Pompey Great Scots Eleven

Jock Gilfillan

Fife-born Jock Gilfillan joined the Blues from Hearts in 1928 and went on to play for the club no less than 360 times. The loyal keeper represented Pompey in two FA Cup finals (1929 and 1934) but picked up a runners-up medal on both occasions. He keeps fellow Scots Dick Beattie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle out of the team.

Jimmy Stephen

Born in the Scottish village of Fettercairn (famous for its whisky distillery), Jimmy Stephen was signed from Bradford Park Avenue in 1949 for a then club record fee of £15,000. Due to national service he was restricted to just one game of Pompey’s 1949-50 title winning season.

Jimmy Guthrie

£4,000 was a princely sum in 1937, but it was money well spent on the Perth-born Jimmy Guthrie, who moved down to the south coast from Dundee. His place in Pompey legend is sealed as the captain of the 1939 FA Cup winning team. The final turned out to be his last significant game for the Blues, as the outbreak of war curtailed his career.

Graeme Hogg

Aberdeen-born Hogg was signed from Man United in 1988 and the strapping, no-nonsense centre back went on to make over 100 appearances for the Fratton Park club. He left Pompey for Hearts, where he was famously decked by team mate Craig Levein in a pre-season friendly.

Alex Wilson

Buckie-born Alex Wilson is best remembered for scoring the late goal that saved Pompey from a last-day relegation in 1965 – a game also notable as being Jimmy Dickinson’s last. A Fratton Park legend Wilson played 350 league games for the Blues.

Kevin Harper

The Oldham-born, Glasgow-raised Harper was one of those consistently inconsistent wingers who has the potential to burn up a game, but rarely does. The affectionate terrace chant ‘Kevin Harper, Football Genius’ was on occasion than a little ironic. Scored nine times in 128 games for Pompey.

Nigel Quashie

The London-born midfielder was brought in from Nottingham Forest in August 2000. With his hard running and tough tackling (forget the long-range shooting), McQuashie played an important role in the Championship winning team of two years later. Represented the country of his grandfather’s birth on 14 occasions.

Jimmy Scoular

The driving force in Portsmouth’s league title winning teams of (1948-49 & 1949-50), the Livingston-born Scoular was the living embodiment of the phrase ‘fiery Scot’ and cast the mould for players such as Dave Mackay and Billy Bremner. The midfield enforcer collected nine caps for Scotland.

Jackie Henderson

A whippet-quick, all-action footballer, the Glasgow-born Henderson (see pic above) was equally adept leading the line or on the wing (which is where we play him here). He banged in 70 goals in 217 league outings before moving on. He was capped seven times for his country.

Duggie Reid

As tough as Scottish granite, the West-Kilbride born Reid was an integral part of Pompey’s back-to-back championship-winning side. It was his hat-trick on the last day of the 1949-50 campaign that helped seal the title. He is surely one of the greatest Scottish footballers never to represent his country.

Jimmy Easson

The Brechin-born Easson scored 107 goals in 312 outings for the Blues, and comfortably keeps the likes of Gerry Creaney and Mark Burchill out of the team. The 1930-31 season saw him score 29 league goals including hat-tricks at home against Man United and Liverpool. Was the first Pompey player to score an international goal, netting for Scotland against Switzerland in 1931.