I know I’ve previously listed him among the worst signings that the Dons ever made in my 55 years of attendance, but I’m sorry to see news of Barrie Mitchell’s death at 73, in today’s press. Bonthrone grabbed him from Dunfermline when pressure was on him to sell Joe Harper, and nobody was ever really going to replace him.
I didna realise that he was originally from the city.
I can only remember him scoring once, when we beat Manchester United 5-2 in a crowd-pulling friendly as a sweetener for Docherty’s capture of Martin Buchan.
http://www.afcheritage.org/Team/Curr...Season=1972-73