Tag: Football
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The Final – Aberdeen vs. Celtic.
24th May 2025. Hampden Park, Glasgow. I’ve been a wanderer all of my life, any many a sight I’ve seen – Mary Webb, The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen. The tenth round of the cup! The final and the end of the road to Hampden for this wee project. Pre match chat was all about…
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Quarter Final – Celtic vs. Hibernian.
9th March 2025. Celtic Park, Glasgow. “Trying hard to feed her little starlingsUnconsciously she clips their little wings” – Michael Marra, Mother Glasgow. “Football is nothing without fans” – Jock Stein. The warm sunny afternoon in Culter last August is starting to feel like a very long time ago as we reach what pundits call…
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Fifth Round – Ayr United vs. Hibernian.
Somerset Park, Ayr. 7th February 2025. I’d never been to Ayrshire, I hitched down one Saturday Friday night;Sixty miles to Kilmarnock Ayr to see Hibernian play – The Proclaimers, Joyful Kilmarnock Blues. Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses,For honest men and bonny lasses. – Robert Burns, Tam O’ Shanter, 1790. What a priviledge to…
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Third Round – Clydebank vs. Buckie Thistle.
Holm Park, Clydebank. 30th November 2024. When we started out, I thought we were really going somewhere. But this is it. We’re just going. Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde, 1967). We have reached the half way point in this season’s odyssey, but have yet to visit a senior ground. This round’s journey…
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First Round – Strathspey Thistle vs. Sauchie Juniors.
Seafield Park, Grantown-on-Spey. 28th September 2024. By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For…
In the Hat 