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Player #52. April 26th, 1972 and Scotland beat Peru 2-0 at Hampden. Making his first appearance in the 1970s is the great Denis Law of Manchester United. Denis was winning his 43rd of 55 caps and is of course joint all time goalscorer with Kenny Dalglish with 30 goals.

Player #49. April 26th, 1972 and Scotland beat Peru 2-0 at Hampden. Also making his debut that night was Asa Hartford of West Brom. Asa went on to win 50 caps.

Player #50. April 26th, 1972 and Scotland beat Peru 2-0 at Hampden. Making his first appearance in the 1970s is Willie Morgan of Manchester United. This was his eight cap and he went on to win 27 caps in total.

Player #49. April 26th, 1972 and Scotland beat Peru 2-0 at Hampden. Also making his debut that night was Willie Donachie of Manchester City. Willie went on to win 35 caps.

Player #48. April 26th, 1972 and Scotland beat Peru 2-0 at Hampden. Making his debut that night was Ally Hunter of Kilmarnock. Ally went on to win four caps.

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Player #47. November 10th, 1971 and Scotland beat Belgium 1-0 at Pittodrie. Making his debut was John Hansen of Partick Thistle. John was only to win two caps. Don't have a photo in Scotland colours, so a Jags one with a big Thistle badge will have to do.

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Player #46. (The one we all knew was coming). November 10th, 1971 and Scotland beat Belgium 1-0 at Pittodrie. Making his debut was Kenny Dalglish of Celtic. Kenny went on to be the most capped Scotland player of all time with 102 caps, netting a joint record haul of 30 goals.

Player #45. November 10th, 1971 and Scotland beat Belgium 1-0 at Pittodrie. Making his one and only appearance for Scotland that night is Steve Murray of Aberdeen.

Player #44 (made the mistake of having two 42s). October 13th, 1971 and the Tommy Docherty era begins with a 2-1 win over Portugal. Martin Buchan of Aberdeen makes his debut and will go on to win 34 caps.

Player #42. October 13th, 1971 and the Tommy Docherty era begins with a 2-1 win over Portugal. George Graham of Arsenal makes his debut and will go on to win 13 caps.

Pat Stanton and Ally Hunter, future Celts, on Scotland duty in 1972 with Bobby Moncur and Bobby Clark.

Player #42. October 13th, 1971 and the Tommy Docherty era begins with a 2-1 win over Portugal. Alex Cropley of Hibernian makes his debut but will only go on to win two caps.

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Player #41. October 13th, 1971 and the Tommy Docherty era begins with a 2-1 win over Portugal. Making his first appearance in the 1970s is Eddie Colquhoun of Sheffield United. Eddie was winning his third cap having played in the 1967 World tour. He was to win 11 caps altogether.

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Player #40. October 13th, 1971 and the Tommy Docherty era begins with a 2-1 win over Portugal. Bob Wilson of Arsenal makes his debut but will only go on to win two caps.

Player #39. June 14th 1971 & Bobby Watson of Motherwell makes his only appearance for Scotland in a 1-0 loss to the USSR. This was to be Bobby Brown's last match in charge. Watson (4th from the left) is seen here in Moscow with some of his teammates from Tom Forsyth's book 'Jaws'