ScottyDee1893 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 11 hours ago, Eednud said: This photo, featuring Kenny Dick, is from August 1968 and shows the players who took part in a Forfar Athletic trial game at Station Park. Back row (from left) – Carrie, Grimshaw, Phillips, S Dick, Fyffe, Hamilton. Second-top row – Junior, T Davis, Wyles, Junior, Junior. Third-top row – McKenzie, Junior, Junior, Knox, Milne, Mackle. Front – Harvey, K Dick, J Young, R Davis, May, Gordon. A very young Archie Knox in the second front row, would go on to manage arguably Forfar's best ever side. Incidentally Kenny Dick was the referee at one of my grandsons Sunday Boys league game just a couple of years ago. Couldn't move outside of the centre circle mind you but fair play for still wanting to give something back to the game at that age. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flybhoy Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 "Oh well you may recall, or may have read somewhere... a Racing player was attacked. By big Tam Gemmell, the gentle giant...the Glasgow Celtic full back..." Scotland v England 1970, Emlyn Hughes in the background 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flybhoy Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Germany 2 Scotland 0 at Euro 92, like the opening game against The Netherlands we blew two or three guilt edged chances at 0-0 and were desperately unlucky to lose both matches to the then European and World Champions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 57 years ago today... Monday 8th February 1965 Floodlight opening ES Clydebank 1-5 Sunderland at New Kilbowie Park, Clydebank 11,500 "East Stirlingshire & Clydebank" to give them their full name hanselled the new floodlighting at Kilbowie before an impressively large crowd. Their opponents were English First Division outfit Sunderland, who'd been promoted as Second Division runners-up the previous season. Illustrating a different age Clydebank fulfilled a massive Scottish Cup replay versus Hibs before a record crowd only 48hrs later. That such a game even happened reflects amongst the most controversial episodes in post-war Scottish football Clydebank had an SFL club until 1931 after which junior football was the limit. However in 1964 investors the Steedman brothers bought-up East Stirlingshire, merged them with Clydebank Juniors, renamed and relocated them, and brought SFL football back to Bankies. Legal challenges ended the merger after 1 season. 'Shire returned to Falkirk, and after 12 months in the Combined Reserve League competition Clydebank joined SFL in their own right. They became Airdrie United in 2002. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Older fans had to put up with this sort of stuff in the 'sixties. Thankfully things, and the songs, have changed. Released on the Orange Hallmark label too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 52 years ago today... Saturday 7th February 1970 Scottish Cup, Second Round Forfar Athletic 0-7 Rangers at Station Park, Forfar 10,780 Forfar Athletic set their all-time record attendance, but on the pitch it was day to forget as their visitors ran rampant. MacDonald, Stein, Penman, a Johansen penalty, Greig's brace and Jardine did the damage. Rangers lost 3-1 at Celtic in QFs. Today the capacity at Station Park is under 7,000. Fittingly staunch advert for Parkers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 7 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said: Older fans had to put up with this sort of stuff in the 'sixties. Thankfully things, and the songs, have changed. Released on the Orange Hallmark label too. Have they? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 12 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said: Older fans had to put up with this sort of stuff in the 'sixties. Thankfully things, and the songs, have changed. Released on the Orange Hallmark label too. There was a corresponding Celtic LP "The Holy Ground of Glasgow Celtic" , also released on the orange Hallmark label and featuring such sub Glen Daly guff as 'The Merry Ploughboy', 'Sean, South of Garryowen' & 'We're All Off to Dublin'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 23 minutes ago, kennie makevin said: There was a corresponding Celtic LP "The Holy Ground of Glasgow Celtic" , also released on the orange Hallmark label and featuring such sub Glen Daly guff as 'The Merry Ploughboy', 'Sean, South of Garryowen' & 'We're All Off to Dublin'. Both albums unavailable in any good record store! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 14 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: 57 years ago today... Monday 8th February 1965 Floodlight opening ES Clydebank 1-5 Sunderland at New Kilbowie Park, Clydebank 11,500 "East Stirlingshire & Clydebank" to give them their full name hanselled the new floodlighting at Kilbowie before an impressively large crowd. Their opponents were English First Division outfit Sunderland, who'd been promoted as Second Division runners-up the previous season. Illustrating a different age Clydebank fulfilled a massive Scottish Cup replay versus Hibs before a record crowd only 48hrs later. That such a game even happened reflects amongst the most controversial episodes in post-war Scottish football Clydebank had an SFL club until 1931 after which junior football was the limit. However in 1964 investors the Steedman brothers bought-up East Stirlingshire, merged them with Clydebank Juniors, renamed and relocated them, and brought SFL football back to Bankies. Legal challenges ended the merger after 1 season. 