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15 hours ago, Shotgun said:

You don't often hear the word "commodious" these days. I think that's a shame.

You don't often hear the word "commode" either these days, either. Probably not such a shame.

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49 minutes ago, SouthLanarkshireWhite said:

Thought so. I went to that game with school friends.

I worked with a Clyde fan who was still bitter that they were once denied a place in Europe due to some arcane UEFA rule that limited the number of teams from a city to 2 in any given year. Given that the whole world (or people from Lanarkshire. Same thing) know they come from Ruglen this is either:

1. A profound injustice

2. Untrue.

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1 minute ago, Academically Deficient said:

I worked with a Clyde fan who was still bitter that they were once denied a place in Europe due to some arcane UEFA rule that limited the number of teams from a city to 2 in any given year. Given that the whole world (or people from Lanarkshire. Same thing) know they come from Ruglen this is either:

1. A profound injustice

2. Untrue.

The former. We were deemed to be a Glasgow team and our place was given to Dundee IIRC.  It was downhill thereafter 😪

 

Clyde finished third, which is their highest ever league placing. Clyde did not qualify for Europe, however, because Rangers finished second and took the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup place.

Pos Team
[   ]
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Celtic 34 26 6 2 111 33 +78 58
2 Rangers 34 24 7 3 92 31 +61 55
3 Clyde 34 20 6 8 64 48 +16 46
4 Aberdeen 34 17 8 9 72 38 +34 42
5 Hibernian 34 19 4 11 72 49 +23 42
6 Dundee 34 16 9 9 74 51 +23 41
7 Kilmarnock 34 16 8 10 59 46 +13 40
8 Dunfermline Athletic 34 14 10 10 72 52 +20 38
9 Dundee United 34 14 9 11 68 62 +6 37
10 Motherwell 34 10 11 13 59 60 −1 31
11 Hearts 34 11 8 15 39 48 −9 30
12 Partick Thistle 34 9 12 13 49 68 −19 30
13 Airdrieonians 34 11 6 17 41 53 −12 28
14 Falkirk 34 11 4 19 33 70 −37 26
15 St Johnstone 34 10 5 19 53 73 −20 25
16 Stirling Albion 34 5 9 20 31 85 −54 19
17 St Mirren (R) 34 4 7 23 25 81 −56 15
18 Ayr United (R) 34 1 7 26 20 86 −66 9
Source: RSSSF
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1 hour ago, Academically Deficient said:

Profound injustice it is then. It would have been some sight, Benfica or internazionale pitching up at the Kings Park hotel. Away fans in the  the Main St. Shawfield under the midweek lights in a glamour European game.

 

Sorry if I'm making this worse.

Yes, you are. I think of the film Sliding Doors - where would we be now had we gotten a European run. Finances would have been very different, maybe attracted better players and crucially not been caught below the cut-off for the SPL in 1974, thereby maintaining our place in the top 10 at the time. 

Cue a comment about my auntie and balls.

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7 minutes ago, SouthLanarkshireWhite said:

Yes, you are. I think of the film Sliding Doors - where would we be now had we gotten a European run. Finances would have been very different, maybe attracted better players and crucially not been caught below the cut-off for the SPL in 1974, thereby maintaining our place in the top 10 at the time. 

Cue a comment about my auntie and balls.

You would have needed to have won the bloody thing if the money was going to last 7 years...

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3 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said:

Think I've maybe posted this before, the Dons,1965-66.

 

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I can name them all apart from whoever it is between Ally Shewan and Jimmy Wilson. Unless it's Jorgen Ravn, I thought he was away by then.

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On the theme of impersonating your way to success, here are 2 of the kits worn by The Pride of Lanarkshire in 2007-08. As they powered their way to unstoppable success in league, cup and European arenas, their opponents were clearly intimidated by their resemblance to Argentina and Brazil.

The following season they extended the theme by wearing the Netherlands kit. The cunning plan was foiled when they gave one of them to Marvin Andrews and told him to play centre half.

And thus the spell was broken

 

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1 minute ago, SouthLanarkshireWhite said:

I was hoping it wasn't a one-off, but the beginning of something bright and shiny

Unfortunately, instead of being the start of something big it was the end of something fairly big.

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