Recent editions of BwB have featured Montrose FC and this was highlighted by Paul Brownlee, of Menzieshill, Dundee.
Paul said: “I’m a Dundee United fan through and through but Montrose have always been my second team.
“That’s mainly due to both sets of grandparents coming from the Angus town. My grandad William (Wull) Webster, in particular, was a big Gable Endies fan.
“Seeing these articles on Les Barr, Montrose and the like saw me discuss transfer dealings with my friends.
“I maintain when Montrose sold George Falconer, the fee they picked up (from Raith Rovers I think) was a club record.
“Can you confirm these facts are correct?”
Dundonian George Falconer, then just 21, left Montrose for George Farm’s Raith Rovers in May 1967 for a fee of £10,000.
That was by far the biggest fee the Links Park club had ever received.
The nearest to it at the time was £6,000 from Southend for Malcolm Slater and £6,000 from East Stirling for Frank Sandeman and Bobby Kemp.
Montrose provost William Johnston, who was chairman of the club, said at the time: “We would have liked to see George remain at Links Park but it is important that the supporters know he has not been sold for peanuts.
“The decision to let George go was a committee one and only arrived at because of the player himself.
“We would have been standing in his way.”
With Farm leaving Stark’s Park just under two months later for Dunfermline, it’s doubtful if he ever saw George play in a Raith Rovers jersey.
* There was no name attached to the letter, which simply asked: “When Joe Gilroy signed for Dundee from Fulham, what was the fee and who was the Fulham manager?”
The fee was £15,000 and Craven Cottage boss at the time was Bobby Robson, in one of his early managerial appointments.
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