A Scottish man is looking to trace a Scouse lorry driver who gave him a very special gift more than four decades ago.
Allan Hamilton, who lives in Edinburgh but is originally from Glasgow, wants to find the Liverpool man who gave him a 1978 European Cup Final ticket signed by Kenny Daglish. The match saw Liverpool FC beat Club Brugge at Wembley Stadium 1-0.
The now 58-year-old said his dad Andy worked at Clyde Container Services (CCS) which mainly transported whisky and this is where he met the Scouse delivery driver who would then transport it to the city to be shipped.
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Allan said the lorry driver soon found out that as well as being a Rangers fan like his dad he was also a big Reds fan and would bring him back gifts when he visited Scotland. Speaking to the ECHO, Allan said: "There were a lot of Liverpool lorry drivers who would come up, and they would mainly be picking up a lot of whisky and taking it back to Liverpool where it was get shipped out for the overseas market, mainly the Americans.
"This chap, in particular, this Scouse lorry driver who was a big Liverpool fan himself, got to know I was a big Liverpool fan myself and he used to drop off memorabilia whenhe had maybe been to a match or bought a programme or something." One of the gifts given to Allan was a 1977 European Cup final programme but it was the ticket signed by the gift Kenny Dalglish the he described as "gobsmacking".
Allan added: "Not only did I get the programme but he gave me the ticket against Bruges. It was Liverpool v Bruges down at Wembley and Kenny Dalglish scored the only goal of the game that night to win the match for Liverpool. "Right across the ticket Kenny Dalglish has signed it. What I found out was the lorry driver in question went to the match with no less than Kenny Dalglish's father-in-law."
He added: "That's how they have managed to get access to the dressing room under Wembley after the match. He got the ticket signed and passed it onto me and I have never met the chap in my life and I have had this ticket all my days and I have looked after it well."
Allan said he would love to meet the Scouse lorry driver to thank the man and "shake his hand". He said he had "no interest" in selling the ticket as it is "priceless to him" and if the man or his family would "like to have it back" they are welcome.
He added: "If not, why don't we look at donating it to the Anfield Museum and in six years from now it will be the 50th anniversary of the tie and I thought about this. None of us are getting any younger. My dad is long dead, I have had some medical conditions and so on and I am hoping this lorry driver is still alive, we don't know.
"If not would anyone be able to trace him? Are his family still here? If he wasn't here, I would love to speak to them about their dad, or their husband, uncle or whoever. I would love to meet him and thank him. After all these years the guy, I never met him and he never met me, but he met my dad on many occasions."
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