Scottish Fitba Books

[TheDeeDon]

Bring me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford.

Quite a decent read, full of stories about a wide range of Scottish footballers, journalists and TV presenters. Stories about Bobby Clark and Davie Robb are featured, as well as Alex Miller running an Ice Cream van.

My favourite one was Rick Wakeman being the match day announcer at Meadow bank for a period.
I'm not a prog music lover in any way, it was just the randomness of it.

If you like Scottish fitba, it's worth a read.

[TheDeeDon]

Aberdeen's Greatest 50 Games, by Kevin Stirling.

A very enjoyable read.

[TheDeeDon]

Another Stirling book.

This time about the 1954/55 title triumph.

Quite ignorant about the clubs history before the 70s, so enjoyed this one a lot.

Can we repeat the triumph 70 years later?

We live in hope.

[Mason89]

He used to post on here back in the day

[TheDeeDon]

The Rough with the Smooth: The Alan Rough Story - Wasn't a bad read at all for a footballer story.

Yet another book where a player doesn't have much good to say about Alex Miller. It's a bit of a theme in quite a few books of Scottish footballers.

[57vintage]

Arbroathian Fraser Clyne the former athlete who used to stop and tie his pints and do a warm-down as he lapped his fellow runners around the Pittodrie track before 70s and 80s evening games has a new book oot to follow up his impudent tribute to his hame toon team The Aberdeen Men Canna Play Football. Still as obsessed with the Lichties beating an Aberdeen XI 36-0 as the Be-liced Deluded and Hilariously Jealous are about once winning a game in Spain his new book is titled 36-0 which probably gives a clue to the contents. 12 quid from the club shop I understand.

SORT THE FUGGING PUNCTUATION OOT MIN SIBO YOU GRIFTING CAPITALIST UNEDUCATED FOKKER OF FOKK CITY AND SEVERAL SURROUNDING POST CODE AREAS

[57vintage]

Addendum. A Goodreads link to all the books written by the Smokie toon athlete.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...1.Fraser_Clyne

[TheDeeDon]

Got a cracking book out of the Library last weekend called 'Lifted Over The Turnstiles', which is about Scottish fitba grounds, old and new.

A few of cracking pictures of Pittodrie in it too, including one of Hibs game with over 40k squeezed in with folk sitting up on the roof of the Merkland. I can't even begin to get my head around all those folk turning up for an Aberdeen game and I know that was not even our record crowd. There is also another with a hell of a lot of car park spaces next to it.

Most grounds are covered in it and some good stories to be found at most grounds. A couple of pictures of East End Park in the late 60s, where after a huge Celtic support entered all the crush barries had simply gave way to the pressure and had been buckled out of shape. Which seems to have been a regular occurrence back then.

A story in the Arbroath section that Rangers complained the Arbroath pitch was not quite the right size after Arbroath had beat them in the cup, with the lichties getting kicked out. Me thinks the scum wouldn't have complained if they had won the game.

I got the second and third parts of this out the Library last Saturday. A bit more coverage of Pittodrie in the second one, and has been another cracking read. The pictures from the grounds from yesteryear are stunning and possibly a bit of poovery going on here, but I don't think I could have hacked going to games being packed in like sardines. The pictures make the mind boggle seeing how much people are rammed into stadiums.

The second volume speaks more about the changes to the stadiums over the years, so some good pictures of Pittodrie with construction works going on. There is also a picture, which I am sure has been seen by many, of a 16 year old girl being carried out of Pittodrie in 1972, with a knife in her head courtesy of a Celtic supporter.
That photo fairly shocked my loon when I showed him it. I told him I nearly got a dart in the head in 1990, by the very same set of supporters. He asked why anyone would have a knife at the fitba, let alone want to throw it.

I still can't get my head around Scotland holding the records for largest attendances in Europe for Internationals, European and Domestic games.

[TheDeeDon]

I got the second and third parts of this out the Library last Saturday. A bit more coverage of Pittodrie in the second one, and has been another cracking read. The pictures from the grounds from yesteryear are stunning and possibly a bit of poovery going on here, but I don't think I could have hacked going to games being packed in like sardines. The pictures make the mind boggle seeing how much people are rammed into stadiums.

The second volume speaks more about the changes to the stadiums over the years, so some good pictures of Pittodrie with construction works going on. There is also a picture, which I am sure has been seen by many, of a 16 year old girl being carried out of Pittodrie in 1972, with a knife in her head courtesy of a Celtic supporter.
That photo fairly shocked my loon when I showed him it. I told him I nearly got a dart in the head in 1990, by the very same set of supporters. He asked why anyone would have a knife at the fitba, let alone want to throw it.

I still can't get my head around Scotland holding the records for largest attendances in Europe for Internationals, European and Domestic games.

he third volume now done with. Very good reads and some cracking pictures across all three volumes. Covers a whole load of clubs and stadiums.

Another bit of poovery from me in that I don't think I could have endured an uncovered Pittodrie and it would have been even worse back then.

We fitba fans are a spoiled bunch these days.

A little bit of Tannadump. They used to have some sort of small wooden stand back in the 60s, but it wasn't advisable to jump up and down in it due to unsettling the forkies that crawled about the roof timbers and would fall down onto you! Gadz!

[BogBrush1903]

This site is full of adverts now...

Anyway, I read On Fire with Fergie by Stuart Donald, it was good but there were some factual and grammatical errors.

For instance, would someone based in Perth be listening to Brian Moore's commentary on May 11th 1983?

I thought all Scottish regions that night received Jock Brown's commentary (maybe not the Borders)?

He made a big thing about his Dad getting frustrated with Moore so maybe I'm wrong...