HibeeJibee Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Albion Rovers opened Cliftonhill on Christmas Day in 1919 - going down 2-0 to St Mirren in front of 7,000. Interestingly the Scotsman says 15,000 for your opener. Oddly enough all 3 Tayside clubs were in action on that day: Dundee in their usual Christmas Day game at Third Lanark, and Dundee United at home to Stenhousemuir. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainbowrising Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Albion Rovers opened Cliftonhill on Christmas Day in 1919 - going down 2-0 to St Mirren in front of 7,000. Interestingly the Scotsman says 15,000 for your opener. Oddly enough all 3 Tayside clubs were in action on that day: Dundee in their usual Christmas Day game at Third Lanark, and Dundee United at home to Stenhousemuir. Really interesting. I had no idea that Broxburn and other west Lothian teams played the likes of the DABS back then.I wonder about the background to Aberdeen being fined for not fielding a full team 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) Here are the tables for 1924-25, when the Scottish League reached its largest-ever extent of 57 clubs...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924–25_in_Scottish_football West Lothian is strongly well represented in the Second Division with Bo'ness, Bathgate, Broxburn and Armadale. Note the quartet of Dumfries & Galloway teams in the Third Division - QotS, Nithsdale, Solway Star (Annan) and Mid-Annandale (Lockerbie) - with the first 3 occupying the top 3 places. There were even 2 clubs in Dumbarton - as well as clubs in Clydebank, Helensburgh and Vale of Leven; the Borders and Clackmannanshire had Peebles and Clackmannan representing them; Lanarkshire counted Royal Albert and Dykehead as well as the current foursome; Renfrewshire counted Johnstone and Arthurlie as well as St Mirren and Morton; Ayrshire had Beith and Galston as well as Ayr and Kilmarnock. Aberdeen were mid-table and had a Scottish Cup SF replay v Hibs at Dundee on the midweek following... Edited December 28, 2016 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 HIS NAME IS LITERALLY ON THE BACK OF HIS SHIRT IN THIS PICTURE AND YOU STILL GET THE CAPTION WRONG YOU FUCKING FUCKS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babu Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 (edited) 19 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: Here are the tables for 1924-25, when the Scottish League reached its largest-ever extent of 57 clubs...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924–25_in_Scottish_football West Lothian is strongly well represented in the Second Division with Bo'ness, Bathgate, Broxburn and Armadale. Note the quartet of Dumfries & Galloway teams in the Third Division - QotS, Nithsdale, Solway Star (Annan) and Mid-Annandale (Lockerbie) - with the first 3 occupying the top 3 places. There were even 2 clubs in Dumbarton - as well as clubs in Clydebank, Helensburgh and Vale of Leven; the Borders and Clackmannanshire had Peebles and Clackmannan representing them; Lanarkshire counted Royal Albert and Dykehead as well as the current foursome; Renfrewshire counted Johnstone and Arthurlie as well as St Mirren and Morton; Ayrshire had Beith and Galston as well as Ayr and Kilmarnock. Aberdeen were mid-table and had a Scottish Cup SF replay v Hibs at Dundee on the midweek following... I really enjoy seeing the old tables , with all those unfamiliar teams - which alas, no longer exist. IMO Some of our drabber sounding teams should really have adopted either one of their more ostentatious founding club appellations. e.g. We could be seeing crowd pulling headlines of: Our Boys V Orion or East End v Victoria but no, instead we have crappy Dundee V Aberdeen However, I do think we ought to forcibly change team names & colors, once in a while , might be more healthy - for a certain group of fans. I have other radical ideas , but I will not go there. Edited December 29, 2016 by babu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 19 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: Here are the tables for 1924-25, when the Scottish League reached its largest-ever extent of 57 clubs...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924–25_in_Scottish_football West Lothian is strongly well represented in the Second Division with Bo'ness, Bathgate, Broxburn and Armadale. Note the quartet of Dumfries & Galloway teams in the Third Division - QotS, Nithsdale, Solway Star (Annan) and Mid-Annandale (Lockerbie) - with the first 3 occupying the top 3 places. There were even 2 clubs in Dumbarton - as well as clubs in Clydebank, Helensburgh and Vale of Leven; the Borders and Clackmannanshire had Peebles and Clackmannan representing them; Lanarkshire counted Royal Albert and Dykehead as well as the current foursome; Renfrewshire counted Johnstone and Arthurlie as well as St Mirren and Morton; Ayrshire had Beith and Galston as well as Ayr and Kilmarnock. Aberdeen were mid-table and had a Scottish Cup SF replay v Hibs at Dundee on the midweek following... Nice to see the forces of Hunnery keeping the **** down. Always cheated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakebite Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 I see Murdo MacLeod is on Radio Clyde as well now. How many clueless, ignorant, Old Firm dinosaurs can you fit in on one show? