CELTIC have won the League Championship on 48 occasions, with one of their most nail-biting wins coming in 1986 when they pipped Hearts to the title on goal difference…

DEREK THE JAMBO – When Celtic won the League title on the last day of the season in 1986, they pipped Hearts by the narrowest of margins. Am I right in saying Celtic had failed to beat Hearts on any occasion that season?

Quite correct. The teams had met four times in the league in season 85/86 and the results were as follows:

August 10, 1985: Hearts 1 Celtic 1.

October 12, 1985: Celtic 0 Hearts 1.

December 14, 1985: Hearts 1 Celtic 1.

February 22, 1986: Celtic 1 Hearts 1.

Four tight games with Hearts taking five points to Celtic's three (two points for a win).

On the final day of the campaign Hearts led Celtic by two points.

Celtic won the last game of the season 5-0 against St Mirren and on the same day Hearts lost 2-0 against Dundee.

Both teams finished with 50 points and Celtic won the league with a goal difference of +29 against Hearts’ +26.

The teams did not meet in either of the cup competitions but Hearts did have the added disappointment of losing 3-0 to Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup Final.

ALEX GIBB (Govan) – The first football match my mum took me to was Rangers v St Johnstone in December 1973. A Christmas treat. The Gers won 5-1. What was the Rangers line-up, and who scored the goals?

The Rangers team was McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, Johnstone, Smith, Young, Forsyth, Parlane, Conn and MacDonald.

Their goalscorers were Conn, Young, MacDonald, Parlane and Smith. Muir got the consolation goal for Saints.

GEORGE (Burnbank) – All the talk of last-gasp goals for Scotland in the recent Word Cup qualifiers had my Grandad regaling us about "Last Minute" Reilly. How did he attain this nickname?

Laurie Reilly was a member of Hibs' famous five forward line but he gained that tag as a Scotland player.

In the 1952/53 Home International competition Ireland were leading Scotland by a single goal at Hampden in November 1952 when Reilly equalised with the last kick of the match, there being no time to kick-off.

He upstaged this at Wembley in April 1953 in the final game of the competition when Scotland were down to 10 men, Sammy Cox having left the field injured, and trailing England 2-1.

There was no formal added time then but the referee allowed a few minutes to compensate for the delay in Cox having to be stretchered off, and to the delight of the huge number of Scottish fans packing the stadium, Reilly took advantage of the additional minutes to fire home and level the match 2-2 and ensure his place in Scottish International folklore.