A MEMORIAL service is to be held at Dollar Parish Church on Friday week in honour of a Scot who carried the name of arguably his country’s greatest city into Five Nations’ battle with ferocious distinction: Ronnie Glasgow.
Born and bred not on the banks of the Clyde but in Haddington, he blazed a trail for a couple of likely local lads, the Calder brothers who would follow him into Scotland’s back row during the Eighties. Two decades earlier, Glasgow had marked his belated arrival on the international scene by turning the tide of history in Scotland’s favour...