"I went to Las Vegas for a holiday, took two signed Kilmarnock tops and managed to buy meet and greet tickets and get her to sign them and told her a little about Paper Roses being our song and she's been following us ever since, " he said.
"I was too young to know, but in 1975, when things were going against us, we were going part-time and maybe it was just a songabout a failed love that was adopted by the Kilmarnock supporters at Dumbarton one day, " he told BBC Scotland.