ALLAN JOHNSTON had a very brief spell at Rangers but scored against FKB Kaunas and Herfolge BK in Champions League qualifying matches in 2000…

GRANT (Kirkie) – Thinking back to previous Rangers and Hearts games I seemed to recollect a match at Ibrox when a Hearts player scored a hat-trick in a Hearts victory and eventually went on to play for Rangers. I know John Brown did this as a Dundee player, am I confusing the two events as my pals tell me?

No, you are correct as on January 20, 1996, Hearts beat Rangers 3-0 at Ibrox with the three goals being scored by Allan Johnston.

There was suggestions of a move to Ibrox at that time but it took four years before he became a Rangers' player.

He initially moved to Rennes in France then on to the English Leagues before Dick Advocaat brought him to Rangers for season 2000/2001 when he made only a few appearances before moving south again to Middlesbrough in August 2001.

He subsequently came back to Scotland to finish his playing career, in which he gained 18 international caps, before moving into management and he is currently boss at Dunfermline Athletic.

D. McLEOD (Clarkston) – Do you have any info on a 4-0 away victory for Celtic v Rangers sometime in the Sixties?

You may be thinking about a Glasgow Cup game played on August 23, 1966.

The game was played at Ibrox and Celtic ran out 4-0 winners with three goals from Bobby Lennox and an unusual one from the boot of Billy McNeill.

The plaudits on the night, however, went to Bobby Murdoch, revelling in his new role in midfield.

Jock Stein had converted Murdoch from inside-forward and his new position, at half-back, gave him the scope to start playing the long range passes with pin-point accuracy for which he would become justly famous in the years to come.

Coincidentally another player to benefit from a similar role change was Sir Matt Busby, who`s career at Manchester City also blossomed after switching from forward to half back.

GORDON (Dalmuir) – Reminiscing with my pals about the late Johnny Little's career I recollected as a youngster seeing him play in London. This would be around 1959/60 when my dad was there for a job interview and took the family. Do you have any details of which match it might have been? He did not get the job but he always said that the family break on the expenses he got softened the disappointment.

Rangers played Arsenal at Highbury in December 1959, but Johnny Little did not feature in the team, Shearer and Caldow, filling the full-back positions.

So you are most likely to have attended the Inter-League match at Highbury on March 23, 1960, when Johnny was selected at left-back for the Scottish League against the Football League, the Scots losing 1-0 to a late English goal.

The selection was a well deserved reward for Johnny who, after a lean previous season when he made only one league appearance, fought back to secure the left-back position at Rangers, leaving Shearer and Caldow to compete for the other full-back position in 1959/60.