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A Photographic History Of Scottish Football


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22 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said:

England v Scotland, 1903, at Bramall Lane, Sheffield. Note picture 4.

Picture 4 doesn't look quite right in terms of the relative positions of players, linesman, ball, pitch markings and the crowd.

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4 hours ago, Northboy said:

Picture 4 doesn't look quite right in terms of the relative positions of players, linesman, ball, pitch markings and the crowd

That's because Bramall Lane was also a Cricket Grounds so there would be a big gap on one side between pitch and stands. 

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Without trawling through the past 440 pages of this thread, I can't tell if anyone has previously posted a link to the gottfriedfuchs website. Just the thing to waste hours on.

If you've not been there before, it has a vast collection of international football trivia and photos dating from before 1937. There's a fair bit of the Scottish game represented. Even the Buddies find a place  -http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/search/label/Saint%20Mirren

And "...the best football on earth, the highest paid football experts in the world" (cough, splutter) - http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/search/label/Celtic

Internationally I've now discovered that the referee really was a b*****d - http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/search/label/Segar%20b*****d

And vaguely surreally, in 1890 the Irish Cup was won by a Scottish team (another lost the final two years later) - http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/2013/09/irish-football-association-challenge-cup.html

and there are even Hibs...

Hibs.jpg

 

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It's 1968 and you can show you are a staunch house with a wonderful piece of homewear.

Archie MacPherson has been wearing a Gers rug on his heid since 1968.

Edited by tamthebam
The Cellic minded spellchecker changed Gers to Gets!
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I was watching a recording of "The Big Match Revisited" which ITV4 is showing, today. The episode was the 3rd of October 1976 and Brian Moore read a letter from a lady in Fulham. Her Dad, Watty White had played for Scotland v England in 1908. She sent in his jersey which Moore showed us and I took a  photo of the screen. His Cap for the match was also shown. 

He also said that he earned £28 0s 6d from his testimonial. 

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Wattie White was from Crookedholm in Ayrshire. He went from Hurlford to Bolton Wanderers and then to Fulham via Everton, a losing FA Cup final appearance and 2 Scotland caps, both v England.

He got wounded in WWI, played after the war until he was 40 and died aged 68 in 1950 in Fulham.

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1 hour ago, Lurkst said:

Spelt it both ways to make sure one was right.

 

I think I read in a Billy Kay book that the composer Grieg's father was from Britain ( maybe Scottish but I'd need to find the book) and that the family name was changed from Greig, so maybe the printers were just trying to represent diversity. 

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