CELTIC face cash-rich Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk tonight in a crucial Champions League clash at Parkhead.

The sides have met before and CALLY of Pollok wanted to ask - Has the Real Madrid boss Bernd Schuster ever managed Shakhtar Donetsk? If so was he in charge when Celtic met them at home in 2004? Also, can you list the Celtic team? THE first answer is yes. The German coach had a spell in charge at Shakhtar in 2003-04. The club have had numerous foreign coaches, including Italian Nevio Scala.

However, the Donetsk coach when the sides met three years ago was Romanian, Mircea Lucescu, and he is still in charge.

The match you refer to was played on Wednesday, November 4, 2004, and Celtic won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Alan Thompson, after being thrashed 3-0 in Ukraine. The Hoops team was:

Celtic: Marshall; Agathe, Valgaeren, Varga, McNamara, Petrov, Lennon, Thompson, McGeady, Hartson, Camara. Subs used: Wallace, Beattie.

ROBERT McELROY (via email) WITH reference to the query by Ewen McMartin of North Kelvinside (November 10), I can advise you that I was present at East End Park, Dunfermline on November 23, 1963. A one minute silence was immaculately observed prior to kick-off for the late President John F. Kennedy.

I believe one-minute silences were held at all Scottish League grounds that afternoon, indeed at grounds throughout Britain.

HOTSHOT HAMISH (Troon) - I know that while at Partick, Andy Kerr twice played for Scotland. Can you give me details of the opposition and the results of both matches? KERR is perhaps better known as a centre-forward with Kilmarnock in the early 1960s, but in his two international appearances he played at full- back. On May 19, 1955, he was left-back when Scotland beat Austria 4-1 in the Prater Stadium, Vienna and right-back in the Nep Stadium, Budapest, where Hungary defeated Scotland 3-1 on May 29, 1955.

IS IT TRUE (Croftfoot) - I can recall my dad telling me of a famous player who had written a book where a chapter entitled The average club director's knowledge of football' was a blank page. Who was the player? LEN SHACKLETON, an English international inside forward who played for Bradford, Newcastle, and Sunderland, was the author of a hard-hitting book Clown Prince of Soccer' in 1955 when he was still at the top of his profession. It was one of the first books ever written by a player and is still a good read today.

MICK McPHEE (Clydebank) - Did Billy Bremner, the Leeds United and Scotland captain of the 1960s and 70s, ever play for Stirling Albion? My friend says he did. I reckon that he went south straight from school. BILLY joined Leeds United as a youngster and never played senior domestic football in Scotland. Billy was born and bred in Stirling and although he often watched the Albion as a boy, he never played for his hometown club.

The vast majority of Billy's career was spent at Leeds although he later had a spell at Hull City, and came out of retirement in an emergency to play for Doncaster Rovers when he was manager of the club.

JAMIE NICHOLAS (Rutherglen) - I recently read that Celtic legend Danny McGrain suffered a fractured skull during a match. Can you give me details of the game? IT was a league match at Falkirk on March 25, 1972, when this incident occurred.

Danny sustained the injury early in the game and he was replaced by Lou Macari. Celtic went on to win a closely contested game 1-0, with Vic Davidson scoring the goal in the 86th minute. SEND your footballing queries to Now You Know, Evening Times Sport, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G2 3QB or, email sport@ eveningtimes.co.uk Answers every Wednesday and Saturday.