what ever happened to Dunfermline - big club back in the day ; but also in 80s when they came out of Div 2 with QoS - both getting 5000 gates at times (in Div 2 ...)
We waited at the swallow hotel in Dundee , so we could "escort" the unhappy campers down the M90... The kids still laugh about the big tinfoil trophy 🏆 I made and the green n white streamers flapping from the Range Rover roof bars .... I've never seen so many Angry face's through us windows 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭 Happy Days 🥳🎊💚🍀
The 80s aberdeen were an iconic club. The all red strip was a sight to behold and as a celtic fan i could name every player in their side every season until the club went into decline in the mid 90s. Scottish football is a shadow of its former self unfortunately. The support is still there but the Bosman ruling,the signings of third rate foreigners,sky tv and the souness millions ruined the game up here and all we have now is a boring two horse race. I miss the old aberdeen,dundee utd and hearts. And of course the dundees,hibs and motherwells of this time were of a high standard too.
Almost every single day just now at some point, I watch old football videos from my collection or online, like on RU-vid or wherever. From Scottish, English football, to Cup Finals, Internationals, World Cups and European Championships, as well as old British sports shows such as Grandstand, Saint and Greavsie, A Question of Sport, Scotsport, Match of The Day, They Think It's All Over, Sportscene and many more.... It gives me comfort, real comfort and it helps me appreciate the great sport of football for what it truly once was, the beautiful game and how much I embraced and loved it from a young age. It's not only the comfort it gives me, but it is always probably the biggest thing that gave me and my Dad a connection, FOOTBALL. Hundreds of matches attended over the years together, lots of memories, but one match I will never forget attending was the 1989 Skol League Cup Final between Rangers FC and Aberdeen Football Club on Sunday 22nd October 1989. Now, growing up a Rangers fan, it was disappointing as we lost after extra time with two Paul Mason goals for Aberdeen, with Mark Walters scoring a first half penalty to equalise Mason's first half opener. This was the third year in a row that Rangers and Aberdeen had faced off at Hampden Park in the Skol Cup Final, the previous two years were two of the greatest Cup Finals Scottish football had ever seen. This was another exciting end to end Cup Final and it was my first proper experience of the build up and travel to the Cup Final on match day. We were living in Northern Ireland at the time having not long moved there after leaving Berlin earlier in the year before The Wall came down. We left Ballykinler in the early hours of the morning that Sunday to travel over to Scotland (I had already experienced this same journey a month before when we travelled to Glasgow from Northern Ireland for the Semi Final vs Dunfermline Athletic FC at Hampden Park, which Rangers won 5-0), catching the Ferry from Larne to Stranraer in the early hours, then heading up to Glasgow. Getting to Hampden Park, going to the back of the old main stand to see the team buses arrive pre-match, getting into the stadium early, soaking in the amazing intense atmosphere, I really felt the butterflies in the stomach like nothing I have ever felt before at a football match! This was huge to me, Hampden Park in a cup final with so many great players on both sides, I really admired that Aberdeen team at the time as well! I even learnt the words that day to "Charlie Nicholas, yer a w*$*#r, yer a w*$*#r, "Charlie Nicholas, yer a w*$*#r, yer a w*$*#r!"... Which my 9 year old self found pretty amusing, though I remember looking at Charlie Nicholas strutting across the pitch whilst hearing this charming chant and actually feeling a bit sorry for him in that very moment as 50,000 Rangers fans were chanting abuse at him. Champagne Charlie got the last laugh though as he laid it up to Paul Mason for what proved to be the winning goal in the first half of extra time. At the end of the match, the Rangers players walked up the stairs of the main stand to collect their runners up medals and then the Aberdeen team went up to collect their winners' medals, I watched on (from the old North Terracing, directly across from the main stand) as Willie Miller lifted the Skol and Scottish League Cup trophies aloft. I remember feeling sick in the stomach that my team had lost in the Cup Final. But this was huge, I knew I was experiencing something amazing, a packed Hampden Park in a Cup Final between two of Scotland's biggest rivals at the time and it was experienced with my Dad who had taken us over from Northern Ireland. I will never forget the ferry ride back over late that night back to Larne from Stranraer and that choppy, rough, windy and rainy Irish Sea! I was as sick as a dog and couldn't wait to get off the Ferry! I remember trying to act all brave and strong, puffing my chest out as we went back down the deck into the car as we arrived back across the water. Memories 🙏⚽❤️
