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6 hours ago, Wee Willie said:

 

Was that game no televised?

I can remember when Leeds scored through Bremner that c**t Coleman commented, "1-0 Leeds" but said it like it was the first goal of many for Leeds.

In fairness, David Coleman also did exactly that when Jordan put us ahead against Peru in 1978.

He was no Mystic Meg.

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2 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:

They were friendly daft in those days, weren't they?

The number of games with English sides is huge.

With the advent of floodlight, it seems to have become very much the done thing to undertake a brief tour of England if you were eliminated from the cup (both cups generally stuck to the same weekends), playing Friday-Monday or similar.

We'll see more of it in the weeks and months to come.


Almost invariably that way around though.

Presumably coming up to Scotland in February, and the likely gates to be shared, were less appealing than doing it the other way about.

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I'm sure in the season Rangers won the CWC Celtic and Rangers both played home Euro semi finals on the same night. with a total attendance of around 150000.

Correct - and both games were live on TV. Rangers on STV with a 7.30 kickoff and Celtic on BBC with an 8.00pm kickoff. I was at Ibrox that night and made it home in time to watch the Celtic penalty shootout on the telly.

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20 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Presumably coming up to Scotland in February, and the likely gates to be shared, were less appealing than doing it the other way about.

In 1980/81 we played Arsenal at Love St after both clubs has been knocked out in R3 of their respective national cups. Arsenal won 3-2 in front of just under 10,000

http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1980&GameID=198102150

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What was the average attendance costs those days ?

It was mostly still an era when fans supported their local teams.    :(

Before the media hypnotized whole generations of weak minded individuals  into following 2 teams.

Most families still didn't have a (rented) TV

We had a B&W from Radio Rentals.

 

PS.    B&W is not  a model . It  means black and white ..  ;)

 

Only when fans start supporting their local teams again will Scottish football be rejuvenated, until that day,  it's  still on a downward spiral.

 

 

Most roads were almost car free - compared to today,        there weren't really that many of them.

 

 

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It's an interesting point.

In 1966-67, at the height of our powers, the aggregate average attendance of the 38 SFL clubs was 189,983.

Halfway through this season the aggregate average attendance of the 42 SPFL clubs was 224,851. In other words it's actually a fifth higher nowadays.

Difference is that 50yrs ago slightly under 1/3 of that was at Old Firm. Now it's almost 1/2. Over half a century Old Firm have grown from 60,000 to 105,000... meanwhile, despite there being four more of them, the rest have actually shrunk slightly from 130,000 to 120,000.


Admission is a big more complicated, IMO. It was cheap then but people weren't as well-off. It was supposedly better football but there was less to do instead.

Attendances are higher now despite it being costlier; despite flexible work patterns and competing leisure pursuits; despite individualism and a diminished sense of community; etc.

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3 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

It's an interesting point.

In 1966-67, at the height of our powers, the aggregate average attendance of the 38 SFL clubs was 189,983.

Halfway through this season the aggregate average attendance of the 42 SPFL clubs was 224,851. In other words it's actually a fifth higher nowadays.

Difference is that 50yrs ago slightly under 1/3 of that was at Old Firm. Now it's almost 1/2. Over half a century Old Firm have grown from 60,000 to 105,000... meanwhile, despite there being four more of them, the rest have actually shrunk slightly from 130,000 to 120,000.


Admission is a big more complicated, IMO. It was cheap then but people weren't as well-off. It was supposedly better football but there was less to do instead.

Attendances are higher now despite it being costlier; despite flexible work patterns and competing leisure pursuits; despite individualism and a diminished sense of community; etc.

I think a significant part in the overall increase which as you say is down mainly to boosted OF gates, is to do with  changes in consumer behaviour and the rise of the season ticket.

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Pars sting the Thistle in cup mauling

 

Dunfermline proved irresistible in their replay with Partick on Wednesday, rampaging past the Glasgow club 5-1. Delaney’s hat-trick, Robertson and Ferguson outdid Duncan’s early equaliser.

 

Elsewhere this midweek Clydebank drew 2-2 with Stirling Albion in the latest of their friendly matches. Turkey followed-up their draw with Spain last month by beating Eire at home in the European Nations Cup qualifiers while West Germany crushed Morocco in a friendly. There was Fairs Cup action in Frankfurt.

 

In news, HMS Renown – first of the Polaris-class of submarines – was launched. President Sukarno of Indonesia has resigned after over 20yrs, giving way to General Suharto after mounting internal pressure.

 

 

[Wed] Scottish Cup - Second Round, replay

Dunfermline Athletic 5-1 Partick Thistle (16,500)

 

[Tue] Friendly

Clydebank 2-2 Stirling Albion

 

[Tue] Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - Third Round, first leg

Eintracht Frankfurt 4-1 Ferencvaros (10,000)

 

[Wed] European Nations Cup qualifier

Turkey 2-1 Eire

 

[Wed] International friendly

West Germany 5-1 Morocco

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Business as usual - except for Celtic

 

There were few surprises across the league yesterday except at Annfield where lowly-placed Stirling Albion held rampant league leaders Celtic to a draw. With victory over St Mirren it gave renewed hope to Rangers who cut the gap. Ayr-Motherwell was waterlogged. Fewer than 200 people patronised the game at Ochilview.

 

Glasgow beat Bradford 4-1 in the annual school-boys inter-city game at Hampden.

 

There was Cup-Winners’ Cup action in Switzerland today, Servette defeating Bulgarian side Slavia.

