Random Fitba Facts Thread

[Pacman1903]

(From a book you should all have read by now).

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It sits in my fitba book, book shelf at the top of my stairs. Top row as Dons books get special treatment

As they are in order of date it unfortunatley sits next to Bryan Cooneys book

[deaconred]

Harry Melrose (although his surname would have been, more accurately, 'Malodorous' when he was a Hun).

Harry Melrose, captain of the Dons and the Washington Whips’ acting manager for the early part of the USA season, holds the distinction of being among Rangers’ top goals per game scorers. His record reads:

Played 1, scored 2, average 2.

Harry’s only game for the first team during his spell at Ibrox in the late 1950s was against Brechin City in a League Cup tie when Asian flu was rife in Scotland. He scored twice for Rangers. The game’s final score is less memorable than Melrose’s outstanding debut and resulting record. The impressive records of McCoist and Hateley do not even come close to that of Harry Melrose.

So, a fantastic goals record at Ibrox; an idol at Dunfermline due to the 1961 Scottish Cup win and resulting European displays and Dons’ skipper and acting manager when they played as somebody else in 1967. A legend three times over.

(From a book you should all have read by now).

http://www.afcheritage.org/news/news...stype=Heritage

I think the Brechin game was a semi final at Hampden so he never actually played a first team game at Ibrox.

[Pacman1903]

I was 1

Probablly would have done a better job

[BogBrush1903]

There were discussions and perhaps plans to turn Central Park, Cowdenbeath into an 80,000 (eighty thousand) capacity stadium...

[Pacman1903]

Read this in a book today

The season Eibar got promoted to La Liga for the first time Barcelona won nout. (2013/2014) Due to having the same colours Eibar contacted Barca to see if by any chance they had bought confetti incase of a trophy win. Turns out they in fact had bought heaps. So they were forced to sell it to Eibar on the cheap as confetti has to be degradable there for has a use by date.

Love a random wee fact like that

[Pacman1903]

Read this in a book today

The season Eibar got promoted to La Liga for the first time Barcelona won nout. (2013/2014) Due to having the same colours Eibar contacted Barca to see if by any chance they had bought confetti incase of a trophy win. Turns out they in fact had bought heaps. So they were forced to sell it to Eibar on the cheap as confetti has to be degradable there for has a use by date.

I wonder who came up with that idea. "aye guys, Barca have won f@ck all, they play in the same colours, you know what geez the phone. I have an idea"

Love a random wee fact like that

[57vintage]

Mannies even aulder than me, nae really given to spikkin sh1te, used to tell me that in the 1920s, I think, Hibs were close to establishing a northern version of their club in Aberdeen, to be based at Advocates Park (between Spital and Nelson Street).

[afc1903mad]

In 2019, Aberdeen win 3 games in Glasgow against either SevCo or DeidCo in one season for the first time

[Pacman1903]

The largest football pitch in Scotland is at Hannah Park. Home of Shotts Bon Accord.

So I just read anyway

Ill be there a week on Saturday to measure it

[swaddon2]

Ex-Dons manager Dave Halliday holds the record for the fastest player to score 100 league goals in England, doing it in 101 games.

He is also the only player to score 30+ league goals in four consecutive seasons (1925-1929).