10 hours ago, Boyne said:

Includes Tommy Langley. Also in the picture is Alan Curbishley. I don't recognise any of the other names.

No nor do I.

Just shows how few actually progress to full senior level

By that, I mean club level, not full international level.

5-4 to Scotland in front of 69,000 people plus it on ITV !

 No pressure then...

England – P Lara (Heston Comprehensive School), M McGinty (Bishop Ullathorne School), D McClure (Edgware School) (captain), D Byrom (St Augustine’s School), W Donald (Furze Platt School), P Wimbleton (Broomfield School), D Willis (Benfield School), P Rideout (Kingsdown School), G Parris (Seven Kings High School), R Jones (Woodlands School)

Sub: P Brown (Washwood Heath School) for Jones

Scotland – A Bruce (Craigmount High, Edinburgh), E MacDonald (Belshill Academy), A O’Connor (St Ambrose High, Coatbridge), C Plenderleith (Currie High, Edinburgh), R Coyle (St Gerard’s Secondary School, Glasgow), P Nicholas (Holyrood Secondary, Glasgow), J Robertson (Portobello High), P McStay (Holycross High, Hamilton) (captain), J Sludden (St Mungo’s High, Falkirk), S Rae (Musselburgh Grammar), A Dick (St Modan’s High, Stirling)

https://thefootballexperience.com/2016/09/01/england-4-v-5-scotland-schoolboys-june-1980/

The article is worth a read.

Edited April 10, 20206 yr by erskblue

11 minutes ago, erskblue said:

5-4 to Scotland in front of 69,000 people plus it on ITV !

 No pressure then...

England – P Lara (Heston Comprehensive School), M McGinty (Bishop Ullathorne School), D McClure (Edgware School) (captain), D Byrom (St Augustine’s School), W Donald (Furze Platt School), P Wimbleton (Broomfield School), D Willis (Benfield School), P Rideout (Kingsdown School), G Parris (Seven Kings High School), R Jones (Woodlands School)

Sub: P Brown (Washwood Heath School) for Jones

Scotland – A Bruce (Craigmount High, Edinburgh), E MacDonald (Belshill Academy), A O’Connor (St Ambrose High, Coatbridge), C Plenderleith (Currie High, Edinburgh), R Coyle (St Gerard’s Secondary School, Glasgow), P Nicholas (Holyrood Secondary, Glasgow), J Robertson (Portobello High), P McStay (Holycross High, Hamilton) (captain), J Sludden (St Mungo’s High, Falkirk), S Rae (Musselburgh Grammar), A Dick (St Modan’s High, Stirling)

https://thefootballexperience.com/2016/09/01/england-4-v-5-scotland-schoolboys-june-1980/

The article is worth a read.

I'm guessing that P McStay who went to Holycross High is the Paul McStay who played for Celtic. I know that he stayed in Larkhall just up the way from Hamilton.

Edited April 10, 20206 yr by Boyne

11 minutes ago, erskblue said:

5-4 to Scotland in front of 69,000 people plus it on ITV !

 No pressure then...

England – P Lara (Heston Comprehensive School), M McGinty (Bishop Ullathorne School), D McClure (Edgware School) (captain), D Byrom (St Augustine’s School), W Donald (Furze Platt School), P Wimbleton (Broomfield School), D Willis (Benfield School), P Rideout (Kingsdown School), G Parris (Seven Kings High School), R Jones (Woodlands School)

Sub: P Brown (Washwood Heath School) for Jones

Scotland – A Bruce (Craigmount High, Edinburgh), E MacDonald (Belshill Academy), A O’Connor (St Ambrose High, Coatbridge), C Plenderleith (Currie High, Edinburgh), R Coyle (St Gerard’s Secondary School, Glasgow), P Nicholas (Holyrood Secondary, Glasgow), J Robertson (Portobello High), P McStay (Holycross High, Hamilton) (captain), J Sludden (St Mungo’s High, Falkirk), S Rae (Musselburgh Grammar), A Dick (St Modan’s High, Stirling)

https://thefootballexperience.com/2016/09/01/england-4-v-5-scotland-schoolboys-june-1980/

The article is worth a read.

I'm guessing that P McStay who went to Holycross High is the Paul McStay who played for Celtic.

Derby v Leeds 'having a disagreement'.

This is the famous Franny Lee v Norman Hunter 'boxing match' game !

Sorry, double post.

