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This dumbarton fan isn't bothered in the slightest, just intrigued by"football fans" who suddenly became business fans when Rangers hit the skids. No such interest when Livi, Airdrie, Celtic, Leeds Utd, Wimbledon for example all reformed, for some strange reason.

I think it is him. The face on the photo does seem to be what I remember, although the hair seems very different. Unless anyone else can suggest otherwise I'll go with Floydy being the character I remember all those years ago.

Cheers Wilf, I think that is him. The name 'Floydy' does fit my memory and what looks like slightly skelly eyes ( no doubt due to his condition) seems to ring a bell also. The man I remember had unkempt longer, maybe shoulder length hair, but that was not uncommon in 79. The above photo is from the 80s when short, neater hairstyles were common. The only thing is, the hair in the above photo is very dark and I seem to remember the guy l mentioned having fair/ grey hair. But that's not certain - I often get memory details wrong. I remember being in the small end of the ground and it was very busy, but no-one sang till our friend walked in. He just shouted, "Dumbarton" loudly and the entire end joined in. He never sang complete songs - just started them off. I'm sure it must be him as I don't recall more than one "cheerleader" at the time. Apologies to all who knew him for insinuating he was an alcoholic. Maybe at the age of 11 I just thought everyone was. Where did you get the photo?

Just about to say the same. Weird thing is, they think they're being funny.

PS: he was definitely not Gullie the raging alcoholic from Tulichewan, although they did have that similar death's doorstep alcoholic look. The dumbarton fan one was a good bit older.

Help me out here older Sons. When I was a kid and used to go to Boghead around 1979-80 there was a "cheerleading" type fan who used to start the songs, and a good few youngsters idolised him. He was a raging alcoholic and I seem to remember his name was Gullie, or something similar. Can anyone shed any light on this character?

It definitely has a better ring to it than, "20p piece heid" or even, " new pound coin heid".

The acoustics were indeed incredible. Such a shame, even the fact I saw many a film in there as a youngster as well as a number of gigs.

Contrary to popular belief, the Royal Family are not a colony of alien blood-sucking lizards but are actually a group of battery powered cabbage patch dolls.

I know a sizeable chunk of our support are elderlies, but I didn't think I'd hear the shout: " heed like a thrupenny bit" shouted out, as I did at the last home game.

Actually, it's not.

A Saucerful of Secrets from Live at Pompeii - onwards from the bit where the organ comes in.

Nothing agitated me and made me want to pan the radio in quite like Stevie Wonder's, I just called to say I love you. I mean, it was even worse than Grandma we love you, or anything by Twin Atlantic.

Pretty much non-stop Brian Jonestown Massacre for me.

Does anyone remember a truly appalling band from the mid-80s attempting heavy rock called Glasgow? Absolute dugmeat.

Trying to remember the names of some of the bands I saw at the original 13th note when plenty of bands played downstairs: Lungleg, The Poison Sisters, Pink Kross, Spacehopper. Others like The Delgados, Mogwai and Urusei Yatsura got various levels of success. Not sure if all of them were at the 13th note but most probably were. Pick of the bunch live for me were Spacehopper. I also remember seeing one serious pile of dugmeat at the 13th note - some mob called Par Cark. An art school band with their heads right up their arses, with one of the most pretentious audiences I've ever seen.

Aherm! What did you say about me mentioning music on this thread??? Seems it's one rule for the oldies and another for the newbies.

Remember Lopez Ufarte from the 82 world cup? And there was a British Olympic kickboxer, maybe around Seoul 88, called Elvis Parsley.

Didn't he make it an offence to laugh at his name?

Caldercruix (sp?), Harthill, Ardrossan, Port Glasgow, Coatbridge. Caldercruix has to be some sort of experiment.

Sparks have played various gigs with a waxwork dummy of Ron Mael when Ron was ill. Fans didn't notice the difference.

Conspiracy theorists have long been saying that Elvis didn't die in 1977. They are correct - he died in 1975 but the only body double with an identical face weighed 35 stone. The body double died in 1977.

Elton John turned down an offer to be Led Zeppelin' s singer before Robert Plant got the nod.

Australia doesn't exist. Anyone you hear with an Australian accent is a paid actor and koalas are just soft toys, which is why you never see them move.

I am. It was relevant - a top tip on surviving a long journey to a match in which we will no doubt lose. You have your buckie, I've got BJM.