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Dirty Sanchez

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  1. I'm surprised they aren't having the final at So-Fi. I wonder what the criteria were for choosing. It would be played in daylight whichever time zone it was in, if they aimed for European prime time, as they usually do.

    I see the BBC haven't noticed that Giants Stadium was demolished years ago and MetLife is a different ground on a different footprint.

  2. 3 hours ago, Buttocks Brown said:

    Our biggest win at Easter Road since April 1985.

    0-4 (Winnie, McAvennie 2, Gallagher). Attendance: 3669.

    Saints went onto finish 5th. Hibs 8th, 8 points above Dumbarton who were relegated along with Morton.

    And about half of that seemed to be Hibs casuals, as I recall. My old boy and I bolted well before the end to give us a sporting chance of getting away unscathed.

  3. For France '98, which was done by post, anyone who had been to at least two away qualifiers, or the game that Estonia didn't turn up for, was guaranteed tickets for all three games.

    One away qualifier got you a Brazil ticket, which is what I had via the Sweden game in Gothenburg. Everybody else in the Travel Club got one of whatever was left.

    I actually flew back and watched the Norway game in my house before spotting a newspaper advert for a scuffed charter flight to the Morocco game, including match ticket, which turned into an epic trip day trip on a giant ramshackle antique plane with free-for-all seating and a smattering of footballing celebrites on board, such as Davie Hay and Roddy Grant, who turned up in his St Johnstone tracksuit. The airline was Peach Air, which I later found out was genuinely an anagram of 'Cheap' which made sense, on reflection.

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  4. Best one I can remember from ticketing in the past is when travel agents were selling them alongside travel package deals for Italy '90.

    You had to buy a book of tickets for five games, the three Scotland games plus two others, one of which was Sweden v Costa Rica which kicked off at the same time as Scotland v Brazil, which obviously wasn't much use.

    The other ticket was for the 2nd round game in Genoa, which turned out to be Ireland v Romania, so plenty of unsuspecting Irish holidaymakers in the resorts scored tickets from Tartan Army who were already heading home before it.

  5. Thomas Stickroth, just as he could often be seen frequenting Platform 1 at Paisley Gilmour Street with his missus after games in the early 90s.

    Used to get compared to George Michael. You could debate the merits of that, but not many other people were being compared to George Michael.

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  6. We were legitimately unlucky in both games against England in the Euro 2000 play-off.

    The score in the first leg was flattering to them as well. I was at both matches and memories from the Wembley one include Neil McCann terrorising Sol Campbell all night and Alan Shearer killing time at the corner flag. Tony Adams went straight to Craig Brown at the end to tell him how good we had been.

    All a bit diddy outfit hard luck story, but there you are.

  7. 16 hours ago, Leith Green said:

    John McGinn joining us (when we were already down) was a real statement of intent. Remember all those Celtic and Diets fan(nie)s who said he (a) wisnae very good (b) wasnt worth £2m (c) would never make it in England?

    I remember him being discussed on the radio by Richard Gordon and Co prior to a St Mirren v Aberdeen game, where everyone involved would now deny that the gist of the conversation was "Aye, he looks not bad, but he's not exactly Peter Pawlett". 😂

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