JIM McCALLIOG scored in an FA Cup final, set up the winning goal in another and scored and captained a team in a UEFA Cup final.

All impressive achievements but not what most Scotland fans want to talk about whenever they find themselves in the company of the affable 66-year-old.

It is now 46 years since McCalliog scored what turned out to be the winning goal the day Scotland ran amok at Wembley, crowning themselves unofficial world champions in the process. In the intervening period neither the frequency with which he is asked about the match, nor his willingness to enter into discussion, have diminished. If some musicians are said to get fed up playing their biggest hits, then it was never the same with McCalliog, who would happily talk about Scotland's 3-2 win over England in 1967 until the cows came home. "You can't get sick of talking about a game like that," he said. "You don't lose memories like that. They just magnify and become clearer with time."

McCalliog, then of Sheffield Wednesday, is often forgotten about amid tales of Jim Baxter's keepie-uppies and Denis Law imploring team-mates to further twist the knife but, if anything, his contribution that day was even more impressive than the rest.

The forward was just 20 years old when Bobby Brown took his team to play the reigning world champions and it was also his Scotland debut. Lining up alongside team-mates he had grown up idolising and facing the side which had lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy less than year earlier would likely have been a nerve-wracking experience for most young debutants but McCalliog, remarkably, remained unfazed.

"I knew the selectors were after me as they had been at my games for about six weeks in a row leading up to the England game," he said. "I had also played for Scotland under-23s and done well. So there was a lot of talk that I would be in the running, although there was a lot of competition for places from the likes of Stevie Chalmers and Ian St John. I had never met Bobby Brown and didn't really know who he was so I was probably the outsider. But I got my chance.

"On the Monday before the game we [Wednesday] played Manchester United. I had never met Denis Law before but he came up and asked for my photograph. I thought that was great. Denis, Jim Baxter, John Greig and Paddy Crerand were all guys that I looked up to a lot. But I couldn't let myself be in awe of them. I just tried to be positive in my head. If they've picked you there was probably a good reason for it."

McCalliog, though, was not some callow youth experiencing the bright lights of London for the first time. He was just 16 when he left his home in the Gorbals to sign for Leeds United, moving on to Chelsea four months later. After two years he was on to Wednesday for £37,500, a then record fee for a teenager, and by the end of his first season he had scored in both the FA Cup semi-final and final.

His goal at Wembley in May 1966 helped his team into a 2-0 lead only for Everton to come behind to take the trophy with a 3-2 win. It was a bitter experience but helped harden the forward up for the challenges ahead, including that return to Wembley with Scotland less than a year later.

"Everton then were like Manchester City now - they were the Bank of England club as they had pots of money," he recalled. "We had six young guys of 22 or younger and went into a 2-0 lead only to be pegged back. That was bitterly disappointing but it gave me experience of playing and scoring at Wembley.

"That would come in handy the following year. England were the world champions but I had played against most of their players in the two seasons previous. So that maybe gave me a bit of an advantage over the Scottish guys who maybe had only seen them on the telly."

His goal after 87 minutes, not surprisingly, remains vividly fresh in his mind. "I was still full of energy at that point so I ran forward and took a pass off wee Billy [Bremner]. I turned quickly, played a one-two with Willie Wallace, then smashed it into the back of the net before Bobby Moore got me. I've still got the photos from the game as it's the only time I ever saw Bobby and Gordon Banks on their backsides at the same time."

Wembley was not the last highlight in McCalliog's career. He later moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £70,000, scoring in the aggregate loss to Tottenham Hotspur in the 1972 two-legged UEFA Cup final, before Manchester United signed him for £60,000. From there he would move to Southampton, supplying the pass for Bobby Stokes to score the winner against United in the 1976 FA Cup final.

That goal at Wembley, however, remains the most popular talking point. "Southampton fans like to discuss 1976 but most Scots want to talk about 1967 and I'm happy to do so. But I did okay in my career overall. It wasn't bad for a lad from the Gorbals."