Originally Posted by
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.