Greenock Morton v Aberdeen

[Mason89]

2-1 to the good guys

https://afcheritage.org/matches/match-report?id=3699

[swaddon2]

I mind following the 7-3 win in 1996 on Ceefax. I thought that the mannie (or wifie) who did the typing was having a laugh or something.

[57vintage]

2-1 to the good guys

https://afcheritage.org/matches/match-report?id=3699

What I remember most, for some reason is our pal Neil suddenly falling to the ground on the open terracing to the left of the main stand and being in agony with some sort of knee injury. A copper told us the first-aiders were at the far end of the stand, so we supported him around the track to get the injury seen to, right across the dugouts. No offer of help from either of the physios and the advice was ?go to casualty in Aberdeen?. Neil still partook of The Pints though.

[The_Moog]

You?re not missing out on anything

Yeah, I had the ?pleasure? of working in Greenock for 6 months back in the late 90s.

Rained every day & a more grim, desolate & run down shytehole Ive never had the misfortune to visit.

Just a simply dreadful place with no redeeming features. So ill nae be gaan on Saturday.

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

Yeah, I had the ?pleasure? of working in Greenock for 6 months back in the late 90s.

Rained every day & a more grim, desolate & run down shytehole Ive never had the misfortune to visit.

Just a simply dreadful place with no redeeming features. So ill nae be gaan on Saturday.

Never been to Grimsby then?

[57vintage]

Never been to Grimsby then?

I'll see your Grimsby (so bad that Grimsby Town play in Cleethorpes) and raise you Skegness, Llandudno, Bridlington, Whitley Bay, Withernsea and a half-dozen other down-at-heel faded-glamour seaside holiday shriteholes we've collected on our vacations* around GB in the past 20 years.

*Whitley Bay was for a Dexys'comeback gig in May 2012

[Don Julio]

Bridlington - more mobility scooters than you could shake a stick. In a whole different league to Grimsby.

And then there?s Morecambe.

[Mason89]

At least these places offer up sea views. The ex mining towns along the M8 or East Ayrshire are the grimmest places in Scotland

That said, my idea of Hell on earth would be living in Luss

[57vintage]

At least these places offer up sea views. The ex mining towns along the M8 or East Ayrshire are the grimmest places in Scotland

That said, my idea of Hell on earth would be living in Luss

I did time canvassing and leafleting in Jim Sillars?s South Ayrshire constituency in the 1979 election. Patna, Ochiltree, Dalmellington - holy ****, it was appalling. Like a throwback to the 1930s. Added to that was the local NUM?s openly-violent attitude to anyone who wasn?t on the side of my fellow Keith Grammar School alumnus George Foulkes, the Labour candidate, eventual winner of the seat, and 100% crunt. Had these boys sent a couple of shift rosters of pitmen down to Orgreave, I think the coppers (and the un-numbered uniform-wearing military bastereds) would have had a few more bruises.

[Mason89]

My work took me to Patna a few years ago. It?s a deeply unsettling wee place. I cant imagine its changed much since you were there