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Far too much piety on display,and nae doot a touch of hypocrisy,with regard to Scott Brown’s pavement photograph. The account below is from the P&J in March 1923, This is a proper mannies’ fitba’ nicht oot and an interesting extension of a cheese and wine party. Note to current players: the defence solicitor’s plea in mitigation was that ‘he scored the goal’
‘An Aberdeen footballer’s Saturday night carousal led to his appearance along with a woman, before Bailie Wright at the Aberdeen Police Court yesterday on a charge of theft.
He was Douglas Thomson, inside right of the Aberdeen football team, and the woman was Mary Taylor, residing in Guestrow, They were charged with stealing eight bottles containing a quart, a pint, and two gills of whisky, two gills of port wine, 1½ pints of stout and two pints of beer, 12 ounces of cheese, five slices of bread and a bottle of lemonade from the Bon-Accord Hotel, Market Street, Aberdeen early on Sunday morning.
Both pleaded guilty and were represented by Mr R S McKay, solicitor, who said that Thomson was the one who scored the goal against Third Lanark on Saturday.
He went to the Bon-Accord Hotel in the evening to meet some football friends and got some drink – too much, unfortunately – and he remembered nothing more.
Mr Gavin Sinclair (procurator fiscal) said the celebrations commenced in quite an ordinary manner but developed into a carousal and, after leaving the hotel, Thomson made one or two more visits.
He met the woman and her husband. All had been drinking, and the woman went back with Thomson to the hotel. Unfortunately when they were coming away with the stolen articles they were “nabbed” by a policeman.
Each of the accused was fined 30s, the money being paid in court.’
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