A Photographic History Of Scottish Football

[Stag Nation]

3 hours ago, hk blues said:

I didn't say they weren't friendly or welcoming here (quite the opposite in fact), but they also are guilty through ignorance of casual racism.  Examples would be saying 'Hey Joe" to all foreigners - Joe is the nickname Filipinos gave to American military.  And, in their local language the word for foreigner is 'Americano."  Low level casual racism and not something to get upset about but still.  Unlike you, I haven't witnessed much negativity to locals here from ex-pats but then again the Philippines is very American-centric and the major group of visible ex-pats here are the Americans. 

Imagine a country where all strangers are addressed as "Jimmy" ...

[DA Baracus]

Immigrants, not 'ex-pats'.

[hk blues]

17 hours ago, Stag Nation said:

Imagine a country where all strangers are addressed as "Jimmy" ...

Now you mention it, there are some similarities between Filipinos and Scots.  Most particularly hospitable nature of both - having seen that from the other side I can perhaps now understand that this isn't always comfortable for others.  

[Mr. X]

 

[kennie makevin]

27 minutes ago, Mr. X said:

 

Good to know that Celtic having their own referees has a long and distinguished history.

[Otis Blue]

On 11/08/2023 at 11:54, Stag Nation said:

Imagine a country where all strangers are addressed as "Jimmy" ...

Worked "dahn sarf" in London for a couple of years where I was known as the "sweaty sock" (=Jock).  Ironically, I had to attend conference calls with the Glasgow office so that I could translate for the cockney engineers what the Weegie draftsmen were trying to tell them.  They had a vague idea of where Glasgow was ... somewhere north of Watford possibly, where it was cold, rained a lot and inhabited by angry wee ginger folk ... not far wrong really, tbf ...

[HibeeJibee]

It was 115yrs ago today Rangers beat Dundee by coin toss after drawing 1-1 in the Scottish Exhibition Tournament final at Saughton, Edinburgh before 10,000 - in a temporary stadium of which only tantalising visual record survives:




          



     

[HibeeJibee]

Edinburgh City played their first-ever match 95yrs ago today... losing 5-2 at home to Queen's Park, whose fame they hoped to replicate as "amateurs of the east", in a contest also unveiling the new Marine Gardens stadium in Portobello.










Even at SFA's AGM today in 1913 there was dissatisfaction at the national team manager(s):




Meanwhile in 1938:

 

Edited August 13, 2023 by HibeeJibee

[AyrshireTon]

Ex-Morton player Joe Caven has passed away. Was part of the famous 63-64 promotion winning team and had the word "assist" been a thing back then, he'd have had loads of them for Allan McGraw's goals.

Myself and a number of others met him in Keith Social Club (below) during the 2003 Highland Tour (he lived in Nairn). Spoke to the fans that day in an impromptu Q&A - a genuinely nice guy.

[Dundee Hibernian]

Sad news: Joe Caven formed a great partnership with the late Allan McGraw over a short time, helping Morton into the First Division with a huge points total. 

Was reading about him the other day, and although born in the Central Belt and playing for many years with Airdrie, as @AyrshireTon says above, he settled in Nairn where he called his house 'Cappielow'.

[Ken Fitlike]

Dust still to settle after this skirmish

[SimonLichtie]

Hello. Long time lurker on this thread, and despite very rarely posting on here it formed part of my initial 'wouldn't it be good if there was more Arbroath related history stuff online' thinking a couple of years ago. This resulted in me taking things slightly too far, as I have a tendancy to do, and creating The Arbroath Archive. Most of the below is a copy and paste from press stuff a couple of weeks ago, because I'm a lazy b*****d and it's easier this way

The archive is now fully live and can be found here; Arbroath Archive. Below gives a rough idea of what we've got on there:

·  A record of every game we've played from 1878 until present day, with over 6400 total games in total, with game date (teams, subs, scorers, ref etc) where known, and highlights for modern day games

·  A match report for every almost every game with thousands of old reports from the Arbroath Herald & Arbroath Guide and dozens of other sources, as well as fan reports from the old arbroathfc.org.uk website for our games in the 90s and early 00s

·  A profile for every player who has played for the club containing their full playing record for the club as well as player info, a picture where we have it and a biography

·  Our all-time player appearance records, goalscorer records and clean sheet records

·  Hundreds of pictures, programme covers, a managerial timeline, hat trick heroes and lots more!