1 minute ago, Boyne said:

I'm guessing that P McStay who went to Holycross High is the Paul McStay who played for Celtic.

Yeah it was mate.

6 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Yeah it was mate.

Cheers mate.

Michel Platini v Portugal, in the amazing Euro 84 Semi Final.

 Michel Platini playing against Belgium in Euro 84.

How France hosted and won Euro 1984 (and British TV ignored the action) article below.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2016/jun/10/france-euro-1984-tv-bbc-itv-platini

 

Edited April 11, 20206 yr by erskblue

16 hours ago, erskblue said:

Derby v Leeds 'having a disagreement'.

This is the famous Franny Lee v Norman Hunter 'boxing match' game !

Speaking of Norman Hunter, he was just diagnosed with coronavirus.

Speedy recovery to him.

17 hours ago, Jezz said:

Speaking of Norman Hunter, he was just diagnosed with coronavirus.

Speedy recovery to him.

Seconded.

On 10/04/2020 at 21:24, Boyne said:

I'm guessing that P McStay who went to Holycross High is the Paul McStay who played for Celtic.

And I'm guessing the  captain D McClure is the Doug McClure who played Trampas in The Virginian.

3 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

And I'm guessing the  captain D McClure is the Doug McClure who played Trampas in The Virginian.

The Virginian takes me back. Remember watching that as a kid.

3 minutes ago, Boyne said:

The Virginian takes me back. Remember watching that as a kid.

Can't remember seeing it on any of the rerun channels, so it must have been pretty dismal. Another one of the same  era that never gets rerun is Daktari.

1 minute ago, Backbiter said:

Can't remember seeing it on any of the rerun channels, so it must have been pretty dismal. Another one of the same  era that never gets rerun is Daktari.

Haven't seen it on rerun channels either. I watched Daktari as a kid. With Clarence the cross-eyed lion. For the last two or three weeks The Time Tunnel has been shown on the Horror Channel. Has aged reasonably well.

On 09/04/2020 at 21:24, erskblue said:

Some more.

Sorry Wee Pat !

Chris Waddle hair permed at the back, remember getting that done mid 80's. 

On 10/04/2020 at 21:11, erskblue said:

5-4 to Scotland in front of 69,000 people plus it on ITV !

 No pressure then...

England – P Lara (Heston Comprehensive School), M McGinty (Bishop Ullathorne School), D McClure (Edgware School) (captain), D Byrom (St Augustine’s School), W Donald (Furze Platt School), P Wimbleton (Broomfield School), D Willis (Benfield School), P Rideout (Kingsdown School), G Parris (Seven Kings High School), R Jones (Woodlands School)

Sub: P Brown (Washwood Heath School) for Jones

Scotland – A Bruce (Craigmount High, Edinburgh), E MacDonald (Belshill Academy), A O’Connor (St Ambrose High, Coatbridge), C Plenderleith (Currie High, Edinburgh), R Coyle (St Gerard’s Secondary School, Glasgow), P Nicholas (Holyrood Secondary, Glasgow), J Robertson (Portobello High), P McStay (Holycross High, Hamilton) (captain), J Sludden (St Mungo’s High, Falkirk), S Rae (Musselburgh Grammar), A Dick (St Modan’s High, Stirling)

https://thefootballexperience.com/2016/09/01/england-4-v-5-scotland-schoolboys-june-1980/

The article is worth a read.

Remember watching it on TV, think Paul Rideout scored a hatrick

8 minutes ago, chi blue said:

Remember watching it on TV, think Paul Rideout scored a hatrick

Paul Nicholas – He had signed ‘S’ forms for Celtic, joining his older cousin Charlie, who had just started to break through into the first team. Paul wasn’t as fortunate and was released. Scotland youth coach Andy Roxburgh recommended him for a soccer scholarship at Harvard University in Boston.

After leaving university he then went on to work for a major merchant bank in New York

Didn't do too badly did he !

40 minutes ago, erskblue said:

One of my favourite Rangers shirts. Had one many years ago.

Amateur game from Feb 1979 !

Football on the front of NME !

Steve Archibald playing for Barcelona v Juventus.

17 hours ago, erskblue said:

Football on the front of NME !

I used to flick between reading NME, Sounds and Melody Maker. Three fine music papers. I don't think any of them is printed nowadays. Found this. Pat's interview with NME. I think that it's been posted before. I love the comment in the second picture where Charlie Nicholas is described as hapless.