Upcoming AFC milestone anniversaries

[swaddon2]

In September, Pittodrie will be 125 years old.

Next year, it will be 70 years since our first League win (1955) and 40 years since our last (1985).

30 years since our League Cup win over Dundee (1995) and 35 years since our last Scottish Cup win (1990).

Also 120 years since our top flight status began, and has never been broken (apart from during two World Wars).

[Bojangles9]

Stop it, time is moving too fast…

I wonder if thon bike Glass got in 95 has survived?
I remember being caught up in the scarf twirling at that final. Jambo behaviour, I apologise…

[57vintage]

Stop it, time is moving too fast…

I wonder if thon bike Glass got in 95 has survived?
I remember being caught up in the scarf twirling at that final. Jambo behaviour, I apologise…

The Coca-Cola bike was stored in Glass’s father-in-law’s shed, I believe, and was offered to the club’s Heritage Trust www.afcheritage.org probably just to get it out of the way. The Trust struggles for space to store everything of which it has custody so they decided to offer it in a raffle with tickets a fiver each which went into the Trust’s funds. My info is that someone from Peterheid won it. Within a few days, the winner contacted the Trust saying that they didn’t have to room to keep it, and I think it was delivered back to the Trust who have presumably found a corner for it somewhere. At 29 years old, I’d guess that it needs new tubes and tyres, the chain linkages and derailleurs examined, new cables on the gears and brakes, and an upgrade of the brake blocks. Estimates free.

[Far Planet]

First time poster here, approx 20 years season ticket holder.
I was helping a relative of a friend to move house / dispose of unwanted stuff about three weeks ago. One item which was taken to Hazlehead recycling centre was a red framed Cola Cola mountain bike. I am not claiming it was Stephen Glass's mountain bike as it differed in small details to the one in Ally Begg's video. There may be more than one. It was won in a raffle years ago by it's owner who lived in Peterculter. I couldn't bring myself to throw it into the scrap metal skip so took it to the re-owning shop on site where the lady accepted it for resale. Hope it found a new home or is still on sale. Could be restored. the frame was in good original condition, the rest was as 57vintage suggests above.

[57vintage]

First time poster here, approx 20 years season ticket holder.
I was helping a relative of a friend to move house / dispose of unwanted stuff about three weeks ago. One item which was taken to Hazlehead recycling centre was a red framed Cola Cola mountain bike. I am not claiming it was Stephen Glass's mountain bike as it differed in small details to the one in Ally Begg's video. There may be more than one. It was won in a raffle years ago by it's owner who lived in Peterculter. I couldn't bring myself to throw it into the scrap metal skip so took it to the re-owning shop on site where the lady accepted it for resale. Hope it found a new home or is still on sale. Could be restored. the frame was in good original condition, the rest was as 57vintage suggests above.

Interesting. Welcome aboard.

[TheDeeDon]

I mind going to Hampden for my first cup final by myself in 1990 thinking trips to watch us lift trophies being the norm for my pending adulthood.

35 years without the cup is bad right enough, not quite Hibs bad, but bad enough.

Even more sad is we were the last non cheeks team to win the title and that was when I was still at Primary school!

[Bojangles9]

First time poster here, approx 20 years season ticket holder.
I was helping a relative of a friend to move house / dispose of unwanted stuff about three weeks ago. One item which was taken to Hazlehead recycling centre was a red framed Cola Cola mountain bike. I am not claiming it was Stephen Glass's mountain bike as it differed in small details to the one in Ally Begg's video. There may be more than one. It was won in a raffle years ago by it's owner who lived in Peterculter. I couldn't bring myself to throw it into the scrap metal skip so took it to the re-owning shop on site where the lady accepted it for resale. Hope it found a new home or is still on sale. Could be restored. the frame was in good original condition, the rest was as 57vintage suggests above.

So it presents like the real thing but is actually a pretendy makie-on version? Sounds like a certain football team…

I’d always assumed it was a rarity but you are indeed right, there are several, a quick search reveals one for sale on Gumtree[?] in Motherwell. Can’t remember Motherwell winning the league cup in my lifetime so I guess these were on general sale or everyday competition prizes. Cheers Far Planet, everyday is a school day.

Like you though I would still have been unable to bin it.
Nostalgia is acceptable when it comes to our teams.

[swaddon2]

I'm surprised that the club didn't do anything to acknowledge the 125th anniversary of our stadium. Unless they did, and I missed it.

[57vintage]

I'm surprised that the club didn't do anything to acknowledge the 125th anniversary of our stadium. Unless they did, and I missed it.

Chris Gavin?s recently-published ?Pittodrie? sees its anniversary being celebrated by the Heritage Trust and I trailed its availability a couple of weeks ago.

https://afcheritagetrust.bigcartel.c...r7d6WiapC9HvFw

[57vintage]

?and sort out the punctuation - not in the book which has been forensically proof-read - Sibo. You are approaching Ryan Jack treachery levels you tucking fwat.