Everyone at Dundee Football Club was extremely saddened to learn of the passing of former player Alex Bryce, aged 80 years old.

Manager Bobby Ancel brought Alex to the club in the summer of 1966 when the 21-year-old was signed from Clyde for a fee of £28,000. A very talented and mobile inside-forward, Alex made a significant contribution to the Dark Blue cause over the next five years when he scored 25 goals in 136 competitive appearances.

Alex made his debut against Dundee United at Tannadice in a League Cup sectional tie and scored his first goal for the club away at Rangers on Hogmanay. Three days later he was on target again against Dundee United at Dens, the first of four goals scored in the derby, two of which were in the famous 6-4 win over The Arabs on September 11th 1971.

Alex was a member of the side which lost out to European Cup holders Celtic in the 1967 League Cup Final, having featured in eight games on ‘The Road to Hampden’ which included the quarters and the semi.

That same season Alex played in both legs of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie against DWS Amsterdam, was an unused sub in the second-round tie with Royal Liège but missed out on the rest of the club’s run to the semi-final. In his only other European appearance, however, he enjoyed better fortune scoring twice in the 4-2 triumph away to AB Copenhagen in September 1971.

That game in Demark would turn out to be Alex’s third last game for The Dee and after featuring in a 4-0 win over Falkirk signed for The Bairns in exchange for Bobby Ford.

Alex’s career also saw him turn out for Third Lanark and Cowdenbeath but his spell with The Dee was his longest and most successful.

The thoughts of everyone at Dundee Football Club are with Alex’s family and friends at this sad time.