Bert Paton

Bert Paton, one of the 68 Scottish Cup winning team, was also delighted to be honoured by having his photograph chosen for fixing to the walls although he claimed that it did make him feel old:-

"It is nice to see these big photographs, there are some beauties and there are some great memories there. The fans will enjoy seeing them because they always like to tell stories about this player and that player, how good he was or how bad he was."

Bert was a player at Dunfermline as well as being the manager from 1993 until 1999 but he said that there was no doubt that playing for Dunfermline was the better role:-

"You only have to worry about yourself but when you are a manager you are worried about everybody even Willie and Kevin the groundsmen!"

The match that Bert holds up as his most memorable was a 5-4 defeat to Celtic at East End Park.

"They scored in the last minute with a penalty when a certain Mr Barry punched the ball out. He had little option. It was the most exciting that I ever played in.

"I go to a health club on a Tuesday and they are all old boys there. That`s what they talk about, the atmosphere at those games. It was a novelty then because it was just starting. Dunfermline were in Europe in the early sixties and it was a big big thing then. They talk about the buses queued back from East End Park back to Crossgates.

It was a great time to be here as a young boy. We had Willie Callaghan, Alex Edwards, Jimmy Thomson, John Lunn, Tom Callaghan - all these young boys coming through together. Charlie Dickson and George Peebles were great heroes of ours but they also taught us quite a bit. How to look after ourselves, what kind of club you were playing for and we had to pass that on as we got a bit older.

"There have been some great characters over the years. Some brilliant boys and the stories are endless when we get together. The sixties were fantastic days and I don`t think we will ever see it again here. I would love to think so but the game is so different now."