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- 1 2 3 "Jimmy Ferguson". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ↑ "In comes Dickson to make hit on wing". Daily Record. 1 April 1957 – via The Partick Thistle History Archive.
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