Jump to content

Favourite quirks of Scottish stadiums.


Recommended Posts

2 hours ago, kingjoey said:

I’ve just watched the Hearts v Celtic Cup Final from 1956. I noticed that a huge amount of fans behind the goal at the East End of the ground celebrated when a Hearts scored their first goal. This led me to wondering when that end of the ground became the exclusive domain of the Celtic support. Does anyone know? Flybhoy?

I was born in 1976 mate.....

 

Being an amateur Scottish Football and Celtic history enthusiast/geek it appears the East Terrace was where Celtic fans graduated for games v Rangers sort of post war with, naturally the Rangers fans gathered at the opposite/West end of the ground, the supporters of each side got into this habit of using, mostly those ends in other games at Hampden although, archive footage would show, even as recently as the 80's when playing 'smaller' clubs they would fill both ends, occupying 90% of the ground at times. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

16 minutes ago, Flybhoy said:

I was born in 1976 mate.....

 

Being an amateur Scottish Football and Celtic history enthusiast/geek it appears the East Terrace was where Celtic fans graduated for games v Rangers sort of post war with, naturally the Rangers fans gathered at the opposite/West end of the ground, the supporters of each side got into this habit of using, mostly those ends in other games at Hampden although, archive footage would show, even as recently as the 80's when playing 'smaller' clubs they would fill both ends, occupying 90% of the ground at times. 

I wasn’t suggesting that you are an old git like me, just that you might know about it. Definitely a large number of Hearts fans behind the East goal in 1956. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 15/10/2018 at 11:31, PauloPerth said:

Amazing to think they’re up there in the major honours list for Scottish football with 4 major trophies. The last was as recent as 1955, which is good going considering a lot of the smaller clubs who have a bit of historical success did it in the late 1800’s etc.

That old Bayview must have been rocking with 22,500 in it for their record crowd!

My first trip to Bayview was for a Scottish Cup QF tie with Dundee in 1970. I think the crowd was around 16,000 but the old ground seemed packed with half the crowd made up of visiting supporters. The Dee won 1-0 but failed at the SF stage losing 2-1 to Celtic with Lou Macari netting the winner. Dundonian Derek McKay made al the headlines in the final though scoring twice as the Dons triumphed 3-1. Incidently Dundee's semi final defeat to Celtic was the first of five semi final meetings the teams contested between 1970 & 1977 with Celtic winning them all

Link to comment
Share on other sites

In an age where clubs are increasingly knocking down their old grounds and building generic stadiums in out of town industrial estates, one of my favourite quirks of Easter Road is that it's sandwiched right in the thick of it all, surrounded by beautiful old churches and sandstone tenements. 

Hibs-05.jpg.51a1341b226ee7290d72194810e9b439.jpg

5bc66f77a0128_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_53_01.png.8e56d404943625282b29436537aabc69.png

5bc66f81824bf_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_55.23copy.thumb.jpg.0f6433e42557f33d945fa433cd0649b9.jpg

5bc66f9334070_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_58.27copy.png.1a9dab13ebbea776e319b94d779cf138.png

Edited by Austinho
Link to comment
Share on other sites

20 minutes ago, Austinho said:

In an age where clubs are increasingly knocking down their old grounds and building generic stadiums in out of town industrial estates, one of my favourite quirks of Easter Road is that it's sandwiched right in the thick of it all, surrounded by beautiful old churches and sandstone tenements. 

Hibs-05.jpg.51a1341b226ee7290d72194810e9b439.jpg

5bc66f77a0128_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_53_01.png.8e56d404943625282b29436537aabc69.png

5bc66f81824bf_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_55.23copy.thumb.jpg.0f6433e42557f33d945fa433cd0649b9.jpg

5bc66f9334070_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_58.27copy.png.1a9dab13ebbea776e319b94d779cf138.png

Yep. Exactly where a football club should be, at the heart of its community.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

9 hours ago, Austinho said:

In an age where clubs are increasingly knocking down their old grounds and building generic stadiums in out of town industrial estates, one of my favourite quirks of Easter Road is that it's sandwiched right in the thick of it all, surrounded by beautiful old churches and sandstone tenements. 

