erm, appreciate the sentiment, and thank you Albert Kidd 'n' that, but not sure 'Arise Sir Albert Kidd' really fits in with our, ahem, general view of things.......
What a wonderful afternoon. I had been preparing for a quiet night, just keeping out the way. Then Albert Kidd changed all my plans. What a hoolly that night.
Hearts lost 5 of their 1st 8 games that season and were near the bottom and 9pts behind Celtic at that stage. It was 2pts for a win then so 9pts was a big gap. They then went 27 games undefeated until they lost on the last day to Dundee and lost the League on goal difference. It was unbelievable to go on a 27 game unbeaten run and not win the League, but the 9pts deficit they conceded at the start to Celtic ultimately cost them. They also didn't lose to Celtic once, they won 1 and drew the other 3. They also beat Rangers 3 times and lost only 1. The Old Firm took only 5pts from 16 against them yet they still lost the league.
@@dhhac8477 Definitely did. There hasn't been a league winner outside Glasgow since. Nobody under 40 has ever even witnessed that sadly. Scottish football was brilliant in the early-mid 80s because Aberdeen and Dundee United won leagues and cups and regularly horsed Rangers and Celtic, often in Glasgow too. Miller, McLeish, Strachan, Eric Black, Stuart Kennedy, Dave Narey, Paul Sturrock, Kevin Gallacher, Maurice Malpas. Those were great times for Scottish football. Aberdeen winning the Cup Winners Cup v. R.Madrid and Dundee Utd winning in Barcelona to knock them out the UEFA Cup are actually the 2 greatest results in Scottish club football history when you consider the resources of our 2 teams against 2 of the biggest and richest clubs in the world.
Great memories - and the first time ever that I had a line up with the bookies - walking back down the Hilltown, counting the pound notes - good times....good times!
away from all the Jambo heart ache stuff the second is a fantastic goal. Kidd picked that ball up in his own half, skinned a couple of opponents, played a perfect give and go 1-2 and first timed it past the keeper! great goal
Back for my annual viewing. My earliest memory of being a Celtic fan. I think the great Albert Kidd emigrated to Australia and came back to Scotland a few years back and Sandy Clarke was still raging and told him to f*ck off 😂.
I remember this very. I am a Celtic fan but confess to feeling a wee bit sorry for Hearts having lost in such circumstances. Only a very wee bit mind you.
only archie macpherson could give us a lesson in mythology whilst opening the commentry for a football game. enjoyable and entertaining game and you cant help but laugh at the third division team feeder club. kidds 2nd goal would have graced any league in the world. up there with archie gemmells. class.
i was feeling a bit gutted that Celtic lost the league yesterday, so im watching this to cheer myself up! You know what? Its working! The feeling at Love street when the Hearts score was coming through was one of the best ive ever known.
The best thing about this deliriously happy & historic day was that the outcome was NOT a shock !. The only ones who thought heartx were going to emerge triumphant was those muppets themselves !. Pedro Kane, Jimmy Burns, Stoogs D etc - boy, did we have ourselves a day that day - I just hope that someday someone u/loads the video of our game v Dundee Utd at Easter Road as the scenes at Sir Albert's 1st goal were incredible !. They best us 1-2 that day yet you'd have thought WE'D win the league !
No Jimi.... YOUR nightmare began. You won about 5 titles in the next 20 years and became an utter irrelevance off the pitch. So if Hearts had a nightmare, you dreamed the same dream pal
The same happened to Dundee in 1949 when we only needed a draw against Falkirk to win the league.We lost 4-1 at Brockville and Rangers snatched the championship.
I felt sorry for them that day,after all,the same happened to us on the last day of the season in 1949 when we only needed a point at Falkirk to win the league. We lost 4-1.
