12 hours ago, Boyne said:

My generation was the ‘get out and play football’ generation.    

I’m now in my late 50s and we were probably the last generation to be able to play football in the streets where we lived. Before the streets became too busy and/or too dangerous with cars.

Yet in many places, including the High School in the town in the West of Scotland where I now live and at the Secondary School I attended.

The facilities have improved out of all recognition, from when I played football as a youngster. 1975-1985.

All those years ago!

There are now all weather pitches with floodlights.  

Yet all too often on a Saturday, they appear to be half empty.

There are certainly nowadays ,‘No Football Played In The Streets.’

Not an image but a video of when Hull played Charlton in the FA Cup in 1971l Lots of snow on the pitch. Not sure if the game would go ahead nowadays.

Now that is a proper waterlogged pitch!😀

And so is this one ! Great ‘Five Rivers’ pitchside advert!

Played on pitches like this one, as a youngster.

The legendary Alfredo di Stefano of Real Madrid having a smoke!

Scotland line up at Wembley in 1967...
Greig (Captain) Simpson, Gemmell. McCalliog, Wallace, Lennox, McKinnon, Law, Bremner, McCreadie, Baxter.

Beat England 3-2. A great Scotland team.

Ten shillings for a ticket. Different from nowadays. I remember the ten bob notes. If you were given one as a kid you felt rich.

Colin Stein and Peter Shilton. England v Scotland at Wembley in May 1973.

Colin Stein of Scotland is sent fly­ing by Eng­land’s Brian Labone at Hamp­den in April 1970.

The West Ger­man ref­eree’s decision ? To award Eng­land a goal-kick!

The official attendance was given as both 137,248 and also as 137,438.

Add 25-30,000 for the true attendance!

Above:Real Madrid v Barcelona. 1960 European Cup Semi Final.

Real Madrid v Barcelona. Not sure of the year. I just like the picture.

The Barcelona keeper catching a cross at full stretch and the towering stands in the background.

On 08/01/2026 at 07:29, erskblue said:

England defeat the Austrian 'Wunderteam' 4-3.

7th December 1932 at The Bridge.

Come on Ersk, where's the attendance figure ?? 😂 Don't let the standards slip. !

On 12/01/2026 at 15:17, Boyne said:

Scotland line up at Wembley in 1967...
Greig (Captain) Simpson, Gemmell. McCalliog, Wallace, Lennox, McKinnon, Law, Bremner, McCreadie, Baxter.

Beat England 3-2. A great Scotland team.

The players celebrating after a goal. Eddie on the left. Slim Jim with his socks rolled down.

14 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Come on Ersk, where's the attendance figure ?? 😂 Don't let the standards slip. !

I forgot to put the attendance figure with the other information!

Do most humbly apologise!😀

Attendance figure was given as 40,000.

It was played on a Wednesday afternoon, with a 2.15 pm kick off.

Spectators outside The Bridge for the match.

Some brief highlights of the above game. Picture quality isn’t that great.

Scotland v England 2nd April 1966. Official attendance was given as (‘only’) 123,052!

123,052? I don’t think so!!

The tickets for this match back then, were like gold dust, only more valuable!

The official capacity of Hampden in April 1966 was 134,000 and there are no spaces at all, even in the terracing stairwells.

So add 30,000 for the true attendance figure.

McQueen gives Harvey a right hander !

Brian Moore describes it as a " a great argument" going on !?

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Gordon McQueen playing for Seiko in Hong Kong in 1985-86.

McQueen LEFT hander punch this time ! ..

Kung Fu Fighting. Barca v ..I can't remember!

Cup final I think

On 12/01/2026 at 22:26, Boyne said:

I remember that car, on the way back from Devon in the mini about 73-74 loaded with luggage on the roof rack and the differential went.

After about 40 minutes sitting on the road-side a replacement car came and it was an Avenger and all our luggage went into the car boot it seemed great to be in a bigger car.

On 12/01/2026 at 22:26, Boyne said:

Two of the players in this picture,John Blackley and Arthur Graham didn’t go to Argentina in 1978.

John Blackley had played for Scotland v Zaire in the 1974 World Cup. He was a very decent central defender and moved from Hibs to Newcastle in 1977.

16 hours ago, Boyne said:

Superb!😀😀😀

Pathos Stadium. Just realised we went past this stadium going to and from our hotel in Paphos in July 2017.

Pigeon eye view of the Stadium.

On 25 May 2017, K.O.A (Cyprus Athletic Association) decided to rename the stadium to Στέλιος Κυριακίδης (Stelios Kyriakides Stadium) in honour of the Boston Marathon of 1946 winner from Statos Agios Fotios village!