RIP Ebbe

[57vintage]

I used to rib Pete about his macrobiotic and astrological musings. After the operation to reduce his brain tumour, he sent me a selfie of the stitches in the operation scar on his baldy heid. It looked like someone had been scribbling on him with a biro, and I asked if the surgeon had penned a warning to future heid doctors, “Careful. You’ll not believe the shyte I found in there”. I’ll tell the backstory of the auntie-beefing, which involves fitba, a drummer and a distillery, some other time.

PWLP picked me up to go to Pete’s funeral at 10am. A taxi dropped me off here at 0230 next morning, after a funeral of legend.

[Mason89]

I’d imagine there was a motley crew of both hoors & radges in attendance

[Br0chred]

I know I’m in a minority of one but I thought he was sh1te, a bit of a w@nker and a whole myth has built up around him that he doesn’t deserve

Disagree, I thought he had a plan- the 4-3-3, and wanted to put a structure into the club, who knows if he had had the investment it might have worked. We had Zero cash at the time and lost Eoin and were unable to recruit the players he wanted. We could have been a contender...but ultimately weren't. Don't think it was his fault - see Wiggy

[rico94]

I know I’m in a minority of one but I thought he was sh1te, a bit of a w@nker and a whole myth has built up around him that he doesn’t deserve

He was a good player for us and he was far from being sh1te for us.

I think this thread sums up a lot of Dons fans in the fact that they seem to like players/managers more for their personality rather than what they have achieved at the club.

Its been discussed in the past that the majority of the Gothenburg greats were a bunch of ass holes,I would rather have a bunch of ****ers playing for us if we were winning trophies instead of having likeable chaps and accepting mediocrity.

[Mason89]

Disagree, I thought he had a plan- the 4-3-3, and wanted to put a structure into the club, who knows if he had had the investment it might have worked. We had Zero cash at the time and lost Eoin and were unable to recruit the players he wanted. We could have been a contender...but ultimately weren't. Don't think it was his fault - see Wiggy

I was on about Bisconti

[Mason89]

He was a good player for us and he was far from being sh1te for us.

I think this thread sums up a lot of Dons fans in the fact that they seem to like players/managers more for their personality rather than what they have achieved at the club.

Its been discussed in the past that the majority of the Gothenburg greats were a bunch of ass holes,I would rather have a bunch of ****ers playing for us if we were winning trophies instead of having likeable chaps and accepting mediocrity.

Fair enough. What did Bisconti win?

[rico94]

Fair enough. What did Bisconti win?

He never won anything because he was in a pish team that you remember so fondly.

[Aldo1983]

He was a good player for us and he was far from being sh1te for us.

I think this thread sums up a lot of Dons fans in the fact that they seem to like players/managers more for their personality rather than what they have achieved at the club.

Its been discussed in the past that the majority of the Gothenburg greats were a bunch of ass holes,I would rather have a bunch of ****ers playing for us if we were winning trophies instead of having likeable chaps and accepting mediocrity.

It was an odd time. I think we began to accept we couldn't compete properly with Rangers and Celtic were getting even stronger than them. They had the then Dutch captain when they now have Ryan Jack and Celtic had Larsson who is probably the best foreigner they've ever had and likely to ever have.

It wasn't all good but we can all accept he was pissing against a hurricane.

[Pacman1903]

From Richard Gordon’s ‘Tales From The Dugout’:

“Referee Kenny Clark, when he was fourth official as the Dons were being routed by Motherwell,

“Ebbe turns to me and says, ‘I want to make a substitution’. I remind him I need the…numbers of the players going on and coming off so that I can input them into my electronic board. He…returns with the sheet, but it’s only got the number of the player he wants to put on. I tell him I need to know who he wants subbed off, and he replies, ‘You pick. They’re all pish’.”

Classic

[Pacman1903]

There was a strange enjoyable element to Ebbes time.

A wacky time to be a Dons fan