I was there that day and we knew it be a West Coast cutty up as motherwell were beating rangers 1-0 the roar you hear before kidd. Fifth place got you in the uefa Cup. Nae qualifying shite. But usual St mirren lay down to Celtic, the year before St mirren were playing dukla Prague aff the park. The 2 Frank's. Now I look back and I'm gutted we won that day as they might have won the dble. Silver strips, their away strip was white.. Fergusons man utd players would complain abt not seeing the silver.. Alex macdonald put together a great team,of experience and youth. John robertson, colquhoun, Gary mackay, for me the best midfielder that season easy, experience Walter kidd, levin, whittaker and sandy clark.. You get fed up with rangers and Celtic, and that's how there was 25,000 there that day. We had 10.000,they had 15000. So I'm gutted that team lost the league 37 gemes undefeated.motherwell players, well the aines that supported rangers, "its selics league Dundee are winning n rangers will finish 6th.."il have a word we Hugh sproat, you tell the rest o the team t take it easy the last 5 mins, Hugh being great pals we the Girvan lighthouse, 2 in the last 3 minutes,,if you ever see them goals, peles football plays he designed in escape to victory was more believable..but that's what was great 6 year old 7,8,9,..in the 80,s Celtic and rangers dominated nothing.. Got robbed a lot utd and Aberdeen. But everybody went into the season with hope.. Now playing each other 4 times, cmon man, everybody hates it, from the ppl watching it, to the players playing in it.. There wouldn't be nothing games if a league of 16 was adapted, go to Glasgow twice so your fired up as you won't be bk till next season. Morton 10th say Dundee 11th would still get the same crowd and the youngsters can be bled..game after game with no pressure, the pressure would be on the senior players. I've had this discussion with Roy Keane a few times and he agrees with me in principle..he said ferguson didn't like having to have the kids on the bench rule as they never played. Roy said but in Scotland Dennis is right, if you no your not going down bleed the kids. Our families are very close in Cork for generations.. Down to earth Great fella,pointed out to me, Croatia, 4million ppl,worlcup semi finalists with suker et Al, then finalists against France in a 6 goal thriller, in Moscow what a beautiful place, Uruguay 4.1 million,won it twice and beaten finalists, but more kids in Scotland with a population 5.5million.. The kids is the future, let them play with freedom and ull see great Scots again.. Look at gilmour, if his progression is good, I'm sorry but it might be the case of Barry move over. He must be in the squad even for the experience, he'll still be there when Steve clarke is long gone.. #loveabdy
funny and satisfying for so many reasons being a 10 year old at school in leith and watching friends change form hib to hearts fans a family in my street who'd showed no interest in football suddeenly turning into lifelong passionate hearts fans in a matter of weeks hearts players offically releasing a single two weeks before this with a b side melody of "championees" and "hullo,hullo,we are the gorgie boys"(upto our knees in hibees blood) god bless albert kidd
An Edinburgh team goes into a game as favourites, just needing to avoid defeat to win silverware for the first time in years, having had good results against both Old Firm clubs. Their opponents are a team who have survived into the present day despite two administrations. At half-time the score is 0-0. In the second half the Edinburgh team concedes two goals, the second goal being scored by a player who runs half the length of the pitch before scoring. As a result Davie Hay's team wins the silverware. The last day of the league season in 1986? Or the 2004 League Cup Final?
A fun day for Celtic, Hibs and Dundee fans. But I think it was a sad day for neutrals - particularly those of us who generally like to see underdogs succeed occasionally.
David Broadley agreed! I’m a Hibs fan so have unfortunately have never seen my team involved in a title race (except for indirectly) though I did enjoy 1986 for obvious reasons!
Yes they had to win 0 2 and they did just that in 65 I think that wud have been worse for hearts blowing it on there own back yard just like arsenal snatching the title having to win 0 2 on the last day in 89
Dundee did similar in '64-'65 season when Kilmarnock pipped Hearts on goal average to win the league as Dundee won 7-1 at Tynecastle that season. Mind you,Falkirk beat Dundee 4-1 in the last game of season '48-'49 thus depriving Dundee of the championship.
They twirled their scarves around thier heads, 3 hours later they were crying in their beds.All hail King Albert, long may his name be remembered as the slayer of the forces of darkness.Jambos, huns without train fares since 1874.