Although when Hibs and Hearts moved to Easter road and Tynecastle they were stuck out on the fringes of the city like McDiarmid park is these days

 

Edited by topcat(The most tip top)
Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, paul wright scores said:

Not sure, probably sometime in the 90s.

I remember going to Easter Road in 1982 and they never opened the away end for us, so we had to walk away round the back of that terracing, then come down it to get behind the goals.   We actually ended up in the small enclosure in from of the main stand.  There were only about 50-60 Killie fans there that day as we were  garbage that season and got relegated.

Big D equalised for us about 8 minutes from time, after which a good number of the Hibs "fans"ran round the back of the benches behind the goals and the main stand to "meet" the Killie fans.  Lovely!!

it was well before the 90s.

I was thinking 70s?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

9 hours ago, Austinho said:

In an age where clubs are increasingly knocking down their old grounds and building generic stadiums in out of town industrial estates, one of my favourite quirks of Easter Road is that it's sandwiched right in the thick of it all, surrounded by beautiful old churches and sandstone tenements. 

Hibs-05.jpg.51a1341b226ee7290d72194810e9b439.jpg

5bc66f77a0128_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_53_01.png.8e56d404943625282b29436537aabc69.png

5bc66f81824bf_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_55.23copy.thumb.jpg.0f6433e42557f33d945fa433cd0649b9.jpg

5bc66f9334070_ScreenShot2018-08-13at21_58.27copy.png.1a9dab13ebbea776e319b94d779cf138.png

Aye, I've always liked that about ER and Tynecastle.

Rugby Park is basically the same, surrounded by housing. You can even access one of the stands from folks back gardens!

You can see the trees overhaning from one of the gardens on South Hamilton Street here.....

 

Image result for east stand rugby park kilmarnock houses

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Regarding Bayview, the far away end in the picture was the boundary between the ground and Aberhill Primary School.

When you viewed the boundary wall on the school side it showed signs of heave and leaned into the school by a noticeable degree, to have repaired the problem would have cost the club a fortune.

IMG_0778.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

51 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:

it was well before the 90s.

I was thinking 70s?

Found this in Wikipedia, so there is no guarantee it is correct. 

220px-East_Terrace.JPG
 
The East Stand, which was built in this form in 1985 and demolished in March 2010.

The height of the East Terrace was greatly reduced and a roof was erected in the mid-1980s. This work reduced the capacity to 27,000.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

Although when Hibs and Hearts moved to Easter road and Tynecastle they were stuck out on the fringes of the city like McDiarmid park is these days

 

Just a bit... 

 

image.png.f271aeee96ccf2a2282954c55ff18189.pngimage.thumb.png.4dfb749d5afccc42452a6d830db0eb5b.png

Edited by Mr. X
Link to comment
Share on other sites

6 hours ago, doonhamer64 said:

What was the reason for moving away from Boghead?  Was the land sold for building houses?

Ground (much as I loved it) was no longer fit for purpose, plus it put us back in credit at the bank.

Sold to a housing developer, yeah.

EDIT: I'd give my right arm to see another game there.

Edited by Boghead ranter
Link to comment
Share on other sites

10 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

Although when Hibs and Hearts moved to Easter road and Tynecastle they were stuck out on the fringes of the city like McDiarmid park is these days

 

It's funny you mention that, because the last few times I've been passing McDiarmid I've been thinking how it's getting swallowed up by the development going on around it. It's certainly lost the feeling of being surrounded by fields and trees and being out on the edge of the glorious Perthshire countryside.

When the new development of 3000 houses or whatever on the opposite side of the bypass is finished, that's going to be completely the case.

So you've now got an out of town ground which isn't really out of town, but is also nowhere near anything useful like bus or train stations, nor pubs, cafes or restaurants.

Heed the warning Dons and Dee.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...