John 'Jocky' Dempster is a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 former professional footballer.

Career

Dempster played with junior outfit Muirkirk before signing for Queen of the South F.C.

Queen of the South F.C.

Queen of the South Football Club is a Scottish professional football club founded in 1919 and located in Dumfries. The club currently plays in the Scottish First Division, the second tier of Scottish football. They are officially nicknamed The Doonhamers, but usually referred to as Queens or QoS...

 at the start of the 1969-70

1969-70 in Scottish football

The 1969–70 season was the 73rd season of Scottish league football.-Scottish League Division One:Champions: Celtic Relegated: Raith Rovers, Partick Thistle-Scottish League Division Two:Promoted: Falkirk, Cowdenbeath-Cups:...

 season.

Dempster is best known for his time at Dumfries

Dumfries

Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South...

 club, Queen of the South. The 1970s goalscoring winger and penalty taker found the net 98 times during 355 first team games for Queens placing him 4th in the all-time scoring charts. Jocky Dempster is in a select group of only 18 players to have made over 300 appearances for Queens. Dempster played alongside team mates Allan Ball

Allan Ball

Allan Ball is an English former footballer. Born in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, Ball played as a goalkeeper, spending most of his professional career with Scottish club Queen of the South. Ball made 731 first team appearances for Queens, a club record, between 1963 and 1982...

, Iain McChesney and Crawford Boyd

Crawford Boyd

Crawford Boyd from Kilwinning is a Scottish former professional footballer.Crawford Boyd is best known for his time at Dumfries club, Queen of the South The defensive cornerstone of the 1970s returned to Queens during the promotion campaign of 1980-81 to make a total of 321 first team appearances...

 who were named amongst the best eleven that he played beside at Queens.

Queen of the South just missed out on promotion in Dempster's first season at Palmerston Park

Palmerston Park

Palmerston Park is a multi-purpose stadium on Terregles Street in Dumfries, south west Scotland. The site of the ground was formerly a farm called Palmers Toun. This is on the Maxwelltown side of the River Nith in Dumfries. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of...

, season 1969-70, as the club finished 3rd in the table behind Falkirk

Falkirk F.C.

Falkirk Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Falkirk. It is one of two professional football teams from the town, the other being East Stirlingshire...

 and Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath F.C.

Cowdenbeath Football Club are a professional Scottish football team based in the town of Cowdenbeath, Fife. They currently play in the Second Division of the Scottish Football League. The club plays its home games at Central Park in the centre of the town which has the unusual feature of a motor...

 respectively, in Scottish League Division Two.

After leaving Palmerston Park, Dempster played for senior clubs St. Mirren

St. Mirren F.C.

St Mirren Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Paisley, Renfrewshire who play in the Scottish Premier League, having been promoted from the First Division in 2005–06.St...

 and Clyde

Clyde F.C.

Clyde Football Club are a Scottish professional football team currently playing in the Third Division of the Scottish Football League. Although based for the last fifteen years in the new town of Cumbernauld, they are traditionally associated with an area that covers Rutherglen in South...

 for a season apiece, before moving to junior outfit Cumnock.