On This Day

[JamesMcClean]

Ok an hour early as I’m away to bed!

Dundee United 5 (W.Pettigrew 4, Sturrock) Funny Lot 1

January 30th 1980

SC 3rd Round Tannadice Park

In a game postponed from the Saturday due to a frozen pitch, magnificent United completely dismantled the Funsters in possibly the biggest horse-ing they’ve ever dished out - and I’ve seen a few fours, fives, and of course, sixes, in my time.

Funster Manager Tommy ‘By The Lights Of The Silvery Moon’ Gemmell sent out his Funny Lot with one tactic - kick phuck out of United. They ended up with two red, ump**** bookings and it could have been more. Hegarty was forever christened ‘a cheat’ for the crime of losing a central incisor after a punch in the puss from Sinclair as the Funsters totally lost the plot.

Wullie Pettigrew helped himself to four, yes, FOUR goals with Luggy chipping in with another one after the ball came off Ian Redford’s ar@e. But the biggest cheer from the Arab hordes was reserved for ‘King’ Billy Pirie’s sensational strike to make it, er, 5-1.

Following on from the League Cup win (at Dens) just a few weeks earlier, this result really rubber stamped that the tide was turning in the City. Irrevocably. It genuinely felt like a changing of the guard.

As a ten year old Arab I’d personally never felt a night like it to that date. Not even in the Final a few weeks earlier. It was just unbelievable with a sensational atmosphere. I really can’t believe it was forty years ago now- it still feels like yesterday. What a phucking night.

FTD.
P2BAA.