DR JOSEF VENGLOS only spent one season as manager of Celtic after finishing runners-up to Rangers in the 1998-99 Premier League, but he continued to work at the club in a consultancy role...

FROME McLEAN (Paisley) – Give a summary of Jo Venglos’ time as Celtic manager.

Dr Josef Venglos was named Celtic boss on July 17, 1998, over two months after previous boss Wim Jansen had resigned to the dismay of the Celtic fans.

This reflected the fact that he was far from the club’s first choice, with the job having already been offered to Egil Olsen, Tommy Svensson and Gerard Houllier.

Arriving in the midst of a player bonus row and a support who were disgruntled with Fergus McCann and general manger Jock Brown, the appointment was met with derision in the press.

The lateness of the appointment also meant that it would be late September before Venglos would make his first signing, in the form of Norwegian utility man Vidar Riseth, though he would prove to be shrewd in the transfer market, also bringing in Johan Mjallby, Lubo Moravcik and Mark Viduka.

The doctor would suffer another blow, however, when Viduka immediately went AWOL, citing stress, and would not play for the club until mid-February.

In contrast, Rangers boss Dick Advocaat splashed out a reported £36million in bringing in Arthur Numan, Gabriel Amato, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Andrei Kanchelskis, Lionel Charbonnier, Rod Wallace, Daniel Prodan, Colin Hendry, Stephane Guivarc’h, Neil McCann, Stefan Klos, Craig Moore and Claudio Reyna at various points throughout the season.

Despite a 5-1 thrashing of Rangers at Parkhead in November, Rangers were always comfortable in the title race, eventually securing the championship on an infamous night at Celtic Park in May.

Venglos would step down at the end of the season, though remained with the club in a consultancy role.

GEORGE (Dumbreck) – Reading that Bill Struth spotted Ralph Brand playing for Scotland in a Schoolboy International against England at Wembley made me curious about the match. When was the game and did any of his team-mates go on to a senior career?

The game, the second half was televised live, took place on April 5, 1952, at Wembley Stadium with England winning 1-0 before a crowd recorded as 80,312.

Strangely enough it was played at the same time as the senior teams were contesting the annual Home International at Hampden Park, which only had radio coverage.

Soon after, Ralph Brand signed provisional terms with Rangers, where he had a successful career including eight Scotland International caps.

Some of his team-mates also had Senior careers at various levels. Centre-half Doug Baillie joined Airdrieonians, then also moved to Rangers, left-half George Taggart joined Kilmarnock, as did inside right John Lawlor, both going on to have long careers at various league clubs.

Goalkeeper Charles Brodie was capped for Scotland Juniors then signed for Manchester City, where he was understudy to the legendary Bert Trautmann, before moving on to being a success at other clubs including Brentford where he made 199 appearances and was subsequently inducted into their Hall of Fame.

Left-half and captain of England Schools was Duncan Edwards, who went on to fame with Manchester United and England.

This Scottish team hopefully might remind some of the players or relatives of their day of fame and where others' careers took them.

C Brodie (Clydebank), I McMillan (Ayrshire), H Neil (Ayrshire), J King (Midlothian), D Baillie (Lanarkshire), G Taggart (Glasgow), R Brand (Edinburgh), J Lawlor (Motherwell), J Irvine (Lanarkshire), D Dunsmuir (Ayrshire), and J. Armour (Glasgow).