Scottish Fitba'

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Hmmm,interestmaunt-will text someone on this-used to be such a friendly place too-but sometimes the wrong type move in and standards slip
Take it that they're still breathing

They are...

That said I have met some characters that I suspect I wouldn’t have liked to meet on a dark night back in the day - and they were decent and friendly guys. And interesting. What I heard happen was now maybe 8 yrs ago - maybe a little more. I think it’s a very different place these days though still quite a bit of poverty.

A relative of mine does church charity work there helping new residents furnish their flats with furniture the charities won’t or can’t take. And they have a lot of customers with basically nothing. But that’s I guess the place fair numbers find themselves in. So these days more poverty than violence I’m thinking And certainly a very different looking place with lots of new housing. I was pleasantly surprised.

 

[toyboy54]

Sorry SILH...I was trying to be 'tongue in cheek' and was kidding about standards slipping. As for poverty?Look around you ..it's everywhere throughout the U.K.
As to your comment about 'lots of new housing'-so true but sometimes you just cannot upgrade some peoples mindset to match the upgraded housing they've been offered.My dad's last job as a clerk of works with G.D.C.was the renewal/rebuilding of Castlemilk-he loved it considering he was employed as a joiner when originally built-called in to see him one day and he shpwed me some revamped flats in Ardencraig Drive-new everything,really,really nice compared to what we had before-pulled up couple of floorboards to show me the drugs stash hidden.
He just shook his head,so,so disappointing but what could he do9Police were on way and workies were going thro' everywhere with toothcomb.--Drugs were invented when we were there-what a scourge-------Mods sorry, sod all to do with scottish fitba, but trying to explain to SILH!
Back to subject.....think the moronic element have well and truly effed everything up for OF game (and maybe rest of season-and not just for us,but everyone)!!
Played right into Mrs.Krankies hands-spoke to 2 real diehard Rangers ticket holders this a.m. at pro shop and,like me ,they are well angry at behaviour of so called real fans.

 

[toyboy54]

Sorry chapter 300 should read'Drugs WEREN'T invented when we were there'

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Sorry SILH...I was trying to be 'tongue in cheek' and was kidding about standards slipping. As for poverty?Look around you ..it's everywhere throughout the U.K.
As to your comment about 'lots of new housing'-so true but sometimes you just cannot upgrade some peoples mindset to match the upgraded housing they've been offered.My dad's last job as a clerk of works with G.D.C.was the renewal/rebuilding of Castlemilk-he loved it considering he was employed as a joiner when originally built-called in to see him one day and he shpwed me some revamped flats in Ardencraig Drive-new everything,really,really nice compared to what we had before-pulled up couple of floorboards to show me the drugs stash hidden.
He just shook his head,so,so disappointing but what could he do9Police were on way and workies were going thro' everywhere with toothcomb.--Drugs were invented when we were there-what a scourge-------Mods sorry, sod all to do with scottish fitba, but trying to explain to SILH!
Back to subject.....think the moronic element have well and truly effed everything up for OF game (and maybe rest of season-and not just for us,but everyone)!!
Played right into Mrs.Krankies hands-spoke to 2 real diehard Rangers ticket holders this a.m. at pro shop and,like me ,they are well angry at behaviour of so called real fans.

Yes - the new houses and flats on Ardencriag Rd look fine indeed...but the issues up there on the braes are indeed societal.

Just on the OF fans - I am wondering if this helps the very many good and decent OF fans to understand better (if that be needed) why many if not most of us who are not so aligned find a sort of the schadenfreude joy when things go wrong for either of the OF - and I say that having regularly expressed my view that I can support them when they are representing Scotland in Europe- but sometimes that is not so easy. Yes I know it's a numbers game...but that does not excuse the arrogant and reckless behaviour of their minority. It's not the first time, and none of it does the name of Scottish football much good.

 

[IanM]

I support them when they are representing Scotland in Europe- but sometimes that is not so easy.

Right enough, if you start watching when the footy starts, they are often already out!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Right enough, if you start watching when the footy starts, they are often already out!

Well Rangers doing fine this season...and that's great...and I am pleased

 

[toyboy54]

Well Rangers doing fine this season...and that's great...and I am pleased

You're correct about the 'schadenfreude' effect-and rightly so-as these morons act as if they are 'entitled' in some way to do what the hell they want and sod everyone else-some more humble pie a(along with big dose of quiet satisfaction) may be in order.
As for IanM's dig--yeah, has a point as history may not be totally on our side but,-if he can be bothered to check the records,then he may find that for one of the 'lesser' nations we punch well above our weight in semis reached not to mention finals in the various comps since EUFA came into being in the 1950s
Entitled(that word again) to his opinion though!

