Davie Kinnear was one of the players, whose footballing career was most interrupted by the Second World War, certainly in terms of potential. Born in 1917, the son of a coal-miner, both his parents Fifers, he grew up in Sinclairtown between Dysart and Kirkcaldy. Thus in 1939 he was twenty-two and something of a prodigy. He had debuted on the left-wing for his home team, Raith Rovers, aged just sixteen. Rangers had signed him at seventeen, winning titles in 1937 and 1939. He was capped at twenty, as it would turn out his only international recognition. And in 1945 at twenty-eight with his best years perhaps behind him Rangers would give him a season more before he would, now married in Pollock to Mary McIntyre, move on, down a division to Dunfermline for three seasons and more or less to the end of his playing career.