[tamthebam]

Was it possibly the last game at El Stadio del Ferry Road last night?

My first trip to City Park was about 20 years ago to see a charity match between Dean Hibs Supporters and a Hibs Legends team. Hibs Chairman David Duff squeezed into a shirt and disgraced the pitch for about ten minutes- he made John Clark look like Omar Kader! (not sure if Mr Rodier played- it did say Hibs LEGENDS )

There were various trips to City Park after that for EOSL matches later on. You got 2 trips a season as Craigie also played there but City tended to draw 0-0 with Craigie in dull games and the Spartans encounters were better affairs. I remember Chris Seeley popping in a delightful free kick at the Ferry Road end one season to give City a rare win at City Park and I always enjoyed Brian's (or were they made by Mrs Burns?!) sandwiches in the tea room in the old stand at half time!

I also saw Steve Archibald get booked playing for East Fife there in a Cup game and I was also at the Livvy game, which attracted a good crowd (rare for Livvy, I know!).

Anybody got any special memories of the old place?

[caledoniaman]

WJR, on May 29 2008, 17:50, said:

Manny Dorado going face down in the dubs and coming up blacker than Marvin Andrews - "There's only two Marvin Andrews"

Stewart Gilmour being caught rehanded climbing over the fence to try and find some excuse to get the St. Mirren game moved.

The ball falling to Jonny Seeley 5 yds out in the dying seconds when the game did go ahead at CP.

and

THAT soft foul outside the box that was never a penalty against the Uni this season and Sammy continually moaning that the wee teams never get any decisions against Spartans at CP

and not fogetting the Mickey moments, in particular, "F*ck going to Paisley on a wet Tuesday night" minutes before the ball fell to Jonnny!

I've only been following Spartans since 2006 but I'd say "all of it". Even the pishing rain and sleet. The lot. Whilst the new academy will be brilliant, I daresay in a few years we'll all be nostalgic for old flawed grounds like City Park. I fondly remember some of the old junior grounds from when I was a teenager. Particularly Forresters Park in Tranent. Get a few hundred in that ground and the place was buzzing.

[Milevskiy]

Aye, Clyde played Spartans in the Scottish Cup, late 90's and it was a 1-1 draw IIRC. We won the replay 5-0.

Can remember it being a tidy wee ground.

[chico]

shite hole. thank f**k the ground wasn't wetter on the banking the day of that cup tie.

[caledoniaman]

chico, on May 29 2008, 21:11, said:

shite hole. thank f**k the ground wasn't wetter on the banking the day of that cup tie.

Aye. Wouldnae have wanted you slipping once you'd jumped over the fence, would we.....

[chico]

caledoniaman, on May 29 2008, 21:15, said:

Aye. Wouldnae have wanted you slipping once you'd jumped over the fence, would we.....

aye very good. myself and many other St Mirren fans were fleeced for the ticket price for that god forsaken pit that wasn't remotely suitable for a scottish cup tie.

[Simplistic]

well I never saw Spartans lose at CP so ill be holding onto that!!

[tamthebam]

Talking of holes...My memories of Love Street aren't exactly fond... getting stones and coins thrown at us by wee neds with a polis watching it all and doing hee-haw.
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............................and I got a comp so didn't give St Mirren any money

[Waspie]

A great old ground with a proud history. Hosted league football with Edinburgh City circa 1935-47 then the link with Ferranti before they got into the SFL. Plenty of big Scottish Cup occasions there with Spartans in more recent times and a few generations of Edinburgh amateur footballers will miss it having played cup finals there. It even made it into an Irvine Welsh novel for that . It was a shame the old stand was condemned for so long then knocked down, that was a real piece of history as well.
My only bad memory of the place was Alloa's shambolic defeat there in the cup a few years ago, a disaster. Outweighed by the good memories though. RIP City Park.

[caledoniaman]

I posted a thread about the end of CP yesterday on Hearts Kickback.

Some great nostalgic posts about the old ground.
http://www.hmfckickb...ead.php?t=16375