City of Aberdeen and its football club.

[Auldtoontoby]

Aye Vintage, i work in Brazil and often show some of the guys pics of the Aul Toon.
As you say, some of the buildings there pre date the Portuguese arriving in Brazil, that blows the minds of the locals i work with.

Managed to source Shona MacLean's books through Ebay for my Kindle, be good read next hitch 👍

[TheDeeDon]

Just read on Twitter that on this day in 1980 Neale Cooper made his Aberdeen debut against Killie. Playing in defence alongside a certain Willie Miller. I would have recently have turned seven years old. Also the tickets for the Liverpool European Cup game went on sale and which is described in the post as a bit of an administration shambles.

In this day in 1986, we beat Dundee United 2-0 at Pittodrie and was to be the last game at Pittodrie as manager for Fergie. A decision I am sure he regrets to this day.

[donsdaft]

I mind going down "early" on the Saturday morning,only to find that the Merkland Road queue was already going down King Street.
A brave attempt to start a new queue at a different turnstile came to nothing.

However a cute wee redhead ( sorry, rules ) that I knew, worked at the RGIT with Chris Anderson and I managed to obtain a brief for the Paddock, the last time I was in there.

RIP Neale Cooper.

[Red Zone]

Hi Red Zone,
well, your club, which i know from the 1980th simply still is in my heart, i'm 54 now. They did beat Bayern and Hamburg which were really strong teams but Aberdeen was better that time! My dad was/is a Bayern supporter and i never have been one, and so i was oposition to him and hoped everybody who played FCB will win, and Aberdeen did. Have been to Pittodrie also, last time in 1996 and the mentioned game in Munich UEFA-Cup in 21.02.2008. Every week after Bundesliga and comming home from the stadium i serch for the result from Scotland and yesterday again after our 1:1 against Wolfsburg, the company club of VW with lots of money from the company, i just hit my hand to my head when i saw Aberdeens result against Dunde Utd.
You are absolulety right, even Bayern this season maybe is not that dominating, it will be enough to win the league again, which is a big problem for such a big league like the Bundesliga. Apart from that the league nevertheless is very interesting and what we are very proud of in Germany, at least the absolutely majority of fans, is the fact, that no one can buy a club like in England and other countries, there is no rich arab from Quatar or a billionair from Russia who can buy a club, use it as his toy and has the say than, we still have the so called "50 + 1 rule" which safes the original club behind the profi-team and it's members always the majority of power and deciding important things. The other side of the medaille is, that for this reason there is not so unbelievable much money under way like in the English Premier League but we prefere our situation much more, Leipzig is a special thing that never should be allowed to happen, as it is no real club, it is just a marketing product of Red Bull, like all the others like Salzburg or the Munich Icehockeyteam etc.. We will wait and see how long the rule will hold, hopefully again for a long time...
In Augsburg you are able to get a season ticket on an avarage place for a bit under 500 €, when you are club member for aprox. 400 €, a good one for arround 630 €, as a member arround 560 €. A standing season ticket in the fan curve, the "Ulrich Biesinger Tribüne" you can get for 199 , being a member for 174 €. Augsburg Football Club is one of the clubs with the tickets that are most valued for money. And aye, this season we did beat Leverkusen for the first time ever – good stuff! Main thing as usually to hold the class with not so much money.
Hope this was what you were interested in and what you wanted to know.
Greetings to bonnie Scotland.

Thanks for the info BD. The prices for season tickets are very good and not much more than we pay for season tickets here. Given the difference in the quality of football you guys see, no doubt which offers the best value for money (unless of course we keep averaging five goals per game at Pittodrie!!).

[stewarty27]

I mind going down "early" on the Saturday morning,only to find that the Merkland Road queue was already going down King Street.
A brave attempt to start a new queue at a different turnstile came to nothing.

However a cute wee redhead ( sorry, rules ) that I knew, worked at the RGIT with Chris Anderson and I managed to obtain a brief for the Paddock, the last time I was in there.

RIP Neale Cooper.

