25 years ago, Scotland were due to play a World Cup qualification game against Belarus on the day of Princess Diana’s funeral. The SFA, then run by chief exec Jim Farry, the same man who was eventually removed from office for delaying Celtic’s registration of Jorge Cadete, decided the game should proceed as planned.
Whatever you think of Farry, he acted without concern for the royalist contingent. Despite the SFA’s offices being vandalised and Scottish Secretary, Donald Dewer, applying political pressure, Farry dug in: ”We have taken heed of the various viewpoints, but let’s be reasonable about this, life does and must go on.”
He did not act alone, the SFA International Committee were involved, and they included Celtic’s Jack McGinn, and the Greatest Football Administrator the world has ever known, Campbell Ogilvie! This was a strange time in Britain, maybe the strangest few weeks of the last century.
Royalists were split between backers of the self-styled Queen of Hearts (honestly), and those in the minority, who sided with the actual Queen. The Queen, a bit like Farry, held out as long as she could against the indulgent wallowing infecting millions, by resisting calls to lower flags to half-mast.
Before the end of the week, royal flags were lowered and the Scotland game was postponed. Those of us who never took an interest in royalty were often heard saying “Let’s be reasonable about this”, but were largely ignored.
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Gerry
They would be keeping up with tradishun if they weren’t cheating in one way or another, maybes if they had paid their taxes her maj could have afforded better medical treatment, so they basically killed her >:)
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I will leave you with a very difficult question – who is the bhoy?
Here we F’n Go…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJh6YmZLlg
TET 3.05pm
:-)
Aye .. they all love their monarchs but happy at evading their taxes
Cheating is in their DNA
Scullybhoy
Davie Provan?
Alfie
79caps on 11th September 2022 3:11 pm
Scullybhoy
Davie Provan?
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fanadpatriot on 11th September 2022 3:12 pm
Alfie
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Sorry gentlemen, but no.
Danny Crainie
Pete C – did you live and work in MK ?
I lived late 80s mid 90s.
Would also go for Danny Crainie
bournesouprecipe on 11th September 2022 3:20 pm
Danny Crainie
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You are scary my mhan.
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Croftcelt on 11th September 2022 3:25 pm
Would also go for Danny Crainie
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Excellent.
This no-one will get.
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Hot Smoked, I grew up in The Jungle (although it was always called the Hayshed in our house). Imo (although age may be deceiving me) you have it right. The Celtic End was always where the singing was loudest. I associate especially with Celtic Cha cha cha.
George Connolly and Bobby Graham
Scullybhoy
Got more chance naming the ball boy😵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrjqj50Gi4
Do you remember this now deceased club? You think that they would have learnt a lesson after seeing what happened to Third Lanark.
!!Bada Bing!! on 11th September 2022 3:32 pm
George Connolly and Bobby Graham
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Well done. You have won 2 tickets for the return game V Madrid. Well, you will if you can say what connects these two games.
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!!BADA BING!! on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:32 PM
George Connolly and Bobby Graham
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Made me think of the game (1976 I think) when we lost 3-2 at Motherwell. I’m sure we were winning 2 nil. Pretty grim scenes at the end, with loads of bottles flying around the terrace.
Scullybhoy, I’m guessing you’re younger than the average poster on here😉
scullybhoy on 11th September 2022 3:38 pm
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Sorry, I didnt copy the attachment correctly last time.
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And then did the wrong link again!
Here is the correct one – I hope.
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First goal in both games scored after four minutes by a club captain called Billy 😀
Astonished to see the numbers turning out to see the coffin and pay respects on a motorway.
Just drove from Dunfermline to St Andrews up the motorway and the number of Union Jack festooned death tourists of all ages was incredible. To think that some of these folk, waiting hours for a glimpse of a hearse, actually probably hold down normal jobs is weird.
It felt like a Monty python sketch.
ziggydoc1 on 11th September 2022 3:45 pm
!!BADA BING!! on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:32 PM
George Connolly and Bobby Graham
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Made me think of the game (1976 I think) when we lost 3-2 at Motherwell. I’m sure we were winning 2 nil. Pretty grim scenes at the end, with loads of bottles flying around the terrace.
Scullybhoy, I’m guessing you’re younger than the average poster on here😉
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I am younger than I look. My wife and daughters cannot understand the love of Celtic – they think it is a sign of immaturity but it keeps me young at heart.
Queen still in Edinburgh on Tuesday.Not enough police to cover both.
How many police does it take to organize people going in and out of St Giles.Not as if their will be trouble.
Oh wait.The quintessential British followers of Der Hun,might be on grief patrol dishing out punishment to non shirt renders,and sobbers.The Police will need to be on hand to help them,
Dish out the punishment.
Jinkyredstar on 11th September 2022 3:49 pm
First goal in both games scored after four minutes by a club captain called Billy 😀
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Very creative answer. I actually meant to link these 2 games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnyYUt5pg2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDPlK2qpEw
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1937 Cup Winners
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Highest attendences?
Good afternoon all from Grant’s Bar. Stuck here cos Leggy wants to watch the Queens cortege taking a bodyswerve around Bo’ness. Which most dead people do.
TURKEYBHOY on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:56 PM
The concern will be a terrorist attack.
BURNLEY78 on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:49 PM
Is it any less rational than watching football?
September 11,is a date in the terrorist calendar, even before 9/11
Check oot this nut!
https://www.tiktok.com/@specialmilitaryopz/video/7141682070035713285?_r=1&_t=8Vaf0VhB1Gf&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7141682070035713285
Ernie
“Is it any less rational than watching football?”
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Patently- yes!
With football – you don’t know the score in advance- there is a competitive element.
When you watch.a hearse you know that Death is the winner already- she is not coming back.
!!Bada Bing!! on 11th September 2022 4:08 pm
Highest attendences?
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Brilliant.
Right, I’m logging off now as I see Mind Control Police has arrived.
WeeFlounce CSC
SCULLYBHOY on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:59 PM
world record crowds.
Hotsmoked jinkyredstar
Wee question..
Re Celtic end.
From my time going at the Celtic end
As it rose to go to the back rafters
There was a 10 foot flat section
Then the rise to the back would continue.
It was a flat section,we used to call it the rise.
As in meet you at the rise,left of 5 or whatever number.
When it got busy,games v deidyins real Madrid European games stowed
V Hearts Aberdeen you would know Att:21,000 would be a wee porky lol
Did you have a name of ‘bit’ you stood at ?
Just asking as back in my das day going to see Celtic was a way of relaying messages to someone,to maybe go home,bad news etc
HH
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:25 PM
It’s 22 people kicking a bag of air around a field. There’s nothing objectively rational about watching it. But people enjoy it, find meaning and a sense of community in it, and draw comfort from it. Maybe others feel the same about watching a funeral cortege for a head of state. Not my cup of tea but each to their own.