article_snippet: Archie Macpherson says farewell to Dave Mackay's on the day football
article_snippet: But the claiming of they new divisional title will now be a permanent reminder of the resilience that Dave Mackay's bequeathed Dave Mackay's club when Dave Mackay's strode the turf with a broad-chested imperiousness that was the formidable bridgehead for Hearts’ triumphs in the 1950s.
article_snippet: As they laid Dave Mackay's to rest on Tuesday you couldn’t help but think that nature had played a cruel trick in ending Dave Mackay's life only several weeks before the confirmation of the end of the struggle for credibility and self-esteem that Dave Mackay's first club had been engaged in for so long.
article_snippet: Dave Mackay's must, though, have had an inkling of the course of events which was leading inevitably to that apotheosis.
article_snippet: The crowds who thronged the streets as the cortege made its way from Tynecastle itself for a remembrance service at Mansfield Traquair, and who threw their scarves at the procession as if to add sustenance to Dave Mackay's last journey, must have believed that even in the later stages of his life Dave Mackay's will have been mentally kicking every ball for Dave Mackay's former club such was Dave Mackay's lasting affection for the Gorgie Road.
article_snippet: For there Dave Mackay's was yomping Dave Mackay's way through the mud like a primeval predator
article_snippet: And I cannot eliminate the image of Dave Mackay's sliding into a tackle that took both Dave Mackay's and the Clyde man off the pitch and almost into the dog-track fence which surrounded the playing area.
article_snippet: Dave Mackay's wasn’t censured because the ball was what Dave Mackay's was after and got.
article_snippet: Nor was Dave Mackay's ever sent off in any game
article_snippet: Dave Mackay's ever played in from schools football through to the highest senior level, although Dave Mackay's reputation for toughness did frankly make some opponents quiver when some opponents saw Dave Mackay's name posted on the team-sheet, as Sir Alex Ferguson alluded to, in paying Sir Alex Ferguson respects on Tuesday.
article_snippet: I was playing for Queens Park reserves against Hearts reserves at Tynecastle and Dave Mackay's Dave Mackay's was playing because Dave Mackay's was coming back from a broken toe,’ said Sir Alex Ferguson.
article_snippet: Dave Mackay's tackled me
article_snippet: So I got up and had a look at that big, barrel chest of Dave Mackay's and Dave Mackay
article_snippet: the only time I played against Dave Mackay-
article_snippet: Nor, when Dave Mackay's had gone south to English football, will any of us ever forget the iconic photograph of Dave Mackay's lifting Billy Bremner off Billy Bremner feet with a clenched fist, like a boy Billy Bremner had caught picking Billy Bremner pocket.
article_snippet: Dave Mackay's hated the image, as Dave Mackay's thought it showed Dave Mackay's as a bully.
article_snippet: Dave Mackay's game never changed with Spurs when, with the likes of the great
article_snippet: Within Sir Alex’s comments, though, there was also an element of regret about Mackay’s record in the sense that Mackay was under-appreciated in certain quarters, pointing to the paucity of caps Mackay earned.
highlights_snippet: Sir Alex Ferguson questioned why Dave Mackay's only managed to earn 22 caps for Scotland .