CANNOT believe it is all of 30 years this week since that great Celtic and Scotland manager Jock Stein died. We remember current Scotland manager Gordon Strachan talking about his playing career when Jock substituted him during a Scotland game against France. Sitting for the rest of the game in the dug-out, Gordon remarked to a fellow player: "What a poor game this is."

Jock heard him and replied: "Aye, but it's got a lot better since you came off."

WE mentioned the Calvin Harris concert at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow last week being a bit of a wild night for some of the concert-goers. Perhaps confirming our supposition, was a young girl called Colette from Motherwell who told Calvin on social media: "Any chance u cud play again Calvin? A got absolutely steaming' n canny mind a thing!"

To be fair, some nights like that can still be great.

GOING further back in time, a feature about the old Apollo concert hall in Glasgow reminds David Watson in Cumbernauld: "I attended one of the Johnny Cash shows at the Apollo in the seventies. Arriving from Queen Street station as an innocent abroad -well a youth from Coatbridge - I joined a huge queue populated by many sporting western outfits - including convincing looking sidearms - that stretched down Sauchiehall Street.

"Seeking certainty, I asked the cowboy and cowgirl in front, 'Is this the queue for Johnny Cash?'

"Without turning round, the monotone reply was, 'How? Are there two queues like this in Glesga?'”

READER Eva Carter was in her local Post Office where a member of staff called it the Magic Shop. When she asked why, he told her: "Some folk come hobbling in for their benefits, leaning heavily on their walking sticks, and hanging them on the counter to collect their money. They then spring jauntily towards the door and vanish along the pavement, a cure having been apparently accomplished."

He was of course referring to the psychology of collecting benefits, and not suggesting in any way that they were malingerers.

BIG occasion in Ayrshire at the weekend was the Scottish Airshow at Ayr which attracted over 100,000 onlookers. A reader confesses: "Headed for Prestwick and watched the planes from the airshow at the beach.

"Took me a while to get into the groove as I was taking snaps of kites and seagulls thinking they were airplanes."

AS it looks increasingly likely that Jeremy Corbyn will be the next Labour Party leader, reader Bruce Skivington does his sums and comments: "if Jeremy Corbyn is the Labour leader at the 2020 election, it will be just 19 days before his 71st birthday.

"if he does win, do you think when he walks through the door of No10 that he is going to say, 'Now what did I come in here for?'"

READER David Reynolds feels his pulse quicken when he says the name of Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp on the poster for Wing & A Prayer Theatre Productions' comedy play Sheerluck & The Case of the Missing Case being staged at the south side's Eastwood Theatre next month. He thinks to himself, 'Cute" when he draws nearer and reads the testimonial: "Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron and Robert Downey Jnr refused to appear in this production."