Tag: travel
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Semi final – St. Johnstone vs. Celtic.
20th April 2025. Hampden Park, Glasgow. May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty. — John Hampden Celtic playing St. Johnstone in the latter stages of the cup puts me in mind of their 1969 League Cup final meeting, the plucky Saints against the mighty Celts. The former have…
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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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Fourth Round – Hibernian vs. Clydebank.
Easter Road Stadium, Edinburgh. 18th January 2025. It is quite lovely – bits of it – Oscar Wilde Edinburgh isn’t so much a city, more a way of life… I doubt I’ll ever tire of exploring Edinburgh, on foot or in print – Ian Rankin This is were the cup gets its charm – when a…
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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 