'Shire returned to Falkirk, and after 12 months in the Combined Reserve League competition Clydebank joined SFL in their own right. They became Airdrie United in 2002. Interesting noting the heights of the Sunderland players, these days most sides would contain several 6ft+ guys. Times have changed. ES Clydebank autographs from that single season in Scottish football (centre pages of an old autograph book)> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 5 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Both albums unavailable in any good record store! When did the Green Brigade split off from the Green and White Brigade? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: When did the Green Brigade split off from the Green and White Brigade? White left about 1970. Musical differences. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 20 hours ago, Flybhoy said: Germany 2 Scotland 0 at Euro 92, like the opening game against The Netherlands we blew two or three guilt edged chances at 0-0 and were desperately unlucky to lose both matches to the then European and World Champions. Does that mean they felt really bad about missing them? I do remember us playing well against Germany and passing up a few chances. Are you sure the Dutch game was similar though? I recall that as a decent performance from which we might have held out for 0-0 but didn't quite manage it. However, I can't say I remember us having a string of chances. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 7 hours ago, kennie makevin said: There was a corresponding Celtic LP "The Holy Ground of Glasgow Celtic" , also released on the orange Hallmark label and featuring such sub Glen Daly guff as 'The Merry Ploughboy', 'Sean, South of Garryowen' & 'We're All Off to Dublin'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said: Maybe it's a republican "Krakatoa, East of Java". (Oddly enough Krakatoa isn't actually east of Java - nor was Sean South actually from Garryowen). 22 hours ago, Flybhoy said: against The Netherlands we blew two or three guilt edged chances at 0-0 1 hour ago, Monkey Tennis said: Does that mean they felt really bad about missing them? Gullit-edged, surely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 23 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: 57 years ago today... Monday 8th February 1965 Floodlight opening ES Clydebank 1-5 Sunderland at New Kilbowie Park, Clydebank 11,500 "East Stirlingshire & Clydebank" to give them their full name hanselled the new floodlighting at Kilbowie before an impressively large crowd. Their opponents were English First Division outfit Sunderland, who'd been promoted as Second Division runners-up the previous season. Illustrating a different age Clydebank fulfilled a massive Scottish Cup replay versus Hibs before a record crowd only 48hrs later. That such a game even happened reflects amongst the most controversial episodes in post-war Scottish football Clydebank had an SFL club until 1931 after which junior football was the limit. However in 1964 investors the Steedman brothers bought-up East Stirlingshire, merged them with Clydebank Juniors, renamed and relocated them, and brought SFL football back to Bankies. Legal challenges ended the merger after 1 season. 'Shire returned to Falkirk, and after 12 months in the Combined Reserve League competition Clydebank joined SFL in their own right. They became Airdrie United in 2002. I think that's Andy Roxburgh in the ES Clydebank line up. Wikipedia says he played for "East Stirlingshire" in 1964-65 but they would have been ES Clydebank that season Contractors Miller & Stables supplied the "drenchlighting" erected at Easter Road in 1954. The angled "drenchlighting" was installed at a few English grounds and Simon Inglis in his "Football Grounds of Great Britain" refers to it as "Scottish style". It is interesting to see the notes refer to a combined system- the Kilbowie floodlights were unique looking compared to other Scottish grounds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 73 years ago today... Wednesday 9th February 1949 Representative match British Army 3-0 Oxford University at Champion Hill, Dulwich Forces khaki defeated university blues in their annual contest. There were several Scots on parade including Gunner Fred Martin (RA/Aberdeen) who later got 6 caps for Scotland; Gunner Iain Jamieson (RA/Aberdeen); and instantly recognisable Driver Bobby Johnstone (RASC/Hibs) both a key member of the 'Famous Five' and later Scotland regular. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 (edited) Played that same afternoon... Wednesday 9th February 1949 Representative match Surrey 4-3 Royal Navy at Selhurst Park, London Edited February 9, 2022 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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