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There is a myriad of options you can get for each shirt, like without MLB patches and so on which come out cheaper. But still hideously expensive. I remember paying £62 for a Tromsø shirt in Norway back in 2008, but I reckon about £50 of that was tax.

Cheltenham Town third kit, interwoven with the names of the season ticket holders who waived their refunds.

But in 1982 for example only 9 of the 22 played in Scotland. What did for Scotland was Bosman. Suddenly English clubs could find it a lot easier to buy clubs from the Continent rather than Scotland. In 1986 it was 13 Scots against 9 non-Scots - and Dundee Utd and Aberdeen provided 9 of the squad. The falling-off of those two has had an impact as well.

It pre-dates the Palace kit by 4 years. Man City had a change kit in 1972 that was white with a red & black particoloured sash, and numbers on the sleeves à la Melchester Rovers. That kit had the red above the black though, if the Hamilton kit was the same colour, they seem to be reversed. Those sashes had a brief fashion around then; Rochdale had one in blue and yellow, and Halifax in blue and orange.

Corinthians were amateurs, the programme is English, so presumably the printers didn't know or care that QP were also amateur - or the Scots, when presenting their team, did not distinguish between pro and am. It was a big thing in cricket, the Gentlemen v Players game survived into the sixties, with players on the same team leaving from different entrances, and listed in the programmes differently according to whether they were professionals (surname, or surname + initials) or amateurs (initials + surname). So this programme is in the same pattern. (There was once a tannoy announcement at a cricket match: "ladies and gentlemen, there is an error in your programmes. F. J. Titmus should read Titmus F. J.") Stanley Matthews said that his letter from the FA calling him up for his international debut began "Dear Matthews". As an aside, there was obviously no policy then that a player had to be playing in Scotland to play for Scotland.

Would it be ungalant of me to suggest that Brechin, should they get relegated, have more of a chance of coming back via the Highland rather than the Lowland League?

To be fair they played 26 the previous season only to be told it was all meaningless, for some reason I still cannot fathom, given football continued after a fairly brief hiatus.

Good idea, run it up to 40 and you can have a Swiss system.

No, but your badge is rubbish. You could at least have a broom on a hill.

If I were Strathspey I think I'd be suggesting that the Strathy Jags should be top on a PPG basis. On the basis that 0/0=∞.

Most footballer autobiographies are destined for the library in the ninth circle of Hell. Cascarino's, albeit against that very low standard, is a pretty good one. Helped by his career not being a high profile one.

To be fair even St Johnstone were not happy with Muirton.

Best Blues shirt of my lifetime though. Either that or the v-neck equivalent.

Shouldn't the Lowland League suggest that the SPFL prove that it has the 42 strongest clubs available to it in turn?

Utter joke, yet more pandering to the billionaires who have bought the game. Eff the FA.

Cross-party approval for forcing the developer to comply with the planning permission.

Thanks - will take a look for that book, I see there's a copy on eBay. Corinthians are mentioned in the Football Club Directory as being formed in 1908 but rejected for SFA membership, and disbanding the same year. So they probably never played, just an idea to start up a senior club and were pre-empted by whatever was going on with Stranraer (United) FC and Dalrymple Harriers.

This is probably as good a place as any for a query on the club's history. I've read that Stranraer was a merger between a number of other clubs - Academy Coursers, Lodge TC, Sheuchan Swifts, and Waverley. The only references I can find on googling them relate to them all merging to form Stranraer. What was the point of them doing so? It basically stopped there being any fixtures within Stranraer. Or had they all decided that they would be better off only playing clubs from outside the town? Also, what was the story with Dalrymple Harriers? According to the John Boyd research on the net Viscount Dalrymple became the president of the remnant Stranraer United - was he a bit ticked off that this upstart club was stealing his name? (About the same time Stranraer Corinthians started, couldn't get registered, and vanished. Seems there was a lot of plotting going on then...)

What would have happened if the revived Rangers had not been admitted to the League and that place had gone to (say) Spartans? Surely the new people behind them would have done an Airdrie and bought someone else out of the competition entirely?

Should they switch this to an 18 month season and from then on do the Scandi thing of having the season over the year? Summer football? Especially with the longer daylight hours to save on floodlights or have more evening matches. As well as fewer postponements.

Rangers with three trophies in 1897: Glasgow Cup and Glasgow Charity Cup either side of the Scottish Cup. I put this up because I found out just now that Dumbarton, the runners-up in the Scottish Cup, also finished bottom of the League - and failed re-election. That seems intensely harsh for a club that had been champions five years before, and who had never had to apply for re-election. They lost out to Ayr 24-17. Was there some jealousy that they had managed to get to the Cup final? I don't think a club failed re-election until 1904 (Ayr Parkhouse), although that's because it seems Linthouse refused to apply for re-election when they were bottom in 1900. (Not surprising given how close they were to Ibrox.)

From 1954 to 1960, East Fife had more League Cup wins than anyone else in Scotland. It took until 1962 for anyone to go past them.

I think it is because the risk of transmission when playing football is low (outside, contact is not constantly close), so, in an ideal world, they'd let outdoor sport continue regardless. The problem is that injuries and so on will take up hospital places that may be needed for Covid isolation. Elite sport is better equipped to deal with that sort of thing, either privately or with a club's own resources. The average Sunday league team cannot provide much medical care beyond a magic sponge. And that's on top of the risk with regular activities that people could be injured in car crashes just trying to get there. It's all about keeping the hospitals empty rather than stopping transmission.

I don't suppose they could merge the League and Cup matches...play it for points and the next round...if it's a draw, then 1 point each, and pennos for who advances...

He's young at heart.