Auld Jag Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 On Wednesday i took up my usual place at the very front of the north stand with my son who is a wheelchair user.While Morton players were going through there warm up i got hit by the ball.I now have a black eye and had to get my glasses straightened by my optician.As i have been following Thistle for over 50years and this is the first time this has happened to me i was wondering if ii has happened to anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jags on tour Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 hasn't happened to me but I'm sure at Hamilton on the last day of last season a Mcguigan shot in the warm up went over the bar and smashed a guys bovril all over him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Exile Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 When I first started going to Firhill in the 60's there was a lot of space behind the North goal area and they used to park the little light blue three wheelers there, quite regularly they used to get hit by wayward shots. With the lack of space between the goal and the stands these days I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Sorry to hear about your injuries Auld Jag, hopefully the repairs weren't too expensive and I bet your son will love telling his mates how Da' got a ball smack in the face at the Thistle game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upthejags Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I got smacked right in the face by the ball as a kid about 20 years or so ago standing behind the other goal. I'm sure it was Andy Murdoch in goal at the time. It was a belter and I went in the huff with my dad for laughing at me for the rest of the game! It's not happened since thankfully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Earl of Hathaway Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Took a sore one in the, ahem, breadbasket from a misplaced shot by Paul Cairney up at Ross County last season.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted April 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 When I first started going to Firhill in the 60's there was a lot of space behind the North goal area and they used to park the little light blue three wheelers there, quite regularly they used to get hit by wayward shots. With the lack of space between the goal and the stands these days I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Sorry to hear about your injuries Auld Jag, hopefully the repairs weren't too expensive and I bet your son will love telling his mates how Da' got a ball smack in the face at the Thistle game. Optician fixed glasses FOC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisal Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) Almost on the same topic. I saw someone down the front get their head to a wayward shot. I almost managed this in the main stand many moons ago, but my mate got his hand to it just before me and I heedied fresh air. It must have looked like I connected tho' because I got a cheer from the shed. Edited April 12, 2013 by thisal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upthejags Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I saw chic charnley almost get hit by the ball not that long ago because he was too busy looking at his phone instead of watching the game. He noticed just in the nick of time. Can't remember where, it was maybe away to airdrie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky jag Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Anyone remember the guy who was knocked out clean by billy gibson up at deveronvale? Was a stoater, think he got tsken away in an ambulance, right sore one he took Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Lost count of how many matches (Thistle and other) that I have been to and I have never managed to touch a match ball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinny Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've wanted to head the ball back into play from the stand for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willjag Posted April 12, 2013 Members Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Lost count of how many matches (Thistle and other) that I have been to and I have never managed to touch a match ball. Was just about to say the same. Been going to games for over 40 years and only once has the ball came my way, at Love Street, made a clean catch and threw the ball back to Kenny Arthur for a goal kick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Strange that it doesn't happen more often, especially as our forwards seem to try their hardest to give us plenty of opportunities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Of The Month Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Took a sore one in the, ahem, breadbasket from a misplaced shot by Paul Cairney up at Ross County last season.... Â That just missed me. Looked rather painful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpool Jags Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Admittedly not at Firhill, but as a 9 year old at Lochburn Park one very cold and rainy Saturday, a Maryhil player hit a cracker that went narrowly wide of the post. I was standing behind the goal and went to heedie it back to onto the field. Well, the ball was soaking and it wasn't plastic coated like the modern balls. It nearly took ma heid clean aff! Â For weeks, it seemed, I had big horrible 'panel' marks on my forehead and side of my face. Can't remember anything hurting that bad or stunning me like that before or since. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinny Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I got a touch of the ball on Sunday. Unfortunately it flew at someone else who blocked it and it bounced over to my lap at the complete wrong height to punt/head it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Many many many years ago (1970?) I was at the Under 20 European Championship 3rd/4th place play-off Scotland v France at Firhill (Andy Anderson played for Scotland I seem to remember) - I was down at the wall (great because the terracing was high enough for a decent view). There was a 50-50 block tackle between 2 of the players and the ball flew out of play like a bullet - it caught the chap immediately to my left full on the side if the head - almost knocking him out cold - very distressing. Within seconds he had been helped by those of us around him (I was 10 so was probably of no use at all) - and the Ambulance guys arrived and he was taken away - I suspect (indeed hope) he was OK. Being 1970 the ball was perhaps a little more lethal; than modern versions but perhaps didn't travel quite as fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_miss_jag Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Took a sore one in the, ahem, breadbasket from a misplaced shot by Paul Cairney up at Ross County last season.... Â Was that Ross County in September? Â I ducked out the way of a ball behind the goals at Ross County last year and it hit some poor guy in the breadbasket as you call it ha! Â If it was you sorry!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peagreenboy Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 A female steward in the Jackie Husband stand was cracked in the back of the head, at one the games earlier in the season. Â Many moons ago, during one of our bleak spells, I remember a match at a deserted Firhill where there was utter silence thanks to the dross on the park. The ball flew out and hit a someone in a wheelchair over in front of the empty Main Stand. The poor guy was wailing and moaning in pain for about ten minutes, and that's all you could hear in the whole stadium ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Lost count of how many matches (Thistle and other) that I have been to and I have never managed to touch a match ball. Â After going to football games for more than 30 years I finally got a fingertip (as opposed to a full on hand) on the ball at the Accies friday night game this season. Â Chuffed wasn't the word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 John Lambie Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 As a youngster I was at a Kirkintilloch Rob Roy match when the ball was smacked & straight into my stomach. Winded & rolling around trying to breathe the ref stopped the game & called the physio over, who proceeds to hold my neck & ask me my name etc (thought I'd been hit on the head!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rave on Bobby Law Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Think I saw the Morton player aplogiosing on Wed but at the time see what he'd done. Hope the gegs are all fine now to watch the title run in! Back in the 80s I remember Kenny Watson blasting the ball out from the touchline and taking out a wee boy sitting on a wall at Boghead versus dumbarton. He instantly jumped the wall to pick him up. Think the fact he was a legend partly made up for the transgression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonboy Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Didnt happen to Me but my wife got a belter at Queen of the South sitting in the 3rd row. Paddy Keogh skewed his clearance. The ball was rocketing towards her at the precise time I was bending down to pick up my coffee. When I got upright I was greeted by a look of horror. She had taken the full blast on her nut and sent her glasses into row 10!! Some guy did return both halfs to her and asked if everthing was ok. to which I replied. "I forgot the sugar" Didnt go down to well and the wife had a ball mark on her face for a week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Sitting behind the goal where Thistle are taking shots during the pre-match warm-up is a dangerous place to be. I'm usually more nervous then than during the match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow & Redneck Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I came very close to getting whacked with the ball @ Morton a few seasons ago. I had just got to the stadium and was walking down the stairs in the Wee Dublin end when Bryn Halliwell failed to catch a Craig Hinchcliffe punt during the warm up, but I was able to make a textbook catch before it hit my face. Got my hands in the "W" position, soft hands, and clutched the ball to my chest. Bryn was impressed needless to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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