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 13 minutes ago, Snakebite said: I see Murdo MacLeod is on Radio Clyde as well now. How many clueless, ignorant, Old Firm dinosaurs can you fit in on one show? how big is the studio 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Utter fuckin dross 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 The Sunday Mail has 13 pages about the Old Firm game. Plus ça change 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambling syd rumpo Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 The Scotsman's sub-editor wasn't paying very close attention to the Dundee v St Johnstone game. Personally I'm happy to trust Dundee FC's official match report. They rarely get the score wrong. It might have been charitable to give Saints a goal, but it never actually happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 7 hours ago, rambling syd rumpo said: The Scotsman's sub-editor wasn't paying very close attention to the Dundee v St Johnstone game. Personally I'm happy to trust Dundee FC's official match report. They rarely get the score wrong. It might have been charitable to give Saints a goal, but it never actually happened. How is that even possible? Especially as the report has Hartley stating the score and saying it's good to keep a clean sheet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewh Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 3 hours ago, Dee Man said: How is that even possible? Especially as the report has Hartley stating the score and saying it's good to keep a clean sheet. Also says our last defeat was away to Ross County. It was at home, which is worse! They also called it a Tayside derby 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Also says our last defeat was away to Ross County. Ooft! We've not lost away to County since 2013/14.Our last away defeat was Aberdeen in the cup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambling syd rumpo Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 5 hours ago, Dee Man said: How is that even possible? Especially as the report has Hartley stating the score and saying it's good to keep a clean sheet. I suppose papers are economising on sub-editors, who are probably less experienced and under more pressure. The sub might not even have had time to read the report. It certainly wasn't the journalist's fault. They must cringe at mistakes like that. They usually get the blame for headlines. I was sitting next to Euan McArthur, who wrote the report, and he was certainly paying enough attention to know the score. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 ^^^^ Kens the score. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 15 hours ago, rambling syd rumpo said: The Scotsman's sub-editor wasn't paying very close attention to the Dundee v St Johnstone game. Personally I'm happy to trust Dundee FC's official match report. They rarely get the score wrong. It might have been charitable to give Saints a goal, but it never actually happened. Not as bad as Paul Mitchell on the BBC online highlights who thought the third goal was for St Johnstone... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38502272 Chris McLaughlin writes 177 words about a new Celtic signing. In discussing the transfers linked to it by the selling club he used the term "outfit" three times referring to teams from China, Armenia and Hungary. Legia Warsaw and Krasnodar are sides, while Celtic are a club. I'd call it informative if it wasn't so patronising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killiesquirrel Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 8 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38502272 Chris McLaughlin writes 177 words about a new Celtic signing. In discussing the transfers linked to it by the selling club he used the term "outfit" three times referring to teams from China, Armenia and Hungary. Legia Warsaw and Krasnodar are sides, while Celtic are a club. I'd call it informative if it wasn't so patronising. He refers to both Krasnodar and Legia Warsaw as clubs too. I assume he's edited it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 BBC Scotland have decided that Inverness are no longer playing Elgin in the Scottish Cup and will instead face East Fife. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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