Big Tam Forsyth JAWS! What a man ! ....and bowler ...David if you read this .love to the family ...your dad was and always will be pure magic...we know this !
D.J ....our Maradona.....Wee Doddi ....our Paul Scholes ...Stevie Gerrard ...Wee Buffty Tommy McLean....a winger genius ! Then manager! ....John Greig MBE ...Ibroxs Dad! JAWS...BOMBER.. ..what a squad then ...the fittest and the unity in squad ...implemented by my dad and Jock ...I can still hear Jocks voice in my head when I answered the phone ...when he called to discuss football with dad ! .WATP!
I remember dad bringing D.J to my grans after a final win ..he was 18 then and Dad was protecting DJ like a father...D.J gave the Cork from the bottle to me as a 3 year old .....had my grans soup ...then went onto the Mcdonald Hotel with mum dad ...to celebrate with Jock Daphnie...and captain John a nd the players ...WATP
As a Hearts supporter the memories are scarred in the 1976 cup final. 1 down before 3pm kick off! The ref started it early! In the celtic end as a 9 year old, bottles flying everywhere, and pissing it down ! A bad day all around.
1973 cup final my first Rangers game sitting in the main stand with my Da.Came over in an old double decker from the Bristol bar in Duke st Dennistoun got stopped by the copper's cos the back of the bus was scraping along the road must have been near 200 of us on this bus.We were lying on the floor people sitting on other's knee's the bus was bouncing along the road with the singing.Great memorie's
