Jacksgranda Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Just now, House Bartender said: And it's plain old "Celtic" as opposed to "Glasgow Rangers" (remember them?). Didn't they both once prefix with the town name? I think Celtic always preferred "Celtic". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said: Climbed into the loft and rescued this, which was the first Scottish Football League Review published for season 1980-81. Forword by James Farry, and priced at £2, it helped you find nearest branches of the Clydesdale Bank, nearly all closed down now, like the SFL itself. There's a double page spread for each team, in alphabetical order per league. Pages are too big for my scanner, but I could photograph a few as samples. Jack Copland and Tony Higgins in the Saints v Thistle picture. We finished third in the league and won the Anglo-Scottish Cup the previous season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 I used to always get the Football League Review from the local library. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specky Ginger Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 4 hours ago, Dunfermline Don said: Just noticed that the photos on the cover show some of the biggest teams in Scotland at the time and a certain city has no representation! One of the capital clubs relegated that season and another playing in the second tier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 11 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said: There were two Kelty Rangers, one went out the game in 1929, the other in 1970 after 40 years. I think they were a junior side, as they recorded a crowd of 3000 in a match v Valleyfield Colliery in the Scottish Junior Cup, but later turned juvenile and became nomadic. There was also a Kelty North End Rangers, which probably merged into the second Kelty Rangers after the Second World War. Given the date Kelty Rangers (the junior side) went burst in 1970, with Kelty Hearts formed in 1975, juvenile side which evolved into Hearts may have been loosely related to the bankrupt team. Take it they like Rangers and Hearts in Kelty lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Glenconner said: Take it they like Rangers and Hearts in Kelty lol There was also a Kelty Thistle, Kelty West End, Kelty Our Boys, Kelty Athletic and a plain Kelty. I've got a directory listing Scottish clubs through the ages: it is an Excel file in an old format. I'll try to attach it here. EDIT: I can't recall the source of this file, if anyone could help, I'd be grateful clublist1.xls Edited June 8, 2022 by Dundee Hibernian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luddite Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, tamthebam said: The other David Moyes (Berwick, Dunfermline, Meadowbank) from a League Review book A hard B. of a midfielder he was slightly before my time but a cult hero with Meadowbank fans. In my mind that’s what football players should look like. Thoroughly unimpressed with having to have his photo taken and the photographer dare not ask him for an alternate pose, probably hoping to get this shoot wrapped up as quickly as possible. If that were today the player would be all jacked and tanned and tatted-up with that Fanny fascist razor-cut hairdo they all have and a little trimmed beard and plucked eyebrows, mean-mugging with his pretend-hard man act and making the photographer take a hundred shots with his head angled just-so to catch his “best side” and stopping to review every picture before his agent allows him to sign off on one. c***s. Edited June 8, 2022 by Luddite 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo den Bieman Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Thinking about this thread earlier, I was trying to remember games that really did stick with me even if they were between fairly pish sides. This one between Clydebank and Brechin City at Kilbowie in autumn 1990 was one such- Brechin won 4-3 in an astonishing topsy-turvy game that I was at as a neutral. The goal here shows Tommy Coyle putting Bankies 3-2 up from the penalty spot but a bizarre equaliser via the post and the back of Jim Gallacher's perennially bald napper, and then a late Paui Ritchie winner saw one of City's very few bright spots that season. The old First Division was a terrific league- a really good mix of the "best of the rest" full time sides and part time teams. Brechin ended up bottom of the table and releagted along with John Clark's Clyde, their last season as squatters at Firhill. Bankies had a mediocre campaign treading water in mid-table. Falkirk won the league and Airdire went up with them. Owen Coyle had 17 goals by late September but then got injured, so Gordon Dalziel ended up top scorer. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said: There was also a Kelty Thistle, Kelty West End, Kelty Our Boys, Kelty Athletic and a plain Kelty. I've got a directory listing Scottish clubs through the ages: it is an Excel file in an old format. I'll try to attach it here. EDIT: I can't recall the source of this file, if anyone could help, I'd be grateful clublist1.xls 3.64 MB · 3 downloads Didn’t open link but it’s possibly this one http://sfha.org.uk/club-directory.htm Edited June 9, 2022 by Eednud 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbrush1903 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 On 07/06/2022 at 18:20, Ranaldo Bairn said: For about 4 or 5 years after the last one in 2006 or thereabouts, I used to write annually to the SFL/SPL asking for its return. Sadly, the polite reponses were always negative. A mighty loss to the game, these books. I only had the 1983/84 one (that I can recall) with the orange (or was it tangerine because United had won the League?). I loved it and spent many an evening in its company. Do you have the Aberdeen main picture from 1983/84? I think it was from the old Rugby Park 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 42 minutes ago, Bogbrush1903 said: I only had the 1983/84 one (that I can recall) with the orange (or was it tangerine because United had won the League?). I loved it and spent many an evening in its company. Do you have the Aberdeen main picture from 1983/84? I think it was from the old Rugby Park Aberdeen's main photo was Eric Black winning the Cup... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 ...however Kilmarnock's was a game v Aberdeen! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 7 hours ago, Eednud said: Didn’t open link but it’s possibly this one http://sfha.org.uk/club-directory.htm That's the very thing! Thank you @Eednud 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Pele and the Sub Club. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 First of the photographs from the 80-81 Scottish Football League Review (mind, too big for my scanner). It's the Bankies: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Here's the Dark Blues: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Meadowbank Thistle: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Perth Saints, still at Muirton of course, featuring young midfielder McCoist. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 The Spiders: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 7 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said: First of the photographs from the 80-81 Scottish Football League Review (mind, too big for my scanner). It's the Bankies: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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