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- ↑ Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 23 September 2023
- ↑ Our Visitors Today–Partick Thistle Archived 4 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine , Morton FC match programme, 6 January 1968 (via Partick Thistle History Archive)
- 1 2 3 Meet the new Captain... Archived 9 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine , Partick Thistle FC match programme, 8 February 1969 (via Partick Thistle History Archive)
- ↑ Players Mac / Mc, Partick Thistle History Archive
- ↑ Team Groups: 1988-89 Archived 4 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine , Partick Thistle History Archive
- ↑ Thistle fail to recover loss of early goals, The Glasgow Herald, 6 November 1973 (via Partick Thistle History Archive)
- ↑ Poster Print: The Scotland 1978 World Cup squad, SNS Group
- ↑ "Donnie McKinnon". IMDb .
- ↑ Interview: Ronnie McKinnon, Rangers legend, The Scotsman, 7 January 2011