spiders?

Yes, we believe Michael O'Halloran played at Queen's Park as a boy. Michael senior was a youth coach at Hampden and he brought young Michael in.

As a youth, the forward moved to Celtic before signing for Bolton Wanderers.

Like Andrew Robertson and Paul Paton, Michael experienced the Queen's Park way.

Other players to share that experience include:

Aiden McGeady (Celtic), Neill Collins (Sheffield Utd), Steven Saunders (Motherwell and Ross County), Barry Douglas (Dundee Utd and Lech Poznan), Paul Cairney (Hibernian), Stuart Kettlewell (Ross County), Lawrence Shankland (Aberdeen) and Aidan Connolly (Dundee Utd).