Scottish football

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Open game this

 

[gonetomorrow]

There's going to be a few goals in this game. Hibs defence still can't handle the crosses.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Var would give that

 

[Chris O'Connor]

One of the things I’d like to do one day is get a camper van and go on a tour of the highland league. That would be great.

That sounds like a proper football man talking, hope you realise that ambition I reckon the memory would live with you all your life.

I've worked in Chester for most of the last decade and one of my colleagues is a mad Chester City fan, watches home and away and had visited every lower league ground. He was the only fan who was ecstatic when they were relegated to the Conference and lost their league status, to him it meant 20 or so new tiny grounds dotted about England he'd never ever visited before. Likewise with subsequent relegations too. He used to run the Chester fanzine when they were a league club too..

They're now in the same league as my local team Southport and always have a few with him before the match at the Deva in Chester or up here at Haig Avenue.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Tony Watt .
Should've been a player.
What a waste

 

[larbert toffee]

Tony Watt .
Should've been a player.
What a waste

Apologies but it's Sunday, it's sunny and any excuse to play this.

 

[The Celtic View]

Apologies but it's Sunday, it's sunny and any excuse to play this.

They could have a tribute band Eileen Drewery and the blockhead...

 

[Brianblue]

That sounds like a proper football man talking, hope you realise that ambition I reckon the memory would live with you all your life.

I've worked in Chester for most of the last decade and one of my colleagues is a mad Chester City fan, watches home and away and had visited every lower league ground. He was the only fan who was ecstatic when they were relegated to the Conference and lost their league status, to him it meant 20 or so new tiny grounds dotted about England he'd never ever visited before. Likewise with subsequent relegations too. He used to run the Chester fanzine when they were a league club too..

They're now in the same league as my local team Southport and always have a few with him before the match at the Deva in Chester or up here at Haig Avenue.

Great stuff from your colleague, I’d have liked to see the fanzine.
I never buy programmes anymore, they are expensive and full of adds like a small magazine really.
I always look for old school fanzines. Far more DIY and punk feel.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Apologies but it's Sunday, it's sunny and any excuse to play this.

Sunday and Sunny...reasons to be cheerful.

 

[Brianblue]

There's going to be a few goals in this game. Hibs defence still can't handle the crosses.

Entertaining game this.

 

[HeartofMidlothian]

This is poor history. I'll dig out the info later and put it on here. But Hibs were frozen out (and violently kept out on occasion) by football teams and their fans and the Edinburgh football establishment - INCLUDING Hearts.

“The strength of ties to the city’s Irish community actually served as a barrier for the club to enter official competitions, with the Scottish FA banning the club from the Scottish Cup, stating that “we are catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen,” while the Edinburgh FA also moved to keep them out of competitions within the region.

Ironically, it took their now great rivals to help them establish the Hibees as a legitimate club in Scotland, as they went against the guidance of the two associations to offer Hibernian their inaugural match on the Meadows.”

- TheseFootballTimes, 2015

 

[HeartofMidlothian]

Hello mate, why don't you introduce yourself? Post loads.

Thanks, I might do. Consider me an educator. ?

 

[larbert toffee]

Thanks, I might do. Consider me an educator. ?

You sound vaguely familiar

 

[davek]

“The strength of ties to the city’s Irish community actually served as a barrier for the club to enter official competitions, with the Scottish FA banning the club from the Scottish Cup, stating that “we are catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen,” while the Edinburgh FA also moved to keep them out of competitions within the region.

Ironically, it took their now great rivals to help them establish the Hibees as a legitimate club in Scotland, as they went against the guidance of the two associations to offer Hibernian their inaugural match on the Meadows.”

- TheseFootballTimes, 2015

That doesn't contradict what I stated.

You could say that Celtic were Rangers best friends - on the basis that their rivalry helped polarised around themselves whole communities in conflict with each other and allowed them to cash from it...it's not called the Old Firm for nothing. Same difference with the Edinburgh two.

 

[HeartofMidlothian]

Anyway, I think Hearts will do just fine this season. Probably a bit crap away from home as usual but Tynecastle will become a fortress again, although I suspect it will be next season before a tilt at a European placing. Prediction: 5th.