Arch Stanton Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Oof, what a day that was. Lunchtime ko on a Sunday, no trains so replacement bus, numerous cans of Stella for breakfast, Diane's for more pre-match libations, a shite 0-0 draw, taking over some pub in Stockbridge post-match. Saints fined £25k for having one too few u21 outfield players, won the replay 3-0. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonLichtie Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 On 01/02/2023 at 08:04, O'Kelly Isley III said: A Pinterest find of what appears to be a pretty routine day at Gayfield. Louis Theroux is out of his box in the foreground whilst a hardy but lardy visitor from Forfar is sporting what appears to be a pair of Loons branded budgie smugglers. Will never fail to amuse me how every so often this picture pops up..... Glad I got on the pitch early on that day Yours, Louis Theroux 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 11 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said: City Park. It's always sad when a ground is overlooked by houses with great free view, but no one bothers to watch. They always struck me as egg chasers' houses 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 10 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said: A couple more of City Park, minus the Main Stand, that I took at Spartans v St Mirren on 5th Feb 2006. The free view from the street outside and the grassy slope of the away section, taken while I was still incognito, having got in with a home end ticket. In the foreground is that the fence your chairman Stewart Gilmour claimed to have scaled in trying to argue the venue was unfit or was that the wall to the right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 minute ago, HibeeJibee said: In the foreground is that the fence your chairman Stewart Gilmour claimed to have scaled in trying to argue the venue was unfit or was that the wall to the right? Either way, he made a tit of himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Sanchez Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 10 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: In the foreground is that the fence your chairman Stewart Gilmour claimed to have scaled in trying to argue the venue was unfit or was that the wall to the right? There was a meeting with the cops and other interested parties and they were only allowed to stage the game there on condition that the away ticket allocation was increased by 150% and the height of the perimeter fence was raised so that you couldn't just easily step over it like Gilmour did. The wooden bit on the right is the start of the extra fencing that was put up. The metal fence is the boundary of the adjacent disused railway/footpath, and whole host of people watched the game from there too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Sanchez Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 53 minutes ago, tamthebam said: They always struck me as egg chasers' houses Funnily enough, Scotland were playing France the same day we played at City Park and Spartans were pitching their hospitality as a double header with watching the egg chasing on TV, which obviously received the appropriate derision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearmyfaction Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 (edited) More fun protests: 1. we lost to a team that didn't exist; 2. there was a tree in the way. (Brechin not the only pitch to have a hedge.) Edited February 4 by bluearmyfaction 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I love that these hearings were filled with laughter. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 8 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: That's magnificent. Is it real? Where is this gem to be found? I'm guessing it's somewhere in England if genuine. I want Morris dancers gamboling around that Maypole while a match is in progress. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 6 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: That's magnificent. Is it real? Where is this gem to be found? I'm guessing it's somewhere in England if genuine. I want Morris dancers gamboling around that Maypole while a match is in progress. On the contrary: it's in Scotland. I don't think it's held a formal game for decades, but I've a clipping about a match played on it about 40yrs ago which I'll post once somebody gets the village. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 8 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: On the contrary: it's in Scotland. I don't think it's held a formal game for decades, but I've a clipping about a match played on it about 40yrs ago which I'll post once somebody gets the village. Swinton 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 27 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: On the contrary: it's in Scotland. I don't think it's held a formal game for decades, but I've a clipping about a match played on it about 40yrs ago which I'll post once somebody gets the village. Was the monument thing in place for this 40 year old match? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 50 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Swinton 30 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Was the monument thing in place for this 40 year old match? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 At the tail end of Meadowbank's existence Thistle played a friendly (I think it was at Whitestone Park, Peebles) where part of the pitch had been roped off as grass seed had been put down (it may have been to do with the cricket which gets played at Whitestone). Almost as farcical as Blobby Hunter's attempts at running a football club. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearmyfaction Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 3 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said: I love that these hearings were filled with laughter. The Dundee Courier loves its stage directions (they're in court reports as well). I wonder how much of them came from the Dundee rep M'Culloch, who seems to have been something of a stand-up in these meetings. E.g. when a team from Wick applied to join the SFA in 1889 he suggested that, given the Scottish Cup was still regionalised in the first rounds, they be given a region to themselves. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearmyfaction Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 I've found out why Jamestown protested Vale of Leven Hibs in 1888 - the previous year's tie had been somewhat contentious...Jamestown won 3-2, the game was replayed (twice) after a Hibs protest about rough play, and, after Jamestown finally got through, there was an outbreak of rowdyism that night... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 14 hours ago, bluearmyfaction said: I've found out why Jamestown protested Vale of Leven Hibs in 1888 - the previous year's tie had been somewhat contentious...Jamestown won 3-2, the game was replayed (twice) after a Hibs protest about rough play, and, after Jamestown finally got through, there was an outbreak of rowdyism that night... The Vale of Leven, a place you can walk for 3-1/2 miles and never leave the scene of the crime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specky Ginger Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 An ariel view of Hampden during the 1938 Scottish Cup Final apparently. Found it on Pinterest. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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