Random Fitba Facts Thread

[InversneckieDob]

So that's five......any advance on that?

[RED_JOHN]

It would certainly make things even easier for Russ Richardson if our future targets stayed in close proximity.

[Aldo1983]

So that's five......any advance on that?

There's only about 10 houses on the old miners row. There's a football pitch next to it though.

[its_a_goal]

I can't remember but one his friends from Annathill told me. One played for rangers, one for hibs and one at hearts.

That's Lanarkshire mining villages for you.

were they baldies too?

[Aldo1983]

were they baldies too?

Jarvie had a full head of hair, depending on the wind

[57vintage]

Alex Willoughby was cruelly felled in the opposition (I forget who) box in a match at Pittodrie in the 1971-72 season, at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as the former occupants of the rank, foul-smelling, crumbling midden in Govan were awarded a penalty for a dubious handball at said cesspit (a boy beside us in the ground had a radio aboot rhe size of a sideboard, and his ire at the BITB at Pittodrie heightened immediately as he aggregated the twin incidents). Despite the double dunter of Association-sanctioned swickery, a’body laughed like ****.

[afc1903mad]

Couple you may or may not know

Buckie Thistle play in green and white hoops after Celtic donated a strip to them

Falkirk broke the world transfer fee signing Sydney Puddefoot from West Ham for £5,000 in 1922

[RED_JOHN]

Falkirk broke the world transfer fee signing Sydney Puddefoot from West Ham for £5,000 in 1922

An old friend of mines owned Falkirk for a while not that long ago. Never heard that fact from him or his sons. I will store that for future chat between them.

[BogBrush1903]

India refused to play in the 1950 World Cup because FIFA wouldn't allow them to play bare-footed....

Waterschei Thor's sweeper in the 1983 Cup Winners Cup matches was one Lei Clijsters. Two months after the matches Lei became a father to newborn daughter Kim, who would go on to win four tennis Grand Slams in the early 2000s...

[57vintage]

Jimmy Logie, Keith’s stalwart 1960s right back, showed impeccable skill by chipping the ball over Elgin City’s goalkeeper Adrian Connell at Kynoch Park, earning Keith an unexpected draw.

Years later, after retiring from his plastering trade, Jimmy opened -wait for it - a chip shop, on the town’s Mid Street!