From Torpor to Tremendous in 8 days !!!!

[Jim_Jam]

Sorry mate but i will only stick to the FACTS on this board and when Sailor Hunter brought the cup hame on the train the Dees were transported up to Dens by horse and cart and it broke doon on the Victoria Rd,legend has it that Aideen Kelly a well known witch was awoken from her drunken slumber and screeched oot the windie of NO80,"You noisy blue nose barsteward's its FN 1910 and never again and up the Hibs!!!,WASC with a FACT for good measure.

My apologies Gunboat.

A crowd of 20,000 awaited the Dundee team when they arrived back in the early hours of the morning and amid delirium and chaos, the Dundee party boarded horse drawn carriages in Dock Street before the horses were unyoked on Union Street as the fans took over for the journey to Dens.

Scores of fans however jumped onto the carriage before the back axle collapsed on Victoria Road and the Dundee team made the rest of the journey up the brae to Dens on foot, with a police escort, waving the Cup as they went.

In fact at the time, winning the Scottish Cup and not the League Championship was seen as the more prestigious tournament and indeed when club chairman ex-Baillie Robertson accepted the trophy he said, “It has been the height of the club’s ambition to win the Scottish Cup”.

It was a night to remember for all concerned as the celebrations went into the early hours and with 214,000 fans watching Dundee’s ten games, it was a real money-spinner for the club.

The players themselves received a healthy bonus of £40 per man partly funded by local subscriptions. Given the amount of overtime in achieving cup glory it was no more than they were entitled to but more importantly they had written themselves into the eternal folklore of that great club.


Did they not put the cup in the undertaker's window to evoke the curse.

[CarlisleArab]

Bailie Robertson was my great, great grandfather (from the dark side of the family). The story I’ve been told is that he had a shop as part of his house in the Hiltown and he was a cabinet maker to trade and as such displayed coffins along with other items that he made, in his front window. He had put the Scottish Cup in the front window on display & a passing gypsy woman, seeing a coffin next to the cup, put a curse on it saying it would never return to the city (well not until at least 1994)

[JamesMcClean]

Bailie Robertson was my great, great grandfather (from the dark side of the family). The story I’ve been told is that he had a shop as part of his house in the Hiltown and he was a cabinet maker to trade and as such displayed coffins along with other items that he made, in his front window. He had put the Scottish Cup in the front window on display & a passing gypsy woman, seeing a coffin next to the cup, put a curse on it saying it would never return to the city (well not until at least 1994)

It's weird how these curse things start - there's the one above obviously, plus other ones like the Boston Red Sox' Curse of the Babe and the Chigaco Cubs last year putting to bed the Curse of the Goat. And then there's the Funsters - they've been cursed and won phuck all for FORTY FOUR years. Of course, it could also just be that they're total scheite.

[deebuster]

Dees were cursed to 'play like ****e' until 'A crematorium arises in the West'

[Jim_Jam]

Bailie Robertson was my great, great grandfather (from the dark side of the family). The story I’ve been told is that he had a shop as part of his house in the Hiltown and he was a cabinet maker to trade and as such displayed coffins along with other items that he made, in his front window. He had put the Scottish Cup in the front window on display & a passing gypsy woman, seeing a coffin next to the cup, put a curse on it saying it would never return to the city (well not until at least 1994)

We are honoured to have such first hand verification. Well done the Robertson's for getting the Dees f17cked by a curse.
Where about in the Hiltown was his shop do you know. It really deserves a plaque.