Boghead ranter Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 6 hours ago, tamthebam said: Nice to see one of JIm's pictures get prominence. A good old character who got himself around the grounds over the years. He doesn't keep so well these days but still watches Musselburgh. Well here's another 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Miles McClagan on Twitter posts a lot of old programmes and has started scanning old Shoot magazines, some cracking pics. Got George's name wrong here. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 5 minutes ago, eindhovendee said: Miles McClagan on Twitter posts a lot of old programmes and has started scanning old Shoot magazines, some cracking pics. Got George's name wrong here. Superb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Pennel Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Fitba has changed. Can you imagine the likes of Todd Cantwell (for example) playing against those chaps in the photies above ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 On this day in 1968 Elgin City beat Arbroath 2-0 to become the first (have there been any other?) Highland League side to reach the Quarter Final of the Scottish Cup. The Borough Briggs ground record of 12,608 was set that day. The photo shows Arbroath goalie, Jim Williamson, making a save. https://www.arbroatharchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=289 Also posting another Arbroath Archive link for a game played away to Berwick Rangers in the Consolation Cup on this day in 1912 as the two paragraphs under the Maroons in the Tweed! sub heading are quite amusing. https://www.arbroatharchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=3111 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Interesting look by players at the OF monopoly in Scotland, from the 1978 Shoot annual. Hamish wasn't far off saying it could be broken with Aberdeen and United winning trophies over the next few years but Bobby Houston of Thistle saying that it would be front page news if either (OF) bit the dust was spot on though he did say that possibility was out of the question. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Bobby Ford's hair was madder than Drew Jarvie's 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 (edited) 1 hour ago, Boghead ranter said: I've got loads of favourites but the tunnel and big shed has Duncansfield near the top. Rotten public transport from me, so usually drive. I've made a day out of it for big cup ties. I remember a sent off Arthurlie player being manhandled up the tunnel but making intermittent re-appearances to continue his feud with everybody and anybody. Edited February 17 by Sergeant Wilson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 4 hours ago, Eednud said: On this day in 1968 Elgin City beat Arbroath 2-0 to become the first (have there been any other?) Highland League side to reach the Quarter Final of the Scottish Cup. The Borough Briggs ground record of 12,608 was set that day. The photo shows Arbroath goalie, Jim Williamson, making a save. https://www.arbroatharchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=289 They remain the only Highland League club to do so. Since the end of WWII, there have only been two non-league clubs who have reached the QF of the cup - the other was Eyemouth United of the East of Scotland League back in 1959/60. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 14 hours ago, eindhovendee said: Miles McClagan on Twitter posts a lot of old programmes and has started scanning old Shoot magazines, some cracking pics. Got George's name wrong here. I havent looked for years but I have pretty much every Shoot magazine from circa 1973 to 1982 in a loft ( where I lived as a child but brother stays there now) Really should go and look at them sometime soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 10 hours ago, Black Pennel said: Fitba has changed. Can you imagine the likes of Todd Cantwell (for example) playing against those chaps in the photies above ? We need more people in Scottish football with names like Ernie Winchester. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 50 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: I havent looked for years but I have pretty much every Shoot magazine from circa 1973 to 1982 in a loft ( where I lived as a child but brother stays there now) Really should go and look at them sometime soon. He sold them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamtart1972 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 On 12/02/2024 at 20:13, Sergeant Wilson said: Right, we all agree, you're as hard as fucking nails. Far from it. Violence never solves anything especially at the football. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamtart1972 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 On 15/02/2024 at 01:36, PossilYM said: And you could always smash all the windaes on Easter Rd if you wanted. Only an idiot would smash a window for the sake of a game of football. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamtart1972 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 On 12/02/2024 at 19:30, Ranaldo Bairn said: Gosh, 10k. How impressive. Again, your experiences have no bearing on those of other teams' fans. This should not be difficult to grasp for you. Very impressive given the standard of football that was on show. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamtart1972 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 On 12/02/2024 at 21:52, Molotov said: Deflated after losing out on the last day of the season, 1985-86. In fact devastated 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappiecat1.2 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Caledonian1 said: I havent looked for years but I have pretty much every Shoot magazine from circa 1973 to 1982 in a loft ( where I lived as a child but brother stays there now) Is this a Flowers in the Attic scenario? If you alert social services they'll get your brother out of there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearmyfaction Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 A not very exciting puff piece about Linthouse from the Scottish Referee of 12 August 1898. Thought it worth putting up because they were a curious club. Formed in 1881, so after the first swathe of football clubs had already come and gone, but, given that Govan already had a big club in Rangers and a small club in Whitefield, it's a bit weird why someone thought another was necessary. They survived about 20 years, and never did anything at all of note in the Scottish Cup; but, after the Scottish League did to Scottish clubs what an asteroid did to non-avian dinosaurs, clubs scrambled around to find their own leagues. Most of which collapsed in short order, but some survived long enough to feed into an expanding Scottish League. And Linthouse not only joined one, the Scottish Alliance, but won it. Despite the media not rating what seems to have been a somewhat lumpen team that sort of gouged its way to an unlikely title. The thing is, they tried to leverage that into joining the Scottish League, but failed, and a couple of years later threw the whole thing up in a huff. But after a year of nothingness they applied once more and WERE accepted for 1895-96. It's a really odd choice. Even more so that literally every League club voted them in. They and Kilmarnock came in to replace Cowlairs and Dundee Wanderers; Wanderers got just 3 votes and Cowlairs did not even bother. But surely there were better candidate clubs around? The obvious one being Wishaw Thistle, who had just won the Alliance, and 1895–96 seems to prove that, given Thistle won the Alliance again, and Linthouse finished bottom of the League. But the League gave the Linties another chance, which they did not really take, continually circling the drain before the inevitable demise. But the decision did a) kill off Thistle, and b) save Motherwell, who were also in the re-election battle, which may have been a reason for not voting for Thistle. Maybe it was a Glasgow thing? One out, so one in? The main interest for me in this article is it conforms Linthouse's rivalry was with Partick Thistle - despite being next door to Rangers the two clubs were in different worlds. Back then the papers were not quite yet doing opinion pieces so I've no idea what the logic was even trying to run a professional club within earshot of Ibrox. Also am assuming it's not the Labour leader who's going to don the dark blue in 1898. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 13 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Bobby Ford's hair was madder than Drew Jarvie's He looks older in that pic than he did 30 years later as Assistant Manager at Whitehill Welfare. Must have been a hard shift at Dens Park then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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