PART ONE – AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2007 Accies won the First Division Championship in 2007-08 , this is a look back at another successful season. August 2007 Accies began the 2007/08 season with a home league match against Dunfermline Athletic. In front of a bumper crowd in the summer sunshine of 3,383. Dunfermline had been …
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Scotland Late Winning Goals
Kieran Tierney and Kenny McLean scoring injury time goals to clinch qualification for World Cup 2026 brought back memories of other important late goals for Scotland. 1 Jim Bett v 1-0 Iceland 28/5/1985 Scotland travelled to Reykjavik at the end of the 1984/85 season for a tricky World Cup qualifier for Mexico 86 and a …
GEORGE BEST
George Best – 325 Days in Edinburgh George Best became a global football superstar in his days with Manchester Utd between 1963 and 1974. His drinking and social life took him away from football and he ended up playing in the USA before returning to England to play for Fulham in 1976-77. After a further …
Lanarkshire Cup
Weekend Tournament 1979-1985 The Lanarkshire Cup was a competition played in the post war era by Lanarkshire’s four senior football clubs – Airdrieonians , Albion Rovers , Hamilton Accies and Motherwell. The tournament was a damp squib in the mid to late 1970s with games sporadically played and in many cases no final being played. …
EURO 1976
The recent award by UEFA to Slovakia as joint winners with Czech Republic following the Czechoslovakia triumph in 1976 had me reminiscing about a much forgotten football tournament particularly in the UK, where only the Final was shown on Live TV. Euro 1976 was the last of the old style format with 32 countries divided …
Hamilton Accies 1985-86 Part 1
PART ONE – AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1985 Accies won the First Division Championship in 1985-86 , this is a look back at an amazing season. (For context the league was made up of 14 teams playing each other 3 times meaning a total of 39 games and two points for a win) August 1985 Accies …
Welsh clubs in ECWC 1960-1999
The European Cup Winners Cup was a cup for National Cup Winners run by UEFA between 1960 and 1999. Welsh teams who played in the English football leagues also competed in the Welsh Cup with the winners qualifying for the ECWC , which was always somewhat controversial as they also competed in the FA Cup …
Bobby Graham & Willie Pettigrew
As a youngster growing up in Lanarkshire my interest in football developed at a time when Saturday afternoons were reserved for shopping with my parents. The politics of the day in 1974 with the 3 day week and power cuts that resulted in football matches being moved to Sundays led my Dad to take me …
Lanarkshire Football in 70s & 80s – Part 2
My early football memories in Lanarkshire – Part Two 1976-1980 1976/77 The League Cup saw Motherwell finish bottom of their group with no wins from their six group games and only two draws. Hamilton Accies set up a final day showdown with Falkirk at Douglas Park for a place in the Quarter Final. Around 4000 …
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Football is Academical 