 

[KenL]

Right enough, if you start watching when the footy starts, they are often already out!

Part of that is the biased system (based and financed by TV revenue) that sees Scottish clubs having about 3 qualifying rounds starting in July.

Rangers and Celtic have done very well to get through that in recent years.

 

[IanM]

Calm down chaps... just having a wee bit of fun with you! No other team will even win a European trophy again with a whole team born in the same City!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Calm down chaps... just having a wee bit of fun with you! No other team will even win a European trophy again with a whole team born in the same City!

And these days not many teams will win one of their countries national trophies with at team of players all born in that same country...now I wonder which team that might be

 

[toyboy54]

Calm down chaps... just having a wee bit of fun with you! No other team will even win a European trophy again with a whole team born in the same City!

Very gracious of you Ian,and,as a wind up it semi-worked(you git) Can you enlighten us as to the team you support please--purely for survey purposes of course

 

[IanM]

Absolutely. The quite awful Aldershot Town.

I was born and raised 8 miles from their ground and, when I lived there, went to every game. Had some great Scots players when I started going in the late 70s too. I even went from Wiltshire I lived there. I could have defaulted to Liverpool/Man U etc, but that's not acceptable!

I've also worn an Aldershot shirt at both OF grounds when I worked in Glasgow. It got some wry smiles!

Fill your boots!

 

[davidy233]

Absolutely. The quite awful Aldershot Town.

I was born and raised 8 miles from their ground and, when I lived there, went to every game. Had some great Scots players when I started going in the late 70s too. I even went from Wiltshire I lived there. I could have defaulted to Liverpool/Man U etc, but that's not acceptable!

I've also worn an Aldershot shirt at both OF grounds when I worked in Glasgow. It got some wry smiles!

Fill your boots!

Back when I lived in Guildford in the early 70s I watched Aldershot (long before they were Town) win promotion in 1973 and finish 8th in the 3rd the season after - a few eventful fan experiences on that one terrace when teams like Millwall, Bristol Rovers and Hereford visited. We generally went to Aldershot one week and Guildford City the next with the odd visit to a bigger game in London.

 

[IanM]

I grew up in Burpham. My grandad played for Guildford City..used to go to St Joe's Road as a nipper...I was about 8 or 9 when they folded.

We went to Aldershot from there on in from about 75 onwards. By 78 didnt miss a home game for years. And the trip from 92 onwards was excellent...

Yep..good old 70s and 80s when you'd jump on a train to London and go to any ground you fancied for only a few quid. How times change. Not all for the better.

 

[davidy233]

Yep..good old 70s and 80s when you'd jump on a train to London and go to any ground you fancied for only a few quid. How times change. Not all for the better.

Especially when some of your mates' dads worked for British Rail so they could get you dirt cheap train tickets. I lived in Stoughton from 11 till 16

 

[williamalex1]

Very gracious of you Ian,and,as a wind up it semi-worked(you git) Can you enlighten us as to the team you support please--purely for survey purposes of course

Hopefully a good Omen for tomorrows Slavia Prague game, kick off time is 17-55 .
Fingers crossed, onwards and upwards, but I won't bet on it.
A win or a draw would be fantastic, but 1 - 0 wouldn't be a disaster, FFollow.

 

[Val]

Same here I got 55 messages in a row

But did you get 54 on your old phone? ??

 

[KenL]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...fifa-insist-rangers-same-football-5752723.amp

 

[rudebhoy]

The constant references to "55" in a desperate attempt to bolster the notion that the club did not die in 2012 are pretty cringeworthy. It even got a mention in the letter of complaint the Rangers chairman sent to the Scottish Govt, blaming them for the weekend scenes.

I'd bet 99% of Celtic fans couldn't tell you off the top of their head how many titles the club has won. Same goes for Man Utd, Liverpool, Bayern, Ajax or any other consistently successful club.

I don't remember anyone banging on about "the 54" back in 2011.

 

[KenL]

The constant references to "55" in a desperate attempt to bolster the notion that the club did not die in 2012 are pretty cringeworthy. It even got a mention in the letter of complaint the Rangers chairman sent to the Scottish Govt, blaming them for the weekend scenes.

I'd bet 99% of Celtic fans couldn't tell you off the top of their head how many titles the club has won. Same goes for Man Utd, Liverpool, Bayern, Ajax or any other consistently successful club.

I don't remember anyone banging on about "the 54" back in 2011.

All Celtic fans know is that it is less than Rangers.?