Scottish Fitba on a Sunday.

[Archiebaird]

Does anyone know the details of the first Sunday game in Scottish fitba?

Or even roughly when it was?

Doing an essay and cant be fecked doing the research. >:)

Might be something happytim would know.

[BertrandRussell]

Probably in the 60s or 70s, I'd imagine.

I read a couple of weeks ago about Sunday fitba in Northern Ireland - apparently it's still very rare over there. Was a bit surprised to read that.

[Archiebaird]

I know there was a cup game between Hearts and Aberdeen which was gonna be played on a Sunday in the 60s but wasn't due to pressure from the church.

Aye I'm thinking seventies.

[DannyBhoy]

What's the title of your essay, Erchie min?

[CoveKreep]

Maybe even the 80s - definite recall a live Sunday TV game between Hearts and Aberdeen at Tynecastle, 1-1 draw, a few weeks before Albert Kidd Day.

Think it may have been the first live league match on a Sunday.

[Archiebaird]

What's the title of your essay, Erchie min?

Account for shifts in popular leisure pursuits in Scotland between 1914 and 1970. :zzz:

Basically it's all gonna be about fitba. >:)

[Archiebaird]

Maybe even the 80s - definite recall a live Sunday TV game between Hearts and Aberdeen at Tynecastle, 1-1 draw, a few weeks before Albert Kidd Day.

Think it may have been the first live league match on a Sunday.

Cheers bud.

[BertrandRussell]

Millwall vs Fulham in 1974 was the first English game on a Sunday.

[DannyBhoy]

What's the title of your essay, Erchie min?

Account for shifts in popular leisure pursuits in Scotland between 1914 and 1970. :zzz:

Basically it's all gonna be about fitba. >:)[/quote]

Aye, Erchie min, keep it to something you know.

I always knew you were academically minded.

[Archiebaird]

Millwall vs Fulham in 1974 was the first English game on a Sunday.

Cheers. If I can establish that it was after 1970 then it will help my argument. If not I'll need to start again. :D

[CoveKreep]

If you can decifer the format as c&p'ing straight from my Leatherdale archives; here's the match info.



34AHEARTS4D1-10-0Weir 72pGunnMcKimmieMcQueenMcMasterMcLeishMiller WHewitt*Mitchell^Miller JBettWeirBlack/Robertson I
20/419,047141Colquhoun 87SmithCowieWhittakerJardine ABerryLeveinColquhounBlack KClarkMackay*RobertsonMcAdam
Ref: R ValentineScottish TVa€™s first ever live league game, and on Sunday too. With Aberdeen having dropped out of contention, the occasion has lost much of its bite. Aberdeen were awarded a mysterious penalty to threaten Heartsa€™ seven-month unbeaten run. McQueen then fluffed a late clearance.

[ScreamingBlueMesslah]

I remember Dundee beating Rangers 3-0 at Ibrox in season 73/74 in a Scottish cup tie on a Sunday ;D

[Archiebaird]

Thanks lads.

Dunno if anyone on here will be old enough to remember Sunday games from the 60s.

I say that's good enough for me to declare it a fact that there were no Sunday games in Scotland pre 1970. >:)

[Mook1]

I cannae find much on google but I would be pretty confident that the first Sunday Football up here would've come after the English game in '74.

Could be totally wrong like.

[Archiebaird]

I did find out that James I's ban on football was only officially ended in 1906.

As a result every trophy won before then is tainted.