lady-isobel-barnett Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 CCjag puts it very well when he refers to James Alexander Gordon as "part of the fabric of the game". Now sadly passed away. Got me thinking that even our relatively young posters will also mind a different era. And may look back with nostalgia on times forever gone. Here's my three from the past. 1/The Saturday Green Citizen (rushed out with detailed first half but extremely sketchy second half reports) 2/Results coming thru on teleprinters 3/White hankies being vigorously waved when someone in the crowd "fainted". Regardless of age what's your three? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediocre Pundit Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. Watching the results come through live on Teletext 2. Fantasy Football League 3. When Soccer AM was good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robphil Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. being lifted over the turnstiles 2. thistle v thistle reserves pre-season curtainraiser 3. red and yellow hooped shirts, white shorts, red socks with black/yellow/black bands at the top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindau Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) Half time scores going up on a board in the ground under score A, B, C, D etc and if you didn't have a programme, having to ask some one for a look at their programme. Macaroon bars n spearmint chuggie. Could never quite understand that one as no one I knew liked macaroon bars! Pink edition of the Evening Times/ green edition of The Citizen, sometimes the only way to find out the days scores on a Saturday night before either Sportscene or Scotsport came on! Lift over the turnstile. Edited August 19, 2014 by Lindau 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sunnylaw Jag Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 The latest set of A&BC Footballer Cards The smell of the factory on Panmure Street The sound of Whistling Jack Smith with I was Kaiser Bill's Batman coming down the road to Firhill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Clouds of steam from guys peeing along the wall at the back of the shed, and further clouds in the back yard of the tenements (now gone) between Garscube Rd and Maryhill Rd, as folk took a shortcut after the match. Standing watching the results come in on televisions in a shop window in Maryhill Road. The wee blue disability cars behind the goals at the north end of the ground. I remember just about everything else that folk have described! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Pink edition of the Evening Times Nowadays I sense asking for the "Pink Times" could be misconstrued. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbank boy Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 All of the above as well as ; The old floodlights on top of the stand and the shed. Players running out form the central tunnel. My Dad and his friend going into the Caber Feidh for a pint after the game whilst I ran home to tell Mum the result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinny Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Watching the results come through on teletext, I still remember that Robert Dunn goal after seven seconds or so. Stopping outside Glenn's, Hutchison's, Robertson's or Stepek (whichever it was) on Byres road to see the classifieds on STV on the way home from Firhill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kni Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. Running out to "I was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith. 2. Being lifted over the turnstiles - the original "kids go free". 3. Collecting football cards and, later, World Cup coins from Esso stations. 4. Hating Jimmy Hill because of his constant attacks on Alan Rough when he played for Scotland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sunnylaw Jag Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. Running out to "I was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith. 2. Being lifted over the turnstiles - the original "kids go free". 3. Collecting football cards and, later, World Cup coins from Esso stations. 4. Hating Jimmy Hill because of his constant attacks on Alan Rough when he played for Scotland. Okay but what's your three? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunnikierjag Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. Walking up Maryhill Road from Cromwell Street with my dad and grandad. 2. Going to League Cup finals in the 1950s by tram to Hampden, seemed like a very long journey. 3. Going to St George's Cross to buy the pink Times and green Citizen, reading about junior and reserve games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kni Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Okay but what's your three? The first three - the fourth was added because I can't help thinking of that creep when looking back at the 70s and 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angry gaz Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. Away fans in the Shed before they put the fence up.How mental was that? 2. The Pie stall up the back of the Shed . 3. Going into the comic bookstore on Maryhill Rd to buy Marvel comics before the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter of '63 Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Some good nostlgia here - I'll go with:- 1) David Francey's radio commentraries - I think only the last 30 minutes of games could be broadcast and there were no score updates from other games. 2) The TV reports on games on BBC Scotland just after 5pm on Saturdays - the reporters had to dash from the grounds to broadcast from attic studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh,Aberdeen & Dundee - the guy who did the Edinburgh games (Alastair Dewar?) was always grumpy, invariably reporting on dismal performances by Hearts. 3) David Coleman's astonishing knowledge of obscure facts as he read out the scores as they came through on the Teleprinter - "That's Rotherham's first away win in their last seven" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb1876 Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) Most of the above. 1. The decision whether to walk round to the shed by going up the stairs or round the back way (from the city end turnstyles). 2. The Tavern! 3. Having to go to the pie stall miles away (seemed like it at the time) when the shed had run out of something! Edited August 19, 2014 by sb1876 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindau Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 3) David Coleman's astonishing knowledge of obscure facts as he read out the scores as they came through on the Teleprinter - "That's Rotherham's first away win in their last seven" Equivilent of Jeff Stelling today , Winter. Some other ones for me. Getting papped into Jaconelli's with with two of my dad's pals kids, while they went into the pub before the game. And deciding whether to get my pie and Bovril at the wee food stall at the city end enclosure or go to the one at the back of the shed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulo Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 The wee blue disability cars behind the goals at the north end of the ground. For some reason, this was the first one that popped into my head as I was reading the OP. Classic. Great thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAGSMAN1968 Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 ah the memories! 1. walking up the steps at the city end, with the pitch gradually coming into view.- anticipation rising. 2. leaning against the same concrete barrier in the shed every game. 3. amending the front page advert space that said "to let"(the old yellow programme) to something very childish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kni Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. Away fans in the Shed before they put the fence up.How mental was that? 2. The Pie stall up the back of the Shed . 3. Going into the comic bookstore on Maryhill Rd to buy Marvel comics before the game. Not mental all for most teams. Lots of fans used to swap ends at half-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulo Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Standing in the enclosure at the front of the main stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. My dad dumping me and brother in the queens cross cafe pre match for a roll ans sausage and coke while he got half cut in the woodside. 2. Like many the green Citizen and pink Times. The Citizen was my fave. 3. My dad and 3 uncles, all Jags fans lifting us over the turnstyle. Oh dear, I appear to have something in my eye xausing a tear. Aagh. Old age? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpool Jags Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. being lifted over the turnstiles 2. thistle v thistle reserves pre-season curtainraiser 3. red and yellow hooped shirts, white shorts, red socks with black/yellow/black bands at the top An error occurred You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dug1e Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 1. being in the enclosure when the old firm visited. seems things never really change. 2. the anglo=scottish cup 3 Hampden park 23rd Oct 1971 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpool Jags Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 In the very early '60s, seeing Kirkland St (where I lived) packed with people making their way up to the games. Being too big for a lift over and too young to earn money to pay in, climbing up a big settee, near the nolly, behind the shed to skip in along with a few other young scallies. (For some reason this settee stayed their for several weeks - around 1968/69). Waiting at the top of Kirkland St for the old North West bus to arrive for away games; hoping for spare seats and getting picked if there was more non-members than the bus could hold. That bus was full of total characters, including the old bloke who, on the way back after a defeat, would stand up and shout, "Are we downhearted?" To a deafening reply of "YES!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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