The day a legend played his first game for Scotland

1951

Picture: Aberdeen schools - Denis Law bottom right

On this day in 1958, Aberdeen-born Denis Law became the youngest footballer to play for Scotland.

At the time (playing for Huddersfield Town) he was just 18 years and 7 months old when he played against Wales at Cardiff, a match Scotland went on to win 3-0.

Law achieved great things in his career, scoring 236 goals as Manchester United’s star striker, and in a ironic twist, it was he who, wearing a Manchester City strip, scored the infamous goal that relegated United in 1974.

Sir Alex Ferguson summed him up like this: “He had courage, he was dashing, he had that mischievousness. To me, Denis epitomised what being a Scot was.”