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On 20/04/2020 at 10:25, JockB said:
post a picture 1 picture why junior football was / is great.
looking forward to seeing the positive replies like on the abundance of great facebook pages dedicated to the juniors .
my submission as a mostly lanarkshire and north east supporter this goal was spectacular could of graced any final anywhere in the world.
great celebrations with a whole village in the background celebrating.
great stuff.
cheers
Are you bored ? I don't think a photo could show why a level of football is/was great.
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On 10/04/2020 at 14:10, Arch Stanton said:
The road at the away end was elevated as it crossed the railway line which ran behind the main stand. When you entered the stadium you were at the top of the terracing.
A few folk used to try and watch the match for free from that road. Sometimes saw the police moving them along.
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31 minutes ago, bennett said:
How about no splits.
Sorry.....
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This league is going to benefit Scottish football, and I just wonder what the leagues will look like in a few years when the best teams have started moving up into the Lowland League or even the SPFL.
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On 07/03/2020 at 21:23, Anfield 1977 said:
Ally MacLeod scored his last goal as a Third Lanark player versus Dundee in a League Cup tie on 10th August 1963 at Cathkin.
He failed to find the net during his time at Ayr United but scored from a penalty for Queen of the South at St Mirren in a reserve match on 13th April 1992. Thats a gap approaching twenty nine years - but I am sure you will say reserve matches don't count!
He was 61 years old when he scored the penalty !
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Dumbarton of course had the three Coyle brothers in their team, though I think only ever two at a time.
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Match details:I was at the first game at Pittodrie. We were 2-nil up and cruising with about two minutes to go , but ended up drawing 2-2. McGhee scored one of their goals I think. Apart fae Andy Ritchie , the thing I remember most about Morton fae that era is Jim Tolmie’s mental hair.
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Looks like a match on an overseas pre-season tour to me. "I N" on the banner maybe Internazionale ?Jimmy Johnstone in action in what looks like a pre season friendly in a junior/amateur ground. I’m sure someone will know the details.
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Motherwell toured Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil in 1928. Picture of touring party plus stuff from first game of tour at River Plate. More here.
Love this ! Better marking of Sposito was required though IMHO.
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Keith Peacock, the first substitute in England, came on to replace an injured goalkeeper in August 1965.Subs weren't allowed at all until the 1970s, then it was one per team, then two, and so on. If a goalkeeper (or any player) got injured in the past then it was just a case of chucking someone else on in their place and rejigging things.The notion of have lots of subs for every position is a modern thing.
As already mentioned Archie Gemmill was the first sub in Scotland, in August 1966, replacing Jim Clunie.
Subs were only allowed to be used to replace injured players in the early days, rather than for tactical reasons.
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He was some player though [emoji6].Mabbutt seems a big old unit these days0 -
Wright, a good player, was signed 18 months later.I thought it looked a bit like Brian Wright but wasn't sure if he was actually at Motherwell at the time.
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A teenage Andy Walker shielding the ball from the Clydebank player whose name escapes me, the name Brian Maher springs to mind but probably wrong.
There was a John Maher in the team, but Stewart Auld sprang to my mind when I saw this photo.0 -
Match programme for Clydebank v Rangers 12 April 1986. The Bankies first and only victory over Rangers. 2-1. I believe Souness had agreed to take the Rangers manager's job, but the team had been picked by Alex Totten.
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I seem to remember Clydebank switching quite a few of their home matches to away ones when the Kilbowie pitch was suffering badly during one winter of a Premier League campaign in the mid- 80s. They also had a run of home games towards the end of that season. I'll try to find out the details.
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They played 5 consecutive away matches during the winter of season 1985/86. Taking games either side of that into consideration it was 8/10 aways.
They then finished the season with 6 consecutive home matches, expanding to 7/8.
Beating Rangers did not prevent them finishing bottom of the league. However, league reconstruction was hurriedly planned in order to save the full-time players of Motherwell (as they had looked like being bottom dogs) from being relegated and therefore part-time Clydebank gratefully prepared for a 3rd ever season in the top flight.
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Only found the shirt which includes the sponsor's name.Unfortunately, given the clip above, Hibs became the first senior side in Scotland, maybe the UK, to have sponsors (Bukta) on the front of their jerseys just a few years after that Drybrough Cup Final. TV companies didn't want them wearing it when their games were on the box, so they had to use an alternative purple jersey. Think it had white sleeves with a yellow stripe down them.
The Bukta logo was reduced in size for televised matches.
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Buy a megaphone so you can be heard shouting on your favourites.
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Revenge for the year before when Hearts won 3-2 on aggregate.Eamonn Bannon, with hair, converting a penalty for Hearts at Cappielow in 1978. Morton won the game 4-1, and the overall League Cup tie 7-2 on aggregate.
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The reviews suggest these are, "fantastic"; "very good and versatile", "(a) tape mesure [sic],brought as a joke", and resulting in "one happy brother." [emoji2]How big an idiot would you need to be to buy this? There’s an easy way to find out.
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They were up 1-0 at half time through a Les Barr penalty. Livingstone also hit the post before Rangers came good in the second half.They beat Hibs at Links Park in 1975. Came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2. They then got to the League Cup semi final but lost 5-1 or so to Rangers. Might have scored first in that one, maybe even leading at half-time?0 -
Davie Miller, Hugh McCann, Sandy Thomson, Frank Liddell, Euan Stewart, Brian McGarry. Front row – Billy Morrison, Donny Wilson, Rab Russell, Gordon Forrest, Billy Williamson.
This is the Alloa team pictured before their 25th December game against Cowdenbeath in 1976, the last time Christmas Day football matches were played in Scotland. Alloa kicked off at the Recs at 11 am before a crowd of 731 and won 2-1.
Clydebank played St Mirren the same day before 7,500 which must have been a squeeze at Kilbowie...
The Bankies archive states the attendance as 7675.
The Herald feature in 2014 reckons the attendance was officially 10,000, but likely to have been higher.
Clydebank home attendances that season were around 1500-4000 depending on opposition.
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A folical titan!
Not anymore [emoji16].
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On 22/12/2019 at 21:15, The_Kincardine said:
Aye. Let's gloss over their former manager and player taking Scotland to the 1978 WC Finals.
...and the former star striker John Sludden
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The senior club did not win anything during the 1920s and 30s but the junior team won a few trophies between 1929/30 and the early to mid 1940s. I can't find any photos of these trophies.
Honours
Scottish Junior Cup: Winners: 1941–42
West of Scotland Cup: 1929–30, 1949–50
Intermediate League: 1929–30
Central League: 1934–35, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1944–45, 1949–50
Glasgow Dryburgh Cup: 1929–30, 1932–33, 1934–35
Pompey Cup: 1951–52, 1960–61
Evening Times Cup: 1934–35, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1944–45, 1949–50
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The Terrible Journalism & Tom English Thread
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Posted
Skysport's Football News webpage has a reporter confused about the league sizes as well:
But Budge's proposed changes to the current 12-12-12-10 structure would solve what the plan describes as the "much debated unfairness and unjustness of relegating clubs as a result of the early termination of season 2019/20".