Toepoke Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 3 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Czech keeper certainly helped us that night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 10 hours ago, Toepoke said: Probably. Maybe Austria too, they were considered to be the world's best team back in the 1930s.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderteam I also have them in my top six in 1978. They had a cracking team at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRobRoy Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 I had two Argentina t-shirts. Somewhere I still have a picture of me, taken on the Maid of the Loch on Loch Lomond on the day of the Peru game, proudly wearing the thing. It was the last time I wore it. I can't remember what the other one said, but after its first trip through the washing machine, the Scotland/Argentina stuff peeled away and revealed the t-shirt's original identity; a Union Jack and stuff about the Queen's silver jubilee the year before. You may extract from that what symbolism you will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McTeeko Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Great thread lads! 👍🏼 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 A good watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 (edited) Thought it was excellent - hit exactly the right tone. Loved the bit where we got through against the Netherlands, made it to the final and won it - genuine goosebumps for those few seconds 🤤 Down to Earth with a bump after though... Edited June 6, 2018 by neilser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Just about greetin reliving it again Hope it gives some perspective to those that didnt go through it Wouldnt trade those 2 years for anything though - what a time to be a Scotland fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave78 Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 52 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said: Wouldnt trade those 2 years for anything though - what a time to be a Scotland fan That was my thinking at the end. I was watching all the sad faces and folk greeting, while jealously thinking 'you lucky bastards!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, neilser said: Loved the bit where we got through against the Netherlands, made it to the final and won it - genuine goosebumps for those few seconds 🤤 Down to Earth with a bump after though... Aye that was brilliantly done, right down to the Peter Jones' radio commentary. Who hasn't dreamt that at some point. Great film, I too was welling up at times. I even felt for Lou Macari Oh, and nice to see Jim Todd still drinks in the Foxbar Edited June 6, 2018 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Excellent program. Very well done. Obviously impossible to include everything in such a short program. They missed that penalty, just like Masson did. And we still don't know why big DJ was punished by not getting a game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 12 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Just about greetin reliving it again Hope it gives some perspective to those that didnt go through it Wouldnt trade those 2 years for anything though - what a time to be a Scotland fan Two years of elation for forty years of embarrassment? I appreciate this isn't a popular opinion but I wish it'd never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Radio Scotland were interviewing our Iranian goalscorer Eskandarian this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, aaid said: Two years of elation for forty years of embarrassment? I appreciate this isn't a popular opinion but I wish it'd never happened. Top of the World Ma ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 12 hours ago, Toepoke said: Oh, and nice to see Jim Todd still drinks in the Foxbar Ha, think he's got his own barstool in there! Don't think I've ever been in and he's no been there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Toepoke said: Radio Scotland were interviewing our Iranian goalscorer Eskandarian this morning! Geoff Hurst was getting interviewed on the tele for something last night. That’s the difference No wonder we’re seen as a joke of a nation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Watched it, wasn’t bad. I didn’t think it was as great as some are making out though. Would have liked it to have focused more on the fans story rather than the team. We know what happened with the teams performance, it’s been done to death a thousand times over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 hours ago, aaid said: Two years of elation for forty years of embarrassment? I appreciate this isn't a popular opinion but I wish it'd never happened. Get a grip, it's only a game of fitba. How can you be embarrassed about something you didn't do. It was the players and manager that were shit once they got to Argentina, not you. It was the best time ever to follow Scotland. I would happily go through it all again on the way to Qatar. Probably have to wait until the next one though, before we have any chance of being good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 21 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said: Geoff Hurst was getting interviewed on the tele for something last night. Was it about how he cheated West Germany out of the World Cup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Thought it was one of the best shows on 78 about and glad it did not go full out into Ally bashing that a lot of these shows like to do. Wish there had been more on the guys who got a job on board a ship to make the WC. Wee bit about Iran they missed out on that would have been interesting is there goalkeeper had just been signed by Man United, but deal was scrapped due to the Iranian Revolution. Remember in mid 00's when my work sent to me a job at Johnny Walkers in Killie, was walking into town to get some lunch and walked passed Jim Todd but never recognized him in normal clothes and without his teddy bear 😂 and spent the rest of my lunch break try to figure out how I knew this stranger so well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 6 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said: Would have liked it to have focused more on the fans story rather than the team. We know what happened with the teams performance, it’s been done to death a thousand times over Maybe they only managed to find a few who are still alive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, Orraloon said: Maybe they only managed to find a few who are still alive? Was really surprised Ronnie McDevitt was not there (he went on the 77 tour and to the 78 WC IIRC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catchart Circle Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, wanderer said: Was really surprised Ronnie McDevitt was not there (he went on the 77 tour and to the 78 WC IIRC) Ronnie did get a `thanks to' mention in the closing credits. He must have advised in some capacity - remember he wrote Allys biography Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde1998 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, wanderer said: Wee bit about Iran they missed out on that would have been interesting is there goalkeeper had just been signed by Man United, but deal was scrapped due to the Iranian Revolution. Yeah. It seems that there was no-one at the Iranian FA that could give international clearance to the transfer. Also worth pointing out that Iran had won the Asian Cup three times in a row prior to that tournament, so they weren't quite the total minnows they were made out to be at the time. Albeit that Scotland side should've beaten them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 The way they covered the guy with the Argentine wife was good. I bet he never got to go to another WC just in case he just picked up another (Spanish, Italian, Mexican) burd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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