Four of us queued taking it in turns, My mate still tells me he heard a well-dressed Wifie behind him asking "Which one's Gordon Strachan ? I was on the fitba special train for the return at Anfield. Supposedly the first "dry" train ever.. Oh dearie Me the whole train was totally blootered by the time we got to Lime St. Vodka, Gin, Whisky, Brandy you name the spirit it there was all camouflaged in Coke Orange Lemonade etc bottles, We were in some Quayside bar at 8am and it was packed with Dandies afore the 11am departure so you can imagine the state when we got to Liverpool. Was anyone on here aboard ?

[neilthedon]

Four of us queued taking it in turns, My mate still tells me he heard a well-dressed Wifie behind him asking "Which one's Gordon Strachan ? I was on the fitba special train for the return at Anfield. Supposedly the first "dry" train ever.. Oh dearie Me the whole train was totally blootered by the time we got to Lime St. Vodka, Gin, Whisky, Brandy you name the spirit it there was all camouflaged in Coke Orange Lemonade etc bottles, We were in some Quayside bar at 8am and it was packed with Dandies afore the 11am departure so you can imagine the state when we got to Liverpool. Was anyone on here aboard ?

We started in the Q the night before. Got the train in from Stoney, went round some Pubs. Maybe in Malt Mill till last orders , then headed off down to Pittodrie with our sleeping bags , to find the Q had already started.

No idea what how where we put the sleeping bags while out drinking , but hey ho.

When we got to the Ticket Window , and bought ONE ticket , discovered we could have got more.......duh !!!

[57vintage]

Four of us queued taking it in turns, My mate still tells me he heard a well-dressed Wifie behind him asking "Which one's Gordon Strachan ? I was on the fitba special train for the return at Anfield. Supposedly the first "dry" train ever.. Oh dearie Me the whole train was totally blootered by the time we got to Lime St. Vodka, Gin, Whisky, Brandy you name the spirit it there was all camouflaged in Coke Orange Lemonade etc bottles, We were in some Quayside bar at 8am and it was packed with Dandies afore the 11am departure so you can imagine the state when we got to Liverpool. Was anyone on here aboard ?

We went to the St Machar Bar for some fortifying pints, and headed for Merkland Road East about 10pm via Orchard St to pick up ‘supplies’ and sleeping bags. Uncomfortable as **** on that pavement, but got tickets about 45 minutes after the turnstiles opened. The number of ****s who never went near Pittodrie, and loved to criticise everything about the club, who wanted tickets was shocking. They were all told to **** off.

The special train to Anfield was a horror show. Pushed into every siding between the Joint Station and Lime Street, food and drink supplies exhausted by the border. Met by mounted feds who escorted us to the game and back again, no chance of getting a pint or onything fae a chipper - NB: CHIPPER, and a seven hour journey hame, only to find when I switched on the TV that Reagan had won the US Presidential Election. Barbarism on many counts.

Forget the Sloop John B, that was definitely the worst trip I’ve ever been on.

[Auldtoontoby]

I went down to away game on bus organised by Muggiemoss club. Left after closing time on Tuesday.
Got into Liverpool, straight to a Legion or working man's social club.
Bus parked away from other buses and had nightmare getting back to. Were being herded back to either train station or other buses before sneaked away.

[TheDeeDon]

Enjoyed reading the remanicices about the Liverpool tickets.
I worked at the bakery on Merkland Road from 89 and they used to speak about that night and the amount of stuff they sold to fans.
As an aside I went to my work one morning in 1990 only to be told by my boss not to get changed and to go down to Pittodrie and stand in the queue for cup final tickets, I thought he was taking the p, a bit like the day I had to find a syrup sieve, but no. When I got to Pittodrie there was a queue and
I was their for hours, but at least I didn't have to sleep outside. That is dedication to the cause.

[stewarty27]

Forget the Sloop John B, that was definitely the worst trip I’ve ever been on.

I dunno I really enjoyed it I've no recollection of sidings or any of the journey South come to that ! Our table was well stocked with Bacardi n Coke in an Orange aid bottle, G&T in a diet Coke bottle and lets not forget the delightful White Russian's in a 4 litre milk tub, Food was not an issue. We joined the long march (nae choice) but a bus stop was dodged into unseen. 2/4 pint later and a taxi to the ground my Mate and I were in Anfield before the Jarrow marchers even arrived . Slept all the way back. Great day oot.