Hundreds of football fans joined famous players from the past to pay tribute to the late, great Dave Mackay at just after lunchtime yesterday.
Former team-mates including Denis Law, Frank McLintock,Cliff Jones, Ian St John, Alan Mullery, Pat Jennings, Alan Gilzean, Steve Perryman, Mike England Clive Allen and Bertie Auld attended the former Hearts, Tottenham Hotspurs, Derby County and Scotland star.
Also in attendance was current Hearts’ manager Robbie Neilson and owner Ann Budge.
The cortege left from Tynecastle Stadium, for a remembrance service in Mansfield Traquair which was opened with the FA Cup hymn ‘Abide with Me.’
Gorgie Road was lined with supporters who applauded the cortege as it drove past, with some throwing scarves and flowers on top of the funeral car.
Ex Hearts’striker John Robertson and Sir Alex Ferguson spoke at the service.
Photos courtesy of Thomas Brown North Edinburgh Community News, one of the partner organisations in Edinburgh News Cooperative.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
