The funsters

[petermackie]

100 (one hundred) years after The Fun last won the Scottish Cup in 1910, 28,000 United fans travelled to Hampden to witness United lifting the Cup again.

The Fun Curse remains to this day

"After Dundee won the cup in 1910, a crowd of around 20,000 greeted the victorious team when they arrived back in the early hours of the morning.

The cup winning team boarded a horse drawn carriage at Dock Street and into Union Street and by this time, the Dundee fans had taken over the duty of the horses and the precision carried on towards Dens. However, the weight on the fans broke the carriage’s back axel and the Dundee players ran the rest of the way to Dens Park with a police escort.

Now, Dundee folklore has it that the Scottish Cup was displayed in the window of a premises which belonged to a Dundee Director, who just happened to be an undertaker.

The story goes that a Dundee ‘speywife’ was so outraged and incensed by what she perceived as a bit of bad taste, she proceded to put a curse on the team stating that from that day onwards Dundee FC would never lay their hands on the silverware again"

And so it remains 🧡

Fantastic research....but still Doon🇫🇷💙

[TerryTheTerror]

Fantastic research....but still Doon🇫🇷💙

Could 2024 be the year? 🤔

[ARAbCHNID]

Totally agree the entire thread is a total minter if I'm being honest .

Suppose it was the other way round & they had a bigger support than us, do you think we'd ever hear the end of it?
Just be gald it's the way it is.
Not a minter.

[Yeats 62]

There is a lot more to this thread than comparing supports. Plenty banter etc. Some of it well worth a wee skek back...

[Stoke_Arab]

When you look at them, ye cannae exactly call the Funsters ‘bonnie’.

December 21 😂😂😂😂

[cybershed]

Think that guy in the first pic is one of their 'young team'?

Where is the Derry Drum. No seen that for a while.

My personal favourite is the double bed on the roof of the pie shop.

Or is it the Derry Fox RIP.

[Arabdownsouth]

Think that guy in the first pic is one of their 'young team'?

Where is the Derry Drum. No seen that for a while.

My personal favourite is the double bed on the roof of the pie shop.

Or is it the Derry Fox RIP.

It wasn't simply a double bed on top of the pie shop though, that was the first attempt at building a hotel within the stadium (f*cking stadium my arse)

[Piscean]

Despite slagging the Dees off their highest ever average is over 24,000, more than Aberdeens highest and double Uniteds. They're actually 5th highest of all time, with Aberdeen 6th. Unbelievable.

[TerryTheTerror]

Despite slagging the Dees off their highest ever average is over 24,000, more than Aberdeens highest and double Uniteds. They're actually 5th highest of all time, with Aberdeen 6th. Unbelievable.

When was that though?

[shedka]

I'll guess just after the post wwii era when crowds got stupidly big across the country, pretty sure Utd had 5 figure average in the second tier despite being a second tier club for all but 4 years of their existence at that stage

A one off era that has clouded some people into thinking some clubs were bigger than they were had been pre ww2 or since things tailed off in the 60s onwards

[LSArab]

Despite slagging the Dees off their highest ever average is over 24,000, more than Aberdeens highest and double Uniteds. They're actually 5th highest of all time, with Aberdeen 6th. Unbelievable.

Ha ha 🤣

Crowds in 1910 don’t count

1910 and never again

Does you reasoning make Third Lanark one of the biggest clubs in the country ?!??

[Piscean]

When was that though?

According to this book both Dundee and Aberdeens highest ever averages were in the 1950s, prob Hearts and Hibs the same, will have to check. It says Uniteds highest almost 40 years ago, just over 12,000. It goes Rangers, Celtic, Hibs, Hearts, Dundee, Aberdeen in that order but now with Celtic getting over 50,000 every week they would move to number 1 as the book is about 15 years old. United actually come in at 15th with that 12,000 average average. Dundee only averaged just over 16,000 when winning the league, United averaging just over 10000 when winning theirs.

[TerryTheTerror]

The 1950's? You need to explain the relevance of that 70 odd years later.

[Piscean]

The 1950's? You need to explain the relevance of that 70 odd years later.

It's only relevant from then as it's those teams highest ever crowds, Uniteds highest ever crowd was almost 60 years ago. Crowd averages now outside the big 4 are way lower but the grounds are much smaller.

[Kdyteejay2]

The grounds have shrunk.