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1 hour ago, compo said:

Aberdeen will be cockahoop after Saturday

Did you not mean “Aberdeen will be wanting to make amends after Saturday”?
 

Actually, iI thought they were lucky against poor opposition. Showed little in the way of energy or desire.

To make @compo greet.
 

1955 FA Cup Final, Newcastle United v Manchester City (I thought City only got invented five years ago) 

3-1 United and four Scottish Internationalists on the park, Jimmy Scoular, Bobby Mitchell and Ronnie Simpson (uncapped at the time) for United and Bobby Johnstone, City. Johnstone scored with a header. United defence should have been ashamed.

City won the 1956 Final, Johnstone scored again.

33 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Another horrible day for Chelsea - losing 4-1 at home to Wolves. Send for Big Sam or Neil Warnock 😀

Be fsir. 2-4.

Because of a combination of satisfactory results I watched sportscene from which these random notes.

Tav has started whipping corners in under the bar instead of vague loops into the box.

Butland featured running out of the tunnel but not again.

Aberdeen have few supporters. The team didn’t play with the frenzied physicality they employ against Rangers. Miovski’s goal was excellent but a draw against poor opposition was a lucky result. Rangers ought to win comfortably in midweek.

Dundee v Hearts was a great game. Lorenzo Scianclando was brilliant.  Not good enough for Rangers, of course. Just like Willie Wallace wasn’t.

1 hour ago, yuddie said:

everything is calm and commanding.

 

That’s the kind of ‘keeper I like.

41 minutes ago, compo said:

Neil Warnock is the man they want 

Any other old-style English rescue specialist manager come to mind?

No way to treat the man who plucked the phoenix out of the Darvel ashes.

Speaking of Ayrshire, might a promising manager in the county be a prospect?

Cornflakes only, though Rice Crispies are acceptable but both must be Kelloggs. No other cereal will do.

I checked the founder’s name. It’s fine.

Busby, Shankly and Ferguson probably did influence English football in as much as every one of them developed a club philosophy and a style of play that other clubs tried to follow. O’Neil and Billy Bingham were successful managers to a degree but I don’t think anybody wanted to copy them.

I don’t think outstanding players like George Best or Denis Law had any real influence on the game.

38 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

Also the great Hungarian Hidegkuti (sp)in the Puskas team.

Forgot about Hungary. (How could I?) Revie or his manager McDowall must have got the idea from them. Interestingly, one of Revie’s forward partners was Bobby Johnsone, the hibbee. An inside right, he must have played more as a centre forward with City because he scored quite a lot of goals. He reverted to goal maker when he came back to Hibs opening the gates for Joe Baker.

14 hours ago, Fa1833 said:

The ones with a young family like pep Xavi etc how long do they actually get to spend with there kids  could even factor gerrard

Did Gerrard’s kids leave Liverpool?

32 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Maybe more of a 'false 9' or whatever the hipsters call it.

“Deep lying centre forward”: Don Revie, Manchester City, 1955. Nothing’s new, not even Manchester City.

Good old fashioned game, great atmosphere plus a break in.

Wolves’ yellow shirts don’t look like old gold, though.

Here’s the 1956 match. Some more notable names. For Fulham, Bedford Jezzard and Jimmy Hill (Booooooo) for Newcastle, a young Ronnie Simpson.

Fulham fans giving a lamentable version of the Billy Boys as supporters of English teams always do. Four times too fast and a bizarre change of key.

C’mon Newcastle.

Switched on for Fulham/Mags but I’ve misjudged the kick-off and there are still juveniles prattling on about nothing. 
 

Big bonus, though. 1950s footage of a high-scoring game between the two featuring Jackie Milburn and the Fulham ‘keeper being bundled into the net, old style, and no one turned a hair.

Teams are out. I wonder who’ll be out at the end?

3 hours ago, 26th of foot said:

I seem to remember there was a Typhoid outbreak in the mid-sixties in the Granite city.

No mosquito was involved.

2 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

He was signed from Aberdeen. Who knows what horrible diseases lurk there?

Contrary to popular belief, Kittybrewster is not a malarial swamp.

I saw the last fifteen minutes. Maidstone dead on their feet didn’t enter the Ipswich penalty box to trouble our old boy, George Edmundson. The Ipswich ‘keeper was playing on the halfway line. Maidstone utterly outclassed but the Ipswich players didn’t seem to be bothered by the way the match was going. They probably thought they could have launched a missile but the Maidstone ‘keeper would have caught it or at worst, turned it round the post. Attired in orange he nonetheless played as though anointed. 2-3.

19 minutes ago, CammyF said:

2 games on the bounce where Cantwell has been hooked at half-time. Carrying a knock or Clement unimpressed? 

Good judge of a player.

21 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

Don't broadcast this too loudly, but get your GP to refer you to a dental hospital; the students will do it for free if you are an interesting case. (Don't worry, they will not let novices loose on you.)

Good tip. On the face of it.

First: catch a GP.

Second: on further reflection and remembering the many dental students I used to know three score years ago, you’re maybe better just to try a bit of thread and a slamming door.

18 minutes ago, compo said:

I was more of a Valentine Dyall person,The Man In Black 

Used to scare the living daylights out of me.

Goal. No doubt whatsoever.

City paid big bucks for Doku. Doesn’t look better than Matondo.