The 1911 FA Cup Final between Bradford and Newcastle.   Crystal Palace.
 A crowd off 69,068 saw a 0-0 draw.

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An action photo from 1965. Milan v Juventus. 

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Marcel Desailly & Gianfranco Zola. 1993.

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A beautiful sight but then I am biased.

4 hours ago, Boyne said:

A beautiful sight but then I am biased.

Boyne:There is an interesting article about the 1971 Ibrox Disaster on the bbc website.
Don’t know if you have seen it.

STOP PRESS -Celtic seemingly looking to sign a certain Ally McCoist from  Sunderland . Shoot Magazine Feb 1983.😀.
  Boyne , you might need ‘A Wee Dram of Whisky’  before and after you read this one!🍻

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Ibrox Stadium in 1974. The year I started going to football.

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Graeme Souness and Bryan Robson.   Hampden 1985.

Birmingham City's St Andrews during the big freeze of 1963.

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2 hours ago, erskblue said:

Birmingham City's St Andrews during the big freeze of 1963.

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Something about old football stadiums in the snow, very eariy  looking,  the ones of the bridge are no exception 

2 hours ago, erskblue said:

Graeme Souness and Bryan Robson.   Hampden 1985.

One word springs to mind...... CRUNCH!

7 hours ago, chi blue said:

One word springs to mind...... CRUNCH!

1Tommy

The above picture is of Tommy Smith v Norman Hunter in the 1965 FA Cup Final.

Chi Blue : CRUNCH !😀

 

Dave Mackay confronts Leeds midfielder Billy Bremner in 1966.

MacKay was just making a comeback from a broken leg and thought Bremner had deliberately tried to injure him in the tackle beforehand.

Bremner ‘bottle’ has gone !😀

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Paul Sturrock of Dundee Utd v Neuchâtel Xamax in Nov 1985.

 

Paul Breitner and Harald Konopka in the snow. Jan 1978.

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13 hours ago, erskblue said:

Boyne:There is an interesting article about the 1971 Ibrox Disaster on the bbc website.
Don’t know if you have seen it.

@erskblue Is that the one about the eight young lads (three Celtic fans and five Rangers supporters ) who went to the match? Very moving. So sad that the five 'Gers fans didn't return home. A while back I watched the documentary about Gate 13. Again, very powerful.

 

13 hours ago, erskblue said:

STOP PRESS -Celtic seemingly looking to sign a certain Ally McCoist from  Sunderland . Shoot Magazine Feb 1983.😀.
  Boyne , you might need ‘A Wee Dram of Whisky’  before and after you read this one!🍻

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I never knew that. That is a shock. A bottle rather than a dram may be required. I'm glad he didn't! What might have been if he had signed for Celtic. As for Charlie Nicholas, I remember some football pundits expressing surprise that he signed for Arsenal and said that he should have gone elsewhere. Possibly tempted by life in London. He didn't perform well at Arsenal.

9 hours ago, Boyne said:

@erskblue Is that the one about the eight young lads (three Celtic fans and five Rangers supporters ) who went to the match? Very moving. So sad that the five 'Gers fans didn't return home. A while back I watched the documentary about Gate 13. Again, very powerful.

 

Yeah it is. There’s also a programme about it on the bbciplayer.

Very poignant and as you say, very powerful.

9 hours ago, Boyne said:

I never knew that. That is a shock. A bottle rather than a dram may be required. I'm glad he didn't! What might have been if he had signed for Celtic. As for Charlie Nicholas, I remember some football pundits expressing surprise that he signed for Arsenal and said that he should have gone elsewhere. Possibly tempted by life in London. He didn't perform well at Arsenal.

It was Shoot Magazine it was originally in.    Don’t know if there was ever any remote truth in it!

30th  Dec 1995 at Ibrox. Paul Gascoigne jokingly gave the ref a yellow card!
The ref had dropped it inside the Hibs penalty area.

 
The ref, Dougie Smith. Obviously had lost any sense of humour he ever had. And Responded by booking him !

The USSR goalkeeper Rinat Dasaev is beaten by a long  shot from Brazil's Socrates for the equalising goal during their Group F match WC 1982.

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The new Copland  Road Stand being built at Ibrox in 1979. Pic: Trinity Mirror.

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Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Peter Springett stands in his penalty area as the snow falls down in match against Arsenal

Sheff Wed players discuss conditions as ref considers abandoning the game due to the worsening blizzard.
He did !