Sergeant Wilson Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 On 29/08/2024 at 10:31, Jacksgranda said: Dave MacKay Here he is after Billy Brenner made the same mistake. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 6 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Here he is after Billy Brenner made the same mistake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piquet Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Here he is after Billy Brenner made the same mistake. From The Scotsman Why Dave Mackay hated famous Billy Bremner photo By The Newsroom Published 3rd Mar 2015, 21:00 BST Mackay grew to hate the Billy Bremner picture as it seemed to wrongly suggest he was a bully. The most famous photo of Dave Mackay is one that the man himself grew to hate. To some viewers, the picture by sports photographer Monte Fresco of Mackay grabbing hold of Billy Bremner during a 1966 match between Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds is one of football’s most memorable images, summing up his commanding presence. But Mackay felt it gave a misleading impression. “I get asked to autograph that photo all the time,” he said a few years ago. “But I don’t like it, because it portrays me as a bully – he’s smaller than me and I’m picking him up. I’m not a bully and don’t like bullies. “He was a brilliant little player but a dirty little b******. He kicked me in the leg I’d just come back from breaking twice. If he’d kicked the other one I could have accepted that. But he kicked the broken one and that really annoyed me. I could’ve killed him that day.” Jimmy Greaves, a Spurs team-mate of Mackay’s, was more forthright in his criticism of Bremner when he discussed the photo in 2011. “When Dave grabbed Billy it was probably the only time this nasty little player ever looked frightened in his entire career,” he said. “I can remember Bremner kicking me in the tunnel before one Leeds-Spurs match. I asked: ‘What did you do that for, Bill?’ and he said: ‘Just cos I f***ing felt like it’. He wouldn’t have kicked Dave Mackay in the tunnel, though!” The famous photograph is conspicuous by its absence in Mackay’s autobiography in 2004 - The Real Mackay - and when The Scotsman serialised the book, Mackay was reluctant for the image to be used. Writing the foreword to the book, Sir Alex Ferguson said. “Dave’s rage is that of a person having been inexplicably kicked by a brother or best friend; Billy’s look is one of the brother or best friend having made a stupid mistake and regretted it. “Dave was never dirty or cynical. He would never do anything that might sully the reputation of the sport he loved. He never set out to hurt another player, although plenty of others set out to hurt him.” ©National World Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Story here https://nutmegfootball.substack.com/p/cruyff-to-dumbarton-you-wont-believe 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 31 August 1935 Arbroath 3 Queen of the South 1 att: 4,800 in the old First Division. Arbroath finished the season 11th on 33 pts and Queens 15th on 31 pts, 4 pts above 19th placed and relegated Airdrie. Ayr finished bottom. https://www.arbroatharchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=3944 It wasn’t just the men that wore bunnets or hats in those days. Think there’s at least one hatless wifie/lassie though and maybe another couple but hard to tell. Wonder how goalscorer Peter Flucker pronounced his surname. Played for Hearts, Queen of the South, Arbroath, Hibs and St Bernards. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 From the Dee Archive site Willie Bauld on the cover of a Hearts v Dundee 1957 programme. The picture is from a Hearts v Queen’s Park game and it’s probably Hearts 9 Queen’s Park 2 a few weeks earlier. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bob in Denny Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 On 09/08/2024 at 11:03, AyrshireTon said: 21 years go today, Morton faced Airdrie United in the Division 2 season opener at Cappielow. With the score at 1-1, Referee Somers was injured and one of the assistant took over. Cowboy McCormack came over to the Cowshed and picked out Chic Kavanagh to run the line, to the consternation of the away support. In truth, Kavanagh had very little to do. The replacement referee was nice enough to award the free kick and penalty which we scored our 2nd and 3rd goals from. Spawned this famous CD.. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 On 30/08/2024 at 19:03, Boghead ranter said: Story here https://nutmegfootball.substack.com/p/cruyff-to-dumbarton-you-wont-believe Aye, those were the days. I still have a cutting of a Glasgow Herald headline which stated drily that 'Cruyff Is The Target Of Dumbarton Bid'. As per the Nutmeg article, the great man claimed that our second-tier status killed any deal, but the truth is much more prosaic. Graham Fyfe was playing out of his skin at number 10 and Cruyff wasn't guaranteed a start. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 (edited) Recall we left the Summer Cup of 1964 ago at the Final stage, after it got delayed due to the Aberdeen typhoid epidemic... it then finished Aberdeen 3-2 Hibs and Hibs 2-1 Aberdeen during the week before the regular League Cup groups began, meaning a playoff would be needed to decide the destiny of the trophy. This was played 60yrs ago today (so actually in autumn) at Pittodrie: Wednesday 2nd September 1964 Summer Cup, Final, Playoff Aberdeen 1-3 Hibernian at Pittodrie (23,000) Winchester / Hamilton, Scott Cormack Aberdeen would have to wait another 6yrs before landing their first major trophy since 1955. Edited September 2 by HibeeJibee 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piquet Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 (edited) I found this on Twitter. @footballmemorys is the source. No idea of the date. Edited September 3 by Piquet 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 85yrs ago: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 2 hours ago, Piquet said: I found this on Twitter. @footballmemorys is the source. No idea of the date. Going by the platform and large attendance it's almost certainly the Billy Graham Crusade in 1955.Most of his events were in Glasgow - at the Kelvin Hall plus a couple of nights at Ibrox and Hampden - but he also had came to the capital: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 (edited) 16 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: Recall we left the Summer Cup of 1964 ago at the Final stage, after it got delayed due to the Aberdeen typhoid epidemic... it then finished Aberdeen 3-2 Hibs and Hibs 2-1 Aberdeen during the week before the regular League Cup groups began, meaning a playoff would be needed to decide the destiny of the trophy. This was played 60yrs ago today (so actually in autumn) at Pittodrie: Wednesday 2nd September 1964 Summer Cup, Final, Playoff Aberdeen 1-3 Hibernian at Pittodrie (23,000) Winchester / Hamilton, Scott Cormack Aberdeen would have to wait another 6yrs before landing their first major trophy since 1955. I was there. A disappointed wee loon. Not for the first, or last, time either. ETA: As far as I'm aware that's the only programme the Dons issued in the whole competition. Edited September 3 by Jacksgranda 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 (edited) Yep definitely Wednesday 20th April 1955... there is 7mins of footage here, is perhaps the earliest colour film of Tynecastle: Full record for 'TO GOD BE THE GLORY' (3595) - Moving Image Archive catalogue (nls.uk) Tommy Walker the Hearts manager at that time appears. He'd been a trainee minister before WWII and lay missioner - latterly an elder for many years at St George's West on Shandwick Place IIRC. This was apparently also the occasion which inspired the Hearts Song (to tune "Blessed Assurance"). Here are some news clippings and other photos (last pair are of Cliff Barrows the choirmaster and closed circuit TV relay to the Usher Hall): Edited September 3 by HibeeJibee 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaspinnernet2 Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Aberdeen striker Ernie Winchester 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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megaspinnernet2 Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Alan Gilzean [9] scores for Scotland against England at Hampden in 1964. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaspinnernet2 Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Greenock Morton's Scandinavian players at Cappielow in the 1960s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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