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How many games have you seen, supporting your team that have been genuinely historic? Games that will be remembered and talked about for generations to come.

With East Fife, I'd probably only say there's been three.

1) East Fife 1-0 Queen's Park 2003

It was only coming 2nd in the 3rd division to get promoted but the whole circumstances surrounding it meant it was one of the most dramatic promotion winning games I've seen/heard of in Scottish football. It was a four way fight for the league all season and we had to wait for injury time for Kenny Deuchar to nod in the goal that got us promoted. Any one of four teams could have won the championship going into the last day and any permutation of two out of four could have been promoted.

2) East Stirlingshire 0-3 East Fife 2008

Again, it was only winning the 3rd division but it was just East Fife's second championship win ever and the first in 60 years.

3) Aberdeen 3-3 East Fife (EF win 4-3 on pens) 2011

We've beaten a few SPL teams in the cups in my time and we beat St Mirren away from home but going to Pittodrie and winning felt much bigger. The last really big cup win for East Fife seems was probably beating Hibs at Easter Road in the 80s which people still mention but I wasn't around for that. The Aberdeen game feels like it'll achieve the same kind of status. The fact that we'd already knocked out Dunfermline in the previous round and the way the game went; we went 1-0 up, then went 2-1 down, came back to 3-2 then lost a goal at the death. And even in penalties, we were 2-0 up after 2, back to 2-2 after 4, was just so dramatic.

1. Airdrie: 811
2. Arbroath: 801
3. Stenhousemuir: 622
4. East Fife: 608
5. Dumbarton: 594
6. Stirling: 565
7. Brechin: 518
8: Forfar: 510
9: Albion Rovers: 466
10. Cowdenbeath: 386

Not at the end yet but at least there's no bumper 'deciders' to skew the figures. Pretty poor all round I would say. There's no bigger sides with bigger supports to boost the numbers but it's not as though having a Morton or a Raith in the league would make a massive difference in general. Decent crowds for Stenny I'd say. They're usually relatively lower than the likes of East Fife and Dumbarton I'd have thought. Maybe not. Arbroath's is decent too but if we'd just won the 3rd and went challenging straight away for the league, I'd be a bit disappointed with 801 average.

Pretty important game for both teams on Saturday. With Stenny at home to Albion Rovers, you'd expect them to pick up 3 points. A defeat here could spell the end of the play-off chances for either side.

Brechin had the better of the game recently at Bayview but couldn't capitalise. That was one of our poorer recent performances and hopefully we'll put in a performance closer to the way we played at Dumbarton on Saturday. With both teams having a bit of an up and down season, it's difficult to call and could go either way.

I'm not sure if Stevie Campbell and/or Stevie Hislop will be back available but McCormack and White have played well in the last two games and Scot Dalziel had a stormer on Saturday so I'd be tempted just to stick with the same side as started against Dumbarton...

Brown
Durie - McCormack - White - Cook
Linn - Smith - Janzyck - Sloan
Wallace - Dalziel

BRAZIL:

GK 1 Félix
DF 2 Brito
DF 16 Everaldo
DF 4 Carlos Alberto ©
MF 5 Clodoaldo
DF 6 Wilson Piazza
MF 7 Jairzinho
MF 8 Gérson
FW 9 Tostão
FW 10 Pelé
FW 11 Rivelino
Manager:
Mário Zagallo


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GK 1 Iker Casillas ©
RB 15 Sergio Ramos
CB 3 Gerard Piqué
CB 5 Carles Puyol
LB 11 Joan Capdevila
DM 16 Sergio Busquets
DM 14 Xabi Alonso
RW 6 Andrés Iniesta
AM 8 Xavi
LW 18 Pedro
CF 7 David Villa
Manager:
Vicente del Bosque

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