A Photographic History Of Scottish Football

[kingjoey]

54 minutes ago, Boghead ranter said:

12 yo me had his wee heart broken in the summer of '78 - I had swallowed the hype hook, line and sinker, and was convinced that we were going to win it.

I already had the full strip, and used my entire reserves of pocket money savings to buy the Argentina logo T shirt, and the Scotland World Cup LP with gatefold sleeve, incorporating pages and pages of squad profiles and reasons why we were gonna stroll it.

Yabba dabba doo, we support the boys in blue, and it's easy, eeeeasssaayyy.......

 

Pretty sure that the album is from the World Cup 1974, as I still have it. 

[Boghead ranter]

15 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

Pretty sure that the album is from the World Cup 1974, as I still have it. 

f**k, so it is.

That's how badly scarred I was.

[jagfox]

[Buddie Holly]

52 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

Pretty sure that the album is from the World Cup 1974, as I still have it. 

 

36 minutes ago, Boghead ranter said:

f**k, so it is.

That's how badly scarred I was.

do you have a means to listen to it?if you do listen to the lulu shout track.it starts of with a big,shouty voice urging “everyone shout for scotland” then in reply to the shouty voice there’s a recording of fans on the terrace singing “what a load of rubbish”

[Buddie Holly]

13 minutes ago, jagfox OG said:

firhill when it was proper stadium

[jagfox]

'I stepped forward, misjudged my distance and my head came into contact with Mr McStay. I made slight contact with my forehead and he fell to the ground.' - Duncan Ferguson giving evidence after being charged with assault on Raith Rovers' John McStay, 1996.

Edited December 29, 2021 by jagfox OG

[jagfox]

Love the away strips and those tracksuit tops.

[buchan30]

'I stepped forward, misjudged my distance and my head came into contact with Mr McStay. I made slight contact with my forehead and he fell to the ground.' - Duncan Ferguson giving evidence after being charged with assault on Raith Rovers' John McStay, 1996.

Was Ferguson the only person that served time for something that happened on the pitch?

[Buddie Holly]

3 minutes ago, buchan30 said:

Was Ferguson the only person that served time for something that happened on the pitch?

footballers have been jailed for match fixing in the past

[HibeeJibee]

30 minutes ago, jagfox OG said:

'I stepped forward, misjudged my distance and my head came into contact with Mr McStay. I made slight contact with my forehead and he fell to the ground.' - Duncan Ferguson giving evidence after being charged with assault on Raith Rovers' John McStay, 1996.

 

20 minutes ago, buchan30 said:

Was Ferguson the only person that served time for something that happened on the pitch?

I'd suspect it has been unusual but probably not unprecedented. I've not followed the case to its resolution but an interesting example from exactly 85yrs ago today involved Celtic's 'keeper being charged for booting the ball into the crowd and striking a supporter:





For anybody who watched A Very British Scandal last few nights: Wheatley defending the player later became a judge, and heard the Argyll's divorce case. He also wrote the major reports on local government reorganisation/stadium safety/etc. during 1970s.

There have definitely been instances of players ending up in court for attacking referees, and also periodic cases of players pursuing other players for causing them injuries; although of course in modern times those would be civil actions for damages. As noted match fixing has also resulted in spells in jail.

Edited December 29, 2021 by HibeeJibee

[Sergeant Wilson]

23 minutes ago, buchan30 said:

Was Ferguson the only person that served time for something that happened on the pitch?

I can think of a few supporters, but that's a different story.

Ferguson was particularly daft in those days but I always thought McStay's reaction wasn't a good look.

[Myles Offside]

On 27/12/2021 at 01:34, bluearmyfaction said:

The Stranraer programme looks like it fell through a time tunnel from 1957 and the Airdrie programme looks like someone had been let loose in the Letraset store-room.  Fabulous selection of typefaces.

The Stranraer programme didn't change much all through the 70s. I've got one from a game in March 1978 and it's identical in layout. All of the advertisers in the centre spread are the same apart from Sun Taxis.

[kennie makevin]

22 hours ago, Lex said:

 

Ooft. I knew it was bad but I didn’t realise it was that bad. Cringe.

 

I was 17 in the summer of 1978 and I don't recall it as cringeworthy at all. Now all that 'Yes Sir I Can Boogie' bullshit from a team that scraped through the mother of all backdoors to the Euros only to have their arse handed to them.....that WAS !!!

 

 

[Hawkeye the Gnu]

   Can you imagine papers printing OF players addresses now?

Edited December 29, 2021 by Hawkeye the Gnu

[Ewan8472]

On 28/12/2021 at 17:38, HibeeJibee said:

Surely among the most misguided events in Scottish football history.

I don't have a copy but there was actually a souvenir brochure produced specifically for the send off. According to the timetable it began at 6:30pm with massed pipes & drums accompanied by majorettes. This was followed by comedian Andy Cameron at 6:50pm. Then for 20mins from 7pm to 7:20pm the squad players were introduced 1 by 1 - followed by a "salute" where they ran to each end of the arena that was itself to last 20mins. Finally at 7:40pm came a "farewell" where they toured the stadium in the open-topped bus... No fewer than 10 pipe bands, 1 brass band and 2 majorette companies were slated to participate. Supposedly there were 30,000 people, each paying 50p (about £10 today) for the privilege - an extra 30p for the brochure. Soon they were to be sorely disillusioned.









Of course lets not forget the special "Scotland World Cup Winners" stamps which had wisely been commissioned in advance. Surely a measure of preparedness, rather than an act of hubris.

The police wanted the Hampden farewell

[Ewan8472]

On 28/12/2021 at 18:46, Flybhoy said:

I do remember reading that Ally McLeod was dead against it and looked suitably embarrassed in the footage of him emerging from the tunnel, pretty sure I recall hearing this was the brainchild of Ernie Walker. 

There was still the opportunity for McLeod to make an arse of himself on his own steam by writing off Peru and Iran as no hopes and doing zero tactical analysis/homework on them.

brainchild of the police !

[Ewan8472]

5 hours ago, jagfox OG said:

'I stepped forward, misjudged my distance and my head came into contact with Mr McStay. I made slight contact with my forehead and he fell to the ground.' - Duncan Ferguson giving evidence after being charged with assault on Raith Rovers' John McStay, 1996.

D.F. conveniently forgetting he was on probation

[Arch Stanton]

6 hours ago, jagfox OG said:

Love the away strips and those tracksuit tops.

Ex-Saint Andy Dunlop, back row right.

Future Scottish Cup winner Kenny McDowall, front row 3 from left.

[Bogbrush1903]

6 hours ago, jagfox OG said:

Love the away strips and those tracksuit tops.

Brian Whittaker back row third right...this thread recently touched on the untimely passing of racing drivers and Whittaker lost his life on the M8 in the middle of the night after a single car accident in 1997...so we can perhaps assume he was nipping on when the accident occurred.

If that was the case, then thankfully he didn't take anyone else with him...

Edited December 29, 2021 by Bogbrush1903

[Boghead ranter]

19 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

Ex-Saint Andy Dunlop, back row right.

Future Scottish Cup winner Kenny McDowall, front row 3 from left.

Future Sons legend Alan Kay 2nd right, back row.