I got booted in the ribs at the Jan game off 92 after the 2nd goal went in. Sore for a few weeks. My gran made me fo to drs. I found out I was about 5-6 months pregnant.
Must've been some kick...
I got booted in the ribs at the Jan game off 92 after the 2nd goal went in. Sore for a few weeks. My gran made me fo to drs. I found out I was about 5-6 months pregnant.
Was at this game, But have absolutely no recollection of it.That's a pic I took at 93 cup final, Dolly are in the Rangers End.
I was in celtic end that day! I reckon there was 3000 bears in it. Mad days.April 1987 we lost 3-1
Sorry mate dont remember that ever happening.
I was on the Clarkston bus that day. That may have been the game where the bus stopped at the chapel on Ballater St and ‘rebuked’ some filth.Mine too. Went on the Clarkston bus.
youre wrong mateThe only ground where Bears were in the celtic end was Old Hampden in the 71 and 73 SCF. This never happened at the piggery or Ibrox.
Must be going senile then as a few folk have confirmed it. Either that or I was oot ma nut at the time.youre wrong mate
we had plenty in their end at the game i mention, not sure of the date
we were congregated towards the main stand side, a big mass of fans with no colours which is unusual at a rangers celtic game in those times, eventually the police formed a barrier.
Wash your hands for 20 seconds with a strong disinfectant, even after all these years the germs may still linger!I remember grabbing a mentally challenged's scarf in the toilets under the Centenary Stand before it was seated. Probably early 70s.
Great post. Remember these times well. Bog roll day was inituated because the piggery was (still is) such a shithole. ’Sash in the jungle’ was also popular when we played cup semis there.I remember this quite vividly as I was not far behind the said banner. It was in the section nearest their main stand. Bada Bing is correct.
It was a number of Ulster Flags all the same size stitched together and it actually had a union flag in the center of it. Guys were holding it up and police were sent in to pull it down as no doubt it was wrongly construed as being 'sectarian'. They were repelled! There was actually a photo of it at the time and what helps my memory was the chant went up of 'Ulster Says No'. There was a real feeling of defiance and no way were they coming in to take it down.
This was around 91/92 and at that time, while there was the odd flag/banner in the grounds it wasn't massively widespread for clubs to have them at domestic games. More big away trips. For me, this incident above changed this
There was a piece in Follow Follow about and it may actually have made the papers and was incorrectly reported. Off the back of this, the fanzine then put out a call to arms for everyone to mobilise and dig out any banner they had and turn up at the next game at the Piggery and get them up. It was the first of the modern 'Flag Days'. This led to the resurgence of the bringing of flags to games. I remember reading the rules in the FF which was along the lines of no gang names, no swearies and no paramilitary themes. I believe it was the 2nd Flag day there where the photo was taken which eventually was made into the famous poster that was given free with the fanzine of the full Rangers end with hardly an area not being covered with a banner of some description. It also coincided with us playing in the very first Champions League format and with the influence of European fans doing similar, our supporters and RSCs started getting their own ones made up.
Make no mistake that our support led from the front (coordinated with the fanzines) with creating atmospheres during this period ( we also had the bog roll day!)and it was some time until the Tims caught on and started to have any kind of attempts to keep up with us.
Oh and it was also mentioned in this thread about us all singing along to 'Grand Old' Team; with the Ha Has. This was started at Parkhead by us as we lorded it over them continually during the 90s and it took quite a period before they beat us and got the chance to retaliate by doing it to the Billy Boys. This got more attention as the cameras of course were above the Jungle, but again, we had been doing it way before this, they were just nicking our support's ideas
I think it was the 1-3 defeat in Souness's 1st season, the area next to their main stand and next to the floodlight pylon was very subdued when the scum scored.Sorry, but it definitely happened at Parkhead. There was a large section of our fans in the terracing at their end, right next to the main stand. When they scored, a whole section at that bit never cheered and remained still.I think that it may have been the game where we were on a really long run of undefeated games in the eighties. I remember we all commented on it at the game at that time.
I do remember our fans in their end at Hampden as you mention.
We've all been there Sir!Must be going senile then as a few folk have confirmed it. Either that or I was oot ma nut at the time.
My one and only game v Celtic at Parkhead was in 87 when Billy Stark scored and won the game for them.. Iv'e never set foot in the place since, and never will...
You are completely wrong sir - 3 times it happened in quick succession where we had thousands in the Celtic end. Late 1980’s where we got beat 2-0 in Mark Walters debut game and then following onto the next games.The only ground where Bears were in the celtic end was Old Hampden in the 71 and 73 SCF. This never happened at the piggery or Ibrox.
Yep - I was in their end that day.No colours and we were all congregated in one cornerI think it did happen once mate, not long after Souness joined.
I've heard a few of the older lads in our supporters club talking about a couple of thousand Rangers supporters buying up tickets for the Celtic end at the piggery.
