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A Photographic History Of Scottish Football


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26 minutes ago, Pet Jeden said:

Even more impressive. Maybe some coaches came up from Ayr to support their Ayrshire neighbours .

In those days there probably was an element of that.   Maybe not coaches but many people would just pick a game they fancied watching and the Scottish Cup was an especially big draw for many supportersin those days. 

One of my grandfathers just chose a game he fancied to go to on a Saturday, including junior matches - he didn't support a specific team.  Fortunately my father made the right choice or I could have been a yahoo. 

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1 hour ago, paul wright scores said:

In those days there probably was an element of that.   Maybe not coaches but many people would just pick a game they fancied watching and the Scottish Cup was an especially big draw for many supportersin those days. 

One of my grandfathers just chose a game he fancied to go to on a Saturday, including junior matches - he didn't support a specific team.  Fortunately my father made the right choice or I could have been a yahoo. 

A yahoo ? Is that what supporters of Ayr, Ayr Super-Ayr get called ? 

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Was looking back at Scotland's 1998 qualifying stuff and the fact that David Hoppy Hopkin scored a couple at Pittodrie in the penultimate game, a 4-1 trouncing of Belarus.  A photo from this game is below.

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More interestingly, there is a further Scottish Football/Hollywood actor connection here in the fact that the guy on the right with the light blue shirt and blond hair is undoubtedly Stephen McKidd.  Stephen I believe,  at some point in his younger days signed for Motherwell (or had a trial with them) and is the big brother of actor Kevin McKidd.  

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9 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Was looking back at Scotland's 1998 qualifying stuff and the fact that David Hoppy Hopkin scored a couple at Pittodrie in the penultimate game, a 4-1 trouncing of Belarus.  A photo from this game is below.

Image result for david hopkin v belarus

More interestingly, there is a further Scottish Football/Hollywood actor connection here in the fact that the guy on the right with the light blue shirt and blond hair is undoubtedly Stephen McKidd.  Stephen I believe,  at some point in his younger days signed for Motherwell (or had a trial with them) and is the big brother of actor Kevin McKidd.  

second from the left of Number 7 , wearing red, is a young Joachim Low!

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On 03/07/2018 at 00:45, The Nightfly said:

Davie Cooper scoring a great individual goal in the 1979 Drybrough Cup Final.2709385.main_image.thumb.jpg.0159e2fb87414b9b596a80c2714d3fba.jpg

 

 

Think that’s the Scottish Cup Final that season. Rangers never had a special badge for the Drybrough Cup game. Also it looks like the wrong end for Cooper’s goal. I was there, but couldn’t have told you the admission prices - the Celtic wiki has a photo of a ticket showing £2 :lol: happy days.

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4 hours ago, The Mantis said:

Think that’s the Scottish Cup Final that season. Rangers never had a special badge for the Drybrough Cup game. Also it looks like the wrong end for Cooper’s goal. I was there, but couldn’t have told you the admission prices - the Celtic wiki has a photo of a ticket showing £2 :lol: happy days.

Correct,  that's the 1980 Hampden Riot Part 1 final (part 2 was 2016)

 

Unsure how many Rangers players were viciously assaulted after that game.

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Thanks for posting.

There's an old German guy, must be mid 70s, who accompanies me and another (Scottish mother / German father) guy to the occasional away (and also home game).

He lives in Gifhorn, which is in between Wolfsburg & Hannover. He was at this game and a couple of years later the company (Volkswagen supplier) he was working for had a tie-up with a Scottish company, who had sent over some employees. Somehow he ended up going to a couple of Scotland away games and has continued since then.

Says he could never be @rsed with the German national team and also the glory-hunting aspect.

 

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7 hours ago, Eednud said:

A moving photographic piece of Scottish football history. The sadly departed Alan Gilzean scores 2 goals in the 2nd half to draw 2-2 with West Germany in Hannover, May 1964.

 

1:35 and what did you do in the war, granddad....? 

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