 

 

First Division

Airdrieonians 1-4 Kilmarnock (2,595)

Ayr United P-P Motherwell

Clyde 2-1 Heart of Midlothian (3,963)

Dundee 0-0 Partick Thistle (5,254)

Dunfermline Athletic 3-3 Dundee United (6,596)

Hibernian 1-0 Aberdeen (18,532)

Rangers 3-0 St Mirren (21,875)

St Johnstone 2-1 Falkirk (3,112)

Stirling Albion 1-1 Celtic (15,358)

 

Second Division

Arbroath 2-1 Queen’s Park (1,368)

Brechin City 2-1 Berwick Rangers (290)

Clydebank 4-0 Stranraer (909)

East Stirlingshire 0-0 Montrose (278)

Greenock Morton 6-0 Alloa Athletic (3,181)

Hamilton Academical 3-0 East Fife (1,146)

Queen of the South 2-3 Dumbarton (959)

Raith Rovers 2-1 Albion Rovers (2,096)

Stenhousemuir 1-1 Cowdenbeath (181)

Third Lanark 6-2 Forfar Athletic (509)

 

[Sun] European Cup-Winners’ Cup, Third Round - First Leg

Servette 1-0 Slavia Sofia (8,330)

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Club and country: glory and defeat

 

Scotland won the annual Intermediate international against England last night with an impressive 3-2 win at St James’s Park, Newcastle. Deprived of Old Firm players due to European action the Scots played excellent football. Goals from Jim McCalliog, Peter Cormack and Jim Smith won a stuffy game which England had pegged-back to 1-1 with 10 minutes remaining. Having demolished Wales 6-0 away from home in November the Scots can rightly call themselves champions of Britain.

 

Scotland Youths, who beat their English counterparts 1-0 in the Victory Shield last month, lost the first leg of their European Youth Championships play-off 1-0 in Southampton. Joe Royle scored.

 

Celtic looked on course for a creditable draw with hopes of an impressive victory in Novi Sad, in the first leg of their European Cup Quarter-Final, until an uncharacteristic error from Tommy Gemmell gifted the Yugoslav’s a winner. He mis-hit a pass-back to Clark who was left stupefied by the move and Stanic scored easily. Celtic’s consolation lies in the knowledge a similar performance at home should see then through.

 

Rangers had better fortune at home to Zaragoza in their Cup-Winners’ Cup Quarter-Final first leg. Terrible weather marred the match which was played on a water-bound pitch lashed by gales and sleet, conditions which gave no pleasure to the Spaniards. Sandy Jardine in particular shone amid trying circumstances. Dave Smith and Willoughby had them 2-0 up within half-and-hour and the Gers saw it out well.

 

In domestic league action Queen’s Park and Cowdenbeath drew 2-2 on Tuesday, the match previously postponed in January. Ayr and Motherwell drew 3-3 yesterday, hastily rearranged from Saturday after waterlogging.

 

There were various other ties in the European, Cup-Winners’, Fairs, and International Football cups. Linfield’s semi-finals hopes are still alive. St Mirren beat Queen of the South in a friendly.

 

In news the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London opened yesterday. Clay Shaw, a former trade mart official from New Orleans, has been arrested in connection with President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

 

 

 

 

Intermediate International (at Newcastle)

England U23s 1-3 Scotland U23s (21,860)

 

European Youth Championships, qualifying playoff - first leg (at Southampton)

England U18s 1-0 Scotland U18s

 

European Cup, Third Round - first leg

Ajax 1-1 Dukla Prague (55,765)

Linfield 2-2 CSKA Sofia (10,136)

Vojvodina Novi Sad 1-0 Celtic (24,000)

Third Round - second leg

Real Madrid 0-2 Inter Milan (88,934) [aggregate: 0-3]

 

European Cup-Winners’ Cup, Third Round - first leg

Gyori Vasas ETO 2-1 Standard Liege (13,352)

Rangers 2-0 Real Zaragoza (60,531)

 

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Third Round - second leg

[Tue] Ferencvaros 2-1 Eintracht Frankfurt (30,000) [aggregate: 3-5]

[Wed] Dynamo Zagreb 0-0 Dynamo Pitesti (8,200) [aggregate: 1-0]

 

[Tue] International Football Cup, Semi-Finals - first leg

ADO Den Haag 1-0 Inter Bratislava (16,000)

 

First Division

Ayr United 3-3 Motherwell (1,881)

 

[Tue] Second Division

Queen’s Park 2-2 Cowdenbeath (570)

 

International friendly

Luxembourg 0-1 Switzerland B

 

Friendly

Queen of the South 0-3 St Mirren

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On 24/02/2017 at 13:19, Squirrelhumper said:

My dad said the Semi Final at Muirton was fun.....

It certainly was. I was in the old Muirton enclosure in front of the main stand, but the covered terrace opposite was an afternoon of mayhem. My recollection is that there was almost constant fighting between the two sets of fans there, and when the final whistle went I ran on the pitch and was chased off by a big bad Killie fan. Great days.

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On ‎19‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 21:40, kingjoey said:

I was one of the 108,000+ at the 1970 cup final against Celtic. Second back row of the old North Stand. Oh my!!!

I was on the terracing. Great day!

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On ‎20‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 07:45, kingjoey said:

Fantastic crowds at Easter Road, Firhill and Pittodrie. What surprises me, is that the Second Division crowds are as low then as they are now at most of the smaller teams. 

There may be a bigger crowd at Easter Road for the next round...

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