David Halliday: top scoring centre forward who couldn’t make it at Arsenal

by Tony Attwood David “Dave” Halliday was born 11 December 1901 in Dumfries and trained initially as a motor mechanic playing for the works team of car maker Arrol-Johnston. The works team merged with two others in 1919 to form Queen of the South and the following year on 17 January Dave started playing for them, (and not …