batman

Indeed ... and who can forget poor ol' Jim Leighton, dropped from the Cup Final replay. He took years to get over that!

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Edward G

Alan Rough has to be the Patron Saint of Scottish goalies.
No doubt Bats can russell up some telling action images of this legendary last man?

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batman

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

orpheum

Any images of Frank Haffey available?

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DB7

At least he was honest. They asked him if he could take any positives from the game and he said 'Yes, that it finished.'

batman

That's what I meant by refreshing .... it was a rare occasion when a manager admitted his team played crap and that it wasn't 'the ref's fault', 'they were too physical', 'we we tired aftwer international duty'.

More power to him .... .

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

batman

The Scotland team prior to the 1967 3-2 win at Wembley ...





I think the 'action' picture is one of the 9 going in, but I am not sure.

Bats

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

orpheum

Thanks Bats.According to Wikipedia the reply should be "Nearly ten past haffey".He went to Oz and ended up as a cabaret singer.There are even web sites devoted to him.

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Harleybloke

Gordon Strachan is great for quotes, he's more than a match for any reporter!

A Journo asked him once for a 'quick word', Gordon came back with something like 'fast, that's a quick word'. There are many, he's a legend!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

Harleybloke

A Scottish boss of mine called him 'Rough & never ready'. The Jocks used to specialise in 'Tragic' - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Peru, The Isle of Wight, ahh, The Good Old Days.....................

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

Edward G

Hilarious nickname, Harley!
Yeah, The great thing about Alan Rough was that he had bags of confidence and even a touch of swagger, with the famous mop of hair, only for the ball to spill out of his hands and roll (with tantalising slow motion) into the net with all the comic tragedy of a circus clown. Mind you, aside from the cruelly overplayed mis-haps he wasn't a bad keeper overall. He had the misfortune to be the man between the pegs in an era of mediocre keepers. Anyway, Scotland's hugely dissappointing 1978 World Cup, in which he featured, will forever be remembered for the magnificent dribbling solo goal scored by Archie Gemmill. The kind of goal schoolboys dream about scoring ....

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Harleybloke

Didn't disappoint me! The Jocks were so cocky about Ali's Tarten Army. If I remember correctly we beat them at Hampden in the Home International and they all kept singing about going to the 'Arr-gen-tyne.'

Well then they got there and lost 3 -zip to Peru who took pot shots from halfway & scored....then came Iran, 1-1 or maybe they even lost...

Anyway, then, there they were there singing about wanting their money back. imagine that! Scotsmen too!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

orpheum

I am surprised that no one,but me has remembered that appropriately named French international keeper,Dominique Dropsy.
Reminds me of the secretary of the railwaymens union Sid Wheel.I am sure that there are many others arent there?

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Steve Crook

People on Gardener's Question Time on Radio 4 have always seem to have had horticulturally related names. Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Bill Sowerbutts, Clay Jones, Anne Swithinbank, Alan Tichmarsh etc.

Steve

Edward G

I remember the Peru game like it was only yesterday (cue the music from the Hovis ad). At the time (and this is not a defence of the Scottish performance) Peru had an athletic striker called Teofilo Cubillas who had a great world cup and drove the whole Peruvian team through the scots in that game. As a sideshow they also had an eccentric keeper, Ramon Quiroga, who could not risk impersonating an outfield player to such an extent that he was booked for a foul near the half way line! Great stuff. The scots' ecstacy at making the finals, having seen England fail to qualify, melted away as their group matches went from disaster to disaster. One of the iconic images of a manager in the throes of agony was the close up of Ally McLeod, looking towards the field through his fingers in despair and bewilderment as the World Cup dream crumbled before teams that should not have been able to touch Scotland on their day. It turned out that he hadn't studied video tapes etc of their opponents, believing instead in the natural superiority of his team. He also featured on a roster of TV adds milking the scots bid for glory, which looked more embarrassing as events unfolded. After the ashes had settled, one outraged fan even insisted that he was now going to take elocution lessons to rid himself of his scottish accent! Despite the cockyness of the scots at the time (understandable given English/Scottish history) I still can't take any pleasure in the way they sub-sided. They have an army of passionate supporters who must be the envy of many more successful teams...

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