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Often goes unnoticed that the racist Palace fan, Matthew Simmons, who was a member of far right organisations, reacted in a similar way in court when found guilty of racially aggravated breach of the peace or something, leapt over the Dock and tried to have a swing at the prosecution lawyer. Cantona never hit the c**t hard enough.

David Speedie and Frank McAvennie manage to clumsily get in each others path and contrive to miss this absolute sitter as Scotland drew 0-0 with Australia in December 1985 in the play off for Mexico the following summer, thankfully it didn't matter in the end as the 2-0 win in the first leg at Hampden was a comfortable enough lead a rather poor Australian side never looked like recovering. My abiding memory of this match is pulling every trick in the book to try and get the day off school to watch this, a 9.00am kick off which was on Channel 4 for some bizarre reason, their first ever football match, my parents eventually relented although an hour in, such a poor match it was, school suddenly didn't seem that bad an option.

Oman Biyik gets up a seemingly insane height to head the only goal as Cameroon stun Argentina in the opening match of the same tournament, pretty sure his brother was one of the two men they had sent off that day.

Gianluca Vialli, who passed away a year ago today, against Austria at Italia 90.

Denmark at Mexico 86, sensational in the group stages taking maximum points against ourselves, West Germany and Uruguay, whom they battered 6-1, then inexplicably hammered 5-1 by Spain in the round of 16.

1-1, Calmac missed a sitter late on.

I did mate, born in 76. Grew up there till I left my parents in my early twenties. I went to St Margaret's primary in Cowie, the wee minibus used to pick up the Catholic children at the wee bus stop in front of the library, my earliest memory of realising I was 'different' to the rest of the people down there was, aged about 5 or 6, which would have been around the time of the IRA hunger strikers, standing waiting on said bus and a grown man, probably in his 40s, singing 'Could you go a chicken supper Bobby Sands' to a group of primary school children waiting on our bus, not having a clue who Sands was or what this meant I asked my dad that night why this guy was singing this to us, my old man to his credit accompanied me the following morning to the bus stop and, after pointing the guy out he threatened to rip his windpipe out if he ever tried it again which, naturally he didn't. Kevin's parents live up in the Hall Glen area of Falkirk now.

Hamilton absolutely battered the Albion last game at Forthbank, should have been out of sight by half time but, sheer dogedness and determination won a point that day, partly assisted by Kevin O'Hara missing a last minute penalty, would bite your hands off for a draw here given I was also at the 5-0 mauling at NDP in November. Fun fact, like myself Kevin O'Hara grew up in the village of Fallin, a mile from Forthbank stadium, it is a place that, to put it mildly is very 'staunch' so, I'd imagine having a name like he has would have been quite interesting down there, I got dogs abuse growing up there purely for being a Friday fish supper merchant despite not having a suspicious sounding name like he has. He's a good lad Kevin, I know his parents but, hopefully he obliges with an off day against his local side on Saturday.

We went to a boozer early the game Gary Hooper scored the injury time winner [2010 maybe?] I'm sure that game was a later kick off for some reason, we had been to the same pub a couple of times before games at Love Street, I was under the impression it was Davie Hay's pub but, not being from Paisley can't say for sure. That's the last time I've had a drink in the town due to the lack of watering holes near the ground. Thankfully being a virtual ever present at away matches since Covid my ticket is in the Celtic section today, I'll say to the others on the bus to say hiya to you and be well behaved.

Yeah, seem to recall he had pretty poor spells at both St Mirren and Dunfermline in the 1990s. I'm sure he's from Paisley as well is he not? Owns a pub in the town, been in it a couple of times before games against the Buddies.

That's plausible apart from the 'got battered' bit, probably got papped out after complaints from home fans but given level of CCTV and police even then no one is going to give someone a tanking at the football as you would obviously get lifted and a lengthy ban from supporting your club.

Was always going to provoke some interesting responses.

Explaining that you're going to a football match to watch your team is coming across as a p***k....okay.

The Davie Hay CSC in Paisley helped us out. A combination of Paisley postal addreses and previous purchase history for St Mirren means they manage to pull a few rabbits out the hat for us, we normally share a bus with them to Dingwall, Aberdeen etc and help them out with the odd ticket for other away trips, it's good to have friends in the right places isn't it. Delighted you're raging at this, see you tomorrow.

I remember getting a bit over excited after Dembele scored in Monchengladbach a few years ago and quickly apologising to the German supporters around me fearing getting my head kicked in but, on the contrary they were absolutely fine with me acting like a bit of a twat and actually some were asking for selfies with me which I found totally fucking bizarre

Aye there were a few Feyenoord fans in and around where I sit, pretty sound guys not a problem at all.

Our bus has 18 tickets for this, only 8 in the Celtic section, think this may be the first time ever we have had more tickets in the opposition support stands than ours, with the cutting of allocations becoming more and more common place you have to do what you have to.

Wonderful gesture to paint a French flag on the morning of the fixture in tribute to Dembele, Eduoard and N'tcham who have all scored winning goals against them in recent years.

Two instantly recognisable legends at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, both sadly no longer with us.

Mr President, VAR did not award Rangers a penalty today.

It's absolutely fucking horrendous eh? I was expecting it to be bad but it's even worse than I thought, a three row stand with a crap view and a running track, absolutely dreadful and bizarre set up, I know the football club are only tenants and would have had little or no input on design and facilities but it staggers me that people in charge of the club saw the plans and thought 'Yeah that'll do for us and help us expand our fanbase'.... I was at a Friday night fixture at Ainslie Park between the two sides a few years ago, just after lockdown I think and vaguely recall a decent crowd with a home support of two or three hundred, that today looked about double figures it has to be said, I suspect the dreadful ground has alienated a great deal of support for the club and even the numbers of visiting fans going on what I've read here and on social media. It comes as little surprise I'm afraid to hear of the clubs current financial crisis and, I'd opine the root cause is that fucking abomination of an athletics track with a football pitch in the middle they call home, sadly it would be little surprise if they were to fold or fall back into the Lowland League playing in front of a few dozen fans for eternity. There might be more to it than I know but surely ground sharing AP with Spartans would have been a better plan?

Dino Zoff, Marco Tardelli and Antonio Cabrini, World Cup winners that year in Spain, 1982. I

Branco at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, four years before the Brazilian midfielder almost decapitated Murdo McLeod with a free kick.

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