Everyone at the club was saddened to learn of the death of Alex Munro, who played for Rovers between 1962 and 1971.

Alexander Munro was born in Glasgow on 3rd October 1944 and was the son of Alexander Dewar Munro who was capped three times by Scotland and played for Hearts and Blackpool either side of the Second World War.

Alex junior, a tough tackling player, turned out for Glasgow schoolboys and joined Rovers on trial in September 1962 after he was spotted playing for Drumchapel Boys Club who were based in the north west of the city.

One month later he signed a professional contract and made his Rovers debut, at left half, in a 3-3 home draw against Bradford Park Avenue on 1st December 1962. It was the first time the clubs had met in the Football League and Alex unwittingly created a record that day, when he became the first Rovers player to put through his own goal on his league debut.

After making just five appearances in the 1962/63 season and only two in 1963/64, he gradually established himself as a regular member of the first team squad and played in a number of positions before establishing himself as the side's outside left between 1966 and 1968.

His first league goal for the club was scored in a 4-0 home win over Workington at the end of November 1964.

When Joe Davis moved to Swansea, in March 1967, Alex was called on to fill the left back vacancy, a position he made his own until he broke a leg in a Gloucestershire FA Cup Final against Bristol City, at Ashton Gate, at the end of the 1967/68 campaign.

This restricted him to just one league appearance the following season, a single goal victory at Stockport in April 1969, but he was, once again, a regular in the side in 1969/70.

He was to lose his left back spot to Lindsay Parsons the following season, and in the summer of 1971, having made a total of 169 league appearances and scoring 11 goals, he left Bristol and moved to South Africa where he played for Durban, Durham City and East London in the Natal Province.

He returned to these shores two years ago, settling in Cornwall, and died in St Austell on Sunday 24th May.

Our thoughts are with his daughters Keeley and Natalie, and all of his family and friends at this sad time.