As well as the site itself, we will be looking to keep our social media pages fairly active with regular posts on a whole host of things, such as 'Guess the Player', 'On This Day', 'Did You Know?' etc. as well as hopefully further articles/ interviews in the future.

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On the Facebook/ Twitter pages I try to post twice a day; an 'On This Day' and something older/ different like the following.... it's this content that seems like it'd be of more interest to posters in this thread

Our manager Albert Henderson went to watch Alex Ferguson, then a part timer at St Johnstone, play in December 1963... unfortunately he'd been promoted to the first team that day and promptly scored a hat trick at Ibrox.... safe to say any sort of move was scuppered

In 1950, one of our players was fined for playing football in the street....

Gayfield in 1950

 

Shooting practice in January 1939.

The committee in April 1935.

Three of our fans in 1965.

Another copy and paste job below due to the aforementioned lazyness  

George Best at Gayfield!

One of the things we've been lucky to get our hands on is previously unseen highlights from the Arbroath v Arbroath Vics match played in August 1982 to mark the junior clubs centenary. The game, which was won 4-3 by the Vics with Best scoring two penalties, was captured on a VHS Camcorder from the Gayfield tunnel and the footage had been in the loft of former Arbroath Vics committee member Ed Collier for the past few decades. After Ed's passing last year his son, also named Ed, found the footage and gave us a copy.
The highlights are 20 minutes long with Best being prominent throughout. He wasn't the only 'well kent' face on display that day however, with both teams featuring plenty of players who still have lots of connections to the club and town of Arbroath itself.

 

[tamthebam]

On 13/08/2023 at 15:27, HibeeJibee said:

It was 115yrs ago today Rangers beat Dundee by coin toss after drawing 1-1 in the Scottish Exhibition Tournament final at Saughton, Edinburgh before 10,000 - in a temporary stadium of which only tantalising visual record survives:




          



     

The Sports Ground looks like it was in the same locus as Saughton Enclosure, home of Lothian Thistle for 20 years.

[Eednud]

1 hour ago, SimonLichtie said:

The archive is now fully live and can be found here; Arbroath Archive. Below gives a rough idea of what we've got on there:

A great effort. Well done.

[HibeeJibee]

Paisley '72:
 

 

[Arch Stanton]

45 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said:

Paisley '72:
 

 

Sadly, believe it or not, the current situation is even worse with no football played there at all.

The council demolished the pavilion housing the changing facilities and showers 2 years ago (with the promise of a modern replacement) and they've yet to get their finger oot. 

[Buddie Holly]

1 hour ago, Arch Stanton said:

Sadly, believe it or not, the current situation is even worse with no football played there at all.

The council demolished the pavilion housing the changing facilities and showers 2 years ago (with the promise of a modern replacement) and they've yet to get their finger oot. 

there used to be 20/25 pitches at the racecourse and now there are none,yep folks there isn’t one lined pitch left. only joggers,dog walkers and the scottish pipe band championship use it now

back in the seventies/eighties there were always a couple of hundred more fans at second half of games at love street after the racecourse football finished 

[Flybhoy]

On 10/08/2023 at 14:38, PossilYM said:

Charlie Nicholas turning up at Tory Party rally probably beats that by some distance.

That didn't actually happen. 

Bit of an urban myth that, Nicholas was at some charity thing connected to Arsenal and the witch was in attendance and she requested a picture with some of the celebrities at the event, one of which was Charlie, he spoke of how uncomfortable he was with it but felt like he couldn't really refuse as directors and management were in attendance. 

[Flybhoy]

What a goalkeeper this guy was for the Dons, after replacing Jim Leighton in 1988, Theo Snelders is probably best remembered for saving Anton Rogan's spot kick against Celtic in 1990, the first Scottish Cup final to go to penalties and, rather unfortunately pulling out of his debut for The Netherlands against West Germany about half an hour before kick off as he, basically had a massive case of stage fright or, to use a more Scottish term he shat his breeks.

I vaguely recall him spitting the dummy out a few years later when Aberdeen refused, initially to let him join Rangers, he did eventually join the **** but only made a handful of appearances as second choice to Andy Goram, do the Dons fans hold him in pretty dislikeable memories in similar fashion to others who went to Ibrox after Pittodrie as I recall David Robertson, Richard Foster and Ryan Jack getting severe stick.

[hk blues]

On 11/08/2023 at 18:15, Sergeant Wilson said:

Your racism bar is a bit low.

I apply the same to all aspects of my life.