Gordon McQueen scoring the first of the two Scotland goals against England on 4th June 1977.

England v Scotland 4th June 1977.

51 mins of bbc Highlights. John Motson and Jimmy Hill commentating.

Ticker tape reception as Argentina and Holland line up before the 1978 World Cup Final. 25th June 1978.

The former home of Scarborough F.C.The Athletic Ground, on Seamer Road Scarborough built in 1898.

It became ‘The McCain Stadium’ until Scarborough F.C. were dissolved in June 2007.

The site is now a Lidl Superstore.

Happily,Scarborough were rebounded as Scarborough Athletic F.C. Society Ltd and are a supporter owned club currently playing in the North East League.

Klopp pulls hamstring running to confront 4th official 😂😂

Redheugh Park: was the original stadium of Gateshead AFC until 1973.

The type of surface we played on from mid 1970s - mid 1980s! No sliding tables or fancy coloured boots on those pitches…😀😀😢

And yes, the above picture was of a pitch I played on for my secondary school back then! 😀😀😀

Ravenscraig Stadium in Greenock. Played on it in the early 1980s.

Yes, just occasionally we did play on a grass pitch back then!

It was the venue for the first official Scotland v England’s women’s international football match in November 1972.

Poland have just scored n their 2-1 win over Italy, in the 1974 World Cup Group Match. June 1974.

The Poles went on to take third place in the tournament.

Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion. One of the venues for the 1974 World Cup.

John Wark scoring one off his two goals for Scotland against New Zealand. World Cup Group Stage. Seville.on 15th June 1982. Scotland won 5-2.

They were 3-0 at half time. Dalglish and John Wark scoring and Scotland were seemingly cruising to victory.

However, this is Scotland in a World Cup tournament.

New Zealand scored two goals before the 65th minute! John Robertson and Steve Archibald then both scored and this eased the Scottish nerves

Goalscorers. Scotland . Dalglish 18, Wark 19, 32, Robertson 73, Archibald 79. New Zealand Sumner 54 and Wooddin 64.

A bank of yellow. Brazil supporters at the Brazil v Argentina game in the 1982 World Cup.

Western Park, former home of Renfrew Juniors. My local Scottish Non League Side.

Renfrew played at Western Park from their formation in 1912 until 2014. The club moved to their new ground in 2015.

They moved literally 200 metres or so west to ‘New Western Park’ (not much thought went into that name!) 😀

‘The Bonnie Prince’,Charlie Cooke, played briefly as a teenager for Renfrew Juniors, before signing for Aberdeen.

A rare picture of one of the grass pitches in my old home town I played on as a youngster.

Rare, because it’s not pouring with rain and the pitch isn’t a sea of mud or almost waterlogged.

And, yes, of course we played on it in all three conditions!

Denis Law in acrobatic action against Zaire. June 1974.

Joe Jordan scores against Zaire. June 1974.

I can remember the excitement in the build up to this game, despite it being played 52 years ago!

There must have been an enormous number of new coloured televisions in the West of Scotland,being rented for this game.

My parents got ours two weeks before the game. My grandparents got theirs just in time for the Scotland v England game the previous month!

The player on the left, Martin Doak, was the grandfather of current Scotland player Ben Gannon Doak.

Sadly Martin died in 2024, aged just 60.

We played football when we were youngsters, as he on the same street as me back in the 1970s

Willie Johnston playing for Vancouver Whitecaps in the NASL.

And taking on Phil Neal (and very probably beating him😀) at Wembley. 4th June 1977.

Livano Comenencia is mobbed by team-mates after scoring Curacao's first ever World Cup final goal. And Germany weren’t a bad team to score it against.

The packed Hampden terraces watch the 1964 Scottish Cup Final.

There are literally no spaces to be seen on the terracing stairwells. 120,982 officially saw it.

Add easily 30-35,000 for the real attendance.