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McCue made 5 appearances... Sub v Raith Rovers 2/3/96 then 4 games at No 9... Celtic 27/4/96 Hibs 4/5/96 (and to my complete astonishment) both games v Dundee United in the Play-Offs 12/5/96 and 16/5/96. Cannot picture him at all.

Between 1904/5 and 1944/5 Thistle lost 9 and won 3 Glasgow Charity Cup ties on corners - many of them after extra time. In 1922/23 the corner count against Third Lanark was 10-10 (a 1-1 draw). Thistle won on the toss of a coin. One Glasgow Cup tie was won on corners v Clyde in 1915/16.

DD said.. "Not like Doncaster to flog a dead horse though". If all the horses were flogged to death at Doncaster, all racing would be cancelled. (Horse blanket already on.)

Campbell, Glavin and McQuade. Looks like Arthur Duncan. They played v Hibs 5 times at Firhill but the round neck top suggests 1971/72. That leaves 2 games. Since the Scottish Cup tie had double the crowd at the league game, going for... 5 February 1972. 0-2 defeat in the Scottish Cup. Rough, Hansen, Forsyth, Glavin, Campbell, Strachan, Gibson, McQuade, Bone, A Rae, Lawrie. (T Rae.) Herriot, Brownlie, Schaedler, Stanton, Black, Blackley, Hamilton, O'Rourke, Gordon, Cropley, Duncan.

Jimmy McGowan receiving the Glasgow Cup on 26 March 1951 (3-2 v Celtic (after 1-1 draw) or 29 September 1952 (3-1 v Rangers) or 27 September 1954 (2-0 v Rangers). Not much else to go on unless anyone recognises the gents in the suits.

Deffo Willie Sharp. Firhill? Giant scoreboard for the dogs? Airdrie? According to the Historical Kits website, Airdrie only wore black shorts for one season (1945-46) but Thistle didn't play them that season. Looks a miserable day. Not much grass. Could be 17 March 1951 (2-0) or 8 December 1952 (5-2). Assuming the other player is a forward, take your pick from O'Donnell, Glover, Cunningham, McCallum, Anderson etc etc etc Anyone else want to run with this?????

Perhaps TJR has more info but the E times merely says he had been missing since 8 October due to illness and had had a month's complete rest. (He missed 8 games altogether.) Just noticed he didn't play in the next 2 after the friendly either.

I seem to recall it didn't go for a corner and that he saved his own goal-kick. The debate at the time was whether he needed to. I think the answer was that had the ball gone into the goal the ref would have ordered the kick to be retaken. Had it been a kick from hand however it would have been an og.

Will the US Customs let in all the peys and Bovril?

Oh no it doesn't!

Agreed about the goalkeeper. I realise every team does it but the public in general are being cheated. The ICT guy was wasting time after 10 mins! Once or twice he placed the ball, walked back to the goal line and just stood waiting for the ref to tell him to hurry up. Keepers know that refs are ultra lenient and that even after they are booked they are seldom, if ever, likely to be booked again. When did it last happen? I'd love to see FIFA change the rule back to where it was before. If the ball goes out to the keeper's left, the goal kick is taken from the left. In cases of doubt the ref signals which side to take it from. Also, would like to see a straight red card (or a 10-minute sin-bin) for habitual time-wasting keepers.

More likely to be a Kilmarnock fan whose letter of complaint seems to have been stuck in the post since the mid-50s.

In that case...my mistake. It is 26 Feb 66 not 65. I wish seasons would run from Jan to Dec! Niven, Campbell, Muir, Cunningham, McKinnon, Gibb, Hogan, McLindon, Roxburgh, Hainey, Duncan.

That was my thinking too. I couldn't find a match where the players I could identify played together.

Hibs at Easter Road? Niven and Muir? If he was right back... 29 Feb 1964 1-2 24 Sep 1966 0-7 If he was left back... 19 Dec 1964 1-2 26 Feb 1965 0-2 30 Sep 1967 1-5

Looks like Hearts at Tynecastle with Ritchie, McLindon and Cunningham in the distance (?). 0-2. 9 November 1968. Ritchie, Campbell, McLindon, McParland, Gray, O'Neill, McCall, Flanagan, Cunningham, Bone, Hansen.

Ah, right. Forgot about the minute's silence. Why not come on to the park to the anthem?

Alternatively, would the club agree to play the French national anthem over the public address?

2 subs permitted from season 1973-74 (initially for injury rather than tactical replacement).

It's on page 129 of the Official History if you have a copy.

If it's Dick then he only played once v Hibs - a 5-1 defeat on 6 Sep 1969 at Easter Road. McBride scored 3, Cormack 2 (1 pen). Duncan scored for Thistle. Dick, Reid, Gray, Smith, McKinnon, Hansen (J), McLindon, Flanagan, Glavin, O'Neill, Duncan. (Bone.)

I've no way of knowing if this is true or not but many years ago and old Thistle fan from the north of Scotland told me that a match in Elgin (?) in the 20s (or earlier) was played in thick fog. He told me that the home and away dressing rooms were at either end of the pitch. Both teams came out to warm up and when the ref blew his whistle for the captains to come to the centre circle it was only then that he saw the teams were wearing identical strips.

Just by coincidence I found the report of the Thistle v Dundee United match in October 1977. There was a lot of giving the ball away in the first half because the red and yellow clashed with United's tangerine. A change of strip to sky blue was ordered by Auld at half-time and the rest is history...a 2-1 win with Somner and Melrose getting the goals.

Once saw Cliff Hanley and Robin Hall standing on the terracing roughly where the North Stand and the JHS meet, finishing off a bottle of champagne between them but generally a bit suspicious about all these so-called celebrity fan stories. Has anyone actually seen any of them at matches? Or is it just "fashionable" to say you support Thistle if you're in the media/film/TV etc ? Anyone remember Buster Bloodvessel? We're the real fans.

IF it's Morton away, IF the Morton player is Roddy Hutchison, IF It's Whittaker half-hidden with Rough, Campbell and Anderson then it looks like 1 of 3... 29 Dec 1979 (3-1) 2 April 1980 (0-1) 27 Dec 1980 (0-2) The match in April was a Wednesday night so I suppose the lights might have been on but probably one of the other two.