Davie Meiklejohn was born in Govan in 1900 and raised there too. But he was the son of Fifers from by and Dunfermline itself, his father a marine engine mechanic. And David too was apprenticed to the same trade, when in 1919 at eighteen he was signed by Rangers from junior club, Maryhill and in that first season made eleven starts, which became forty-three the next. Even in his final campaign, 1935-6, he at thirty-five played a total of games exactly matching his age.     

And so it was that on retirement Davie would first turn his hand to football journalism, would marry the following year, in Glasgow, his bride, Annie Pearson, the daughter of a marine engineer. They were to have four children, all born in Pollock, one before the war, three during, whereupon their father would return to the game. In 1947 he was appointed manager of Partick Thistle, would remain in post for a dozen years and die in the saddle, suffering a heart-attack whilst watching a match in 1959 at Broomfield Park, Airdrie. He was just fifty eight, would be buried at Craigton Cemetery a short distance from where he had lived throughout his married life, outlived by Annie, whose passing would be in Glasgow in 1995 at the age of eighty-five.