They were all together at the London Rd side of the Celtic end.
Think we lost the game 3-1.
Yep - I was in their end that day.No colours and we were all congregated in one corner
I wasted a brand new pair of white puma trainers on my first visit due to the red ash and getting stood on, never knew any better. Remember some fans climbing onto the roof supports and police trying to get them down.You had to wipe your feet on the way out, all that shitty red ash that they had. If it was raining your trousers were covered in crap if you did not have the sense to tuck them into your white posrts socks that were 3 pairs for a pound. Those stupid turnstiles that you went up stairs and all the protection you had was a brick wall that did not look the safest. Petty wee thing nowadays but in the early eighties when soldiers and civilians were getting blown to bits in NI it used to wind me up no end seeing that tricolour flying above their stand above their terrorist funding support.
No m8 - moved away years ago.Do you know anyone in the Gartsherrie Bowling Club mate?
No m8 - moved away years ago.
souness first season at the piggery 87 we lost 3-1 and i was along with hundreds in the celtic end next to the main stand, when we scored to pull it back to 2-1 the police herded us out. went round the ground and were let in our end.The only ground where Bears were in the celtic end was Old Hampden in the 71 and 73 SCF. This never happened at the piggery or Ibrox.
Some of us “faked injury” so that the St Johns Ambulance folk would take us to first aid then ask which part of the ground were you in? The Rangers endsouness first season at the piggery 87 we lost 3-1 and i was along with hundreds in the celtic end next to the main stand, when we scored to pull it back to 2-1 the police herded us out. went round the ground and were let in our end.
mars bar dayI was at the game in 93 (I think) when we won 4-2 we were 3 up in about 10 mins, I was in our end just beside the jungle, their meltdown was something to behold.
One of the great football days of my life
So when they cut our allocation to a narrow strip of seats in the corner we thought it was ok to keep giving them a full stand ? At long last things were made right thoughWe got 22000 in the Rangers end at their ground plus 5000 in their main stand for a while during the late 70’s and early 80’s
I’m sure that was a Wednesday night game after Ian Redford had a goal disallowed, McGarvey scored the winner for them, reply to SSR
Ah no bother mate.
Good friend of my old man drinks in there.
Scottish cup final 93 v Aberdeen. They had part of the Rangers end.That looks like its taken from "celtc"end! Scottish Cup semi?
The thing was the Tims had unfurled a huge tricolour behind their goal at the time this was happening and there was no move by the polis to remove it. this understandably incensed us hence the reaction when they came into the Rangers end to try and take the flag away. Dumbarton Harp CSC was on theirs if I remember correctly.good post mate,i remember it vividly as well,as you say there was no way they were getting that flag,you could feel the atmosphere turning nasty very quickly,the Rangers support was not to be messed with,the coppers wisely backed down
Sure we shared a bus with the Whifflet Loyal to Germany in the late 80's. Possibly 0-0 against Munich.I was a member of the Gartsherrie Derry bus in the late 60s early 70s although I stayed at the other end of the town. Ive got a cracking picture of the supporter's dance taken around 1970 but I dont know how to post it.
When I got married in 1975 I bought a flat across the road from the club but by that time the bus wasnt running and I joined the whifflet Loyal.
A polis threatining to lift me for firing an imaginary shotgun in the direction of the jungleThey never got half at Ibrox and we never did at the piggery from my recollection. 1962 was a couple of years before I started to go to games so maybe it was different then....
I remember her telling me for 3 days she better get homeSure we shared a bus with the Whifflet Loyal to Germany in the late 80's. Possibly 0-0 against Munich.
Was a mental trip - remember getting back to Dover and realising it was going to be the middle of the night by the time we got back and I didn't have any house keys. Phoned home to tell the then Mrs to leave the door open and she asks - "Were you at the Football?".
Not sure where she thought I'd been for the previous 3 days. Maybe she hadn't noticed that I was gone.
I remember her telling me for 3 days she better get home
Could explain why she's the ex Mrs.I remember her telling me for 3 days she better get home
Must've been some kick...
I was theer that day the polisman went down like a sack of tattiesSeen that, always thought it was an Irn Bru bottle, remember seeing it spinning through the gap then landed on top of his napper.
Has there ever been a more mentally challenged sounding line up. ChristFirst time there, first ever OF game was 1st Jan 1986, we lost 2-0, still have my ticket stub, Janefield St, £2.50. The singsong tho was immense.
Celtic:
Bonner W McStay McGrain Aitken McGugan Grant McClair P McStay McGhee Burns Archdeacon Subs: McAdam McInally
Scorers: McGugan 9 McClair 49
Rangers:
Walker Dawson Munro McPherson Paterson Durrant McCoist Russell Williamson D Ferguson (Bell) Cooper (McMinn)