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- ↑ Rangers player McKillop, Tom, FitbaStats
- ↑ [A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players], John Litster / Scottish Football Historian magazine, October 2012
- ↑ "The War Years". rangers.premiumtv.co.uk. Rangers FC. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- 1 2 Scottish football's Mexican adventure in 1946, Scottish Sport History, 29 May 2018
- ↑ The Rhyl Team Pictured On An Open Top Bus After Winning The Welsh Cup Final [10 May 1948], Shutterstock
- ↑ Keith on the Ball, Rhyl Life, 16 April 2010
- ↑ Fruits of The Forrest, Daily Record, 30 March 2009
- ↑ Appreciation: Liz Drummond, former Scottish Office director of information, The Scotsman, 25 August 2016
