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There's a story somewhere in the dark recesses of what used to be my memory of Ping and Ian Sproat on a train.

It's only '57 that'll remember Ping but for everyone else all you need to know is that Baldrick in Blackadder was almost certainly based on him ( in his Ashvale Place years)

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There's a story somewhere in the dark recesses of what used to be my memory of Ping and Ian Sproat on a train.

It's only '57 that'll remember Ping but for everyone else all you need to know is that Baldrick in Blackadder was almost certainly based on him ( in his Ashvale Place years)

Ah, Ping. A 'keeper about the same height as Joe Harper, but with an incredible ability to keep the ball out of the net, even when my wayward penalty box sclaffs when defending corners threatened the Theos' (NE) goals against tally.

"Dinna be scared to pass the ball back to me, 57, my good man," he advised when I first helped Alfie oot by digging the Adidas Santiagos oot of the depths of the cellar. taking him at his advice, I became more proficient at the art of the passback than Davie Narey.

The Baldrick comparison is uncanny.

Try to remember the Sproat tale. I'd love to hear it.

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Given that Ping was possibly the first person to be banned from working offshore for trying to start a union, you can imagine that the encounter wasn't that friendly.

I've always thought of Baldrick as Ping.


Quick Ping story.
I once came home on A Saturday night to find Ping had broken into my flat and was fast asleep on my chair with half a fish supper.
His telly wasn't working and he'd come round to watch the fitba.
Obviously he had flaked out within seconds or he would have certainly finished his chips.

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Baldrick in goals
Front row, fag in hand





F'uck sake, look at that lot.
Don't mess with Theologians North East

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I assume that that's the annual thrash with the Glasgow Theos?

Alfie on the 'keeper's right in the back row?

Dinna post it on the other board where criminals are being discussed - that lot is a photofit editor's dream.

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I assume that that's the annual thrash with the Glasgow Theos?

Alfie on the 'keeper's right in the back row?

Dinna post it on the other board where criminals are being discussed - that lot is a photofit editor's dream.

Aye, Theologians v Theologians NE

End of season 77/78

Morning of a cup final. Possibly the one where Rougvie got sent off.

Correct spy with Alfie.
Charlie Scrimgeour might be more difficult to find.





Ping got pished the night before ( we were all plied with drink at the Aragon) and vowed he would shave his beard off if we lost a goal.
B'astards made us play on blaze, I think we lost 5-1 or something.

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Aye, Theologians v Theologians NE

End of season 77/78

Morning of a cup final. Possibly the one where Rougvie got sent off.

78 would have been 1-2 in the Scottish Cup final. Steve Ritchie's wonder goal. 6 May.

Charlie Scrimgeour might be more difficult to find

Aye, but nae if he had his shorts off.

It was like a two-litre Fanta bottle.

Fa's that two to the right of Ping's Embassy Regal?

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Davie Robb's faither must've been a busy loon aboot 20 years afore that photie was taken