Went to the Ayr/Lochee game last night

1st half - two terrible teams showing how not to play football, but Ayr took their goal well.

2nd half - Lochee were dead on their feet and Ayr took advantage, their no 8 was sent off for persistent fouling which was fair enough (he'd been booked for clattering the Ayr player on the bye line in the first half). Their no 6 should have gone for a tackle very similar to the one John Terry was sent off for last night. Ayr pressed home their advantage and got sloppy allowing Lochee to get a goal back.

The striker Gormley is the worst striker I've ever seen at this level, Adam Coakley has been trumped by this talentless pleb.

Clyde 2-2 St. Johnstone last month.

Peterborough v wycombe last season.

I know his dad hes terrible at 5 a sides, but sings the praises of his son lol

edit to add answer: Man Utd vs Blackburn Nov 07

In the UK, Man United v Celtic at Old Trafford in the Champions league in October this year.

In general, I went to Kildare County v Mervue United two weeks ago in the play off to stay in the LOI - and saw us beaten 3-0 and relegated completely from the League Of Ireland.

TonInDublin

I think it was Arsenal v Chelsea.

Celtic vs. Villarreal a few weeks ago.

Rangers vs. Lyon in the CL last season.

4 Armoured Div Army Cup Final


Royal Logistics 1 Argylls 4

Att = 3400

Clyde v Airdrie play off final.

What a crowd.

Ghost, not being funny here, but for events like this in the military do you wear your civvies and can you have a pie during the game and a beer afterwards?

Grenoble 2 vs Lorient 0

Wisnae very good.

Aberdeen v Skunks last month.

f*** knows.

Largs v Kilbirnie I think.

Not counting juniors it'd probably be Feyenoord and Den Haag.

Man City - Arsenal a few weeks back. 3-0 to city. Good day out, not that long in the car, easy to get tickets, easy parking at the ground.
Will be working in leeds at the start of february, planning on going to Leeds v Millwall on the monday night.

I'd watch my back at that game after last season.

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Even better!!! I might sit in the millwall end for the banter.

I was in civvies, alot were in uniform. Nae drink but pies,coffee,tea etc etc are available. Was at the Army stadium in Aldershot 2 years ago mate.


meant to add, this is when alot of the scouts from teams in League 2 and below come along.

I studied a few years ago with a guy who was in the Royal Navy and played with their team in the 1980s and he showed me a programme for a game he was playing in, which a few players from that game went on to play at a senior level including Guy Whittingham, who played with Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday.

Lou Macari signed Gary Holt and Justin Whittle for Celtic from the military in the early 1990s, however neither played with Celtic because Macari got punted shortly afterwards. Holt signed for his hometown team, Kilmarnock, where in 1997 he won the Scottish Cup before going on to play with Norwich City and Nottingham Forest; whilst Whittle joined Macari at Stoke City before having successful spells at Hull City and Grimsby Town.

Theres probably loads more players that ended up in the senior game via the military, this could make a decent thread in itself, do you know of any others?

Scottish Cup final 1987

Everton v Villa last season, finished 2-2.

Everton v West Ham tail end of last season.

Holt was terrible, but ended up getting capped ten times for Scotland... well done Craig Brown, another success!

Useless trivia: He was a chef in the Army.

There was a guy in the Queens Own Highlanders who went on to play for some team in the English League 2 although im stuck for his name.

David Cameron from our mob ( Argylls ) went pro. He trained with Raith Rovers although never played for them. We were in the Army Cup final 2 years on the trot back in 96 and 97 at Aldershot but were unlucky to be beaten twice on penalties. St Mirren scouts were down at it and David was offered a trial with them then went on to sign on the line for them also. He then went on to Brighton then sustained an injury. He played for a couple of other league teams before ending up at Rhyl FC in Wales where he became a prominent scorer. He now manages a team in the Unibond League Div 1 ( Bradford Park Avenue )

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You just have to look at Plymouth Argyle to see where they get their name from. As you say, there will be loads more down south that we dont hear of.

He played well enough to merit his chance at the time.

Gary Holt was one of those guys that have grafted their way into the Scotland squad rather than some who think it is their god-given right to get capped for their country, eg. Dominic Matteo.

And he only won 6 caps.

Yes, and whenever he was in the press announcing his retirement from his international football career, Jim McLean wrote in his column that he didn't even realise it had started.

Can't remember the last game, probably a Largs Thistle game, I used to watch the Port on occasion at Woodhall, I went to their last ever match there.

ps Ravenscraig Stadium just doesnt do it for me, I hate that wee claustrophobic stand and stadiums with running tracks, reminds me of how dire it was when we used to have to go to Meadowbank.

He was actually an Engineer, his double up job was a Chef

Interesting wee piece of trivia:

The Army have won the FA Cup before in the past.

Royal Engineers beat Old Etonians 2-0 in 1874/5 season.

Just had to double check and see, cos I think I missed most of it as well. Apparently "Matteo's absence [against Nigeria] will be a blow to Berti Vogts"

slightly off topic but...

since morton have a free week on next week

are any of the members of the board thinkin about going to another match
like any of the scottish cup games ?

thinking about going to watch Queens park v peterhead

Probably go to Stirling/Raith or the junior version of Hibs/Hearts (Leith Athletic v Tynecastle)

going to bologna milan this month

anyone else been to a serie a game?

is it hard to get tickets etc?

Actually f*** that, Villa v WBA is on.

this was also my last non morton/scotland game I went to.
2nd time I have seen Ayr this season - that was the better display !!!
reasonable crowd though, 1000 more than they have been averaging and the visiting support larger than anything they will get in 2nd div
went to tesco after the game - and came out to see a Lochee bus parked up having just received the brick to window treatment that the Ton busses got to often before they started leaving Ayr on other routes.

Ghost, think I have said before but my Uncle was in the KOSB a number of years ago and played for the army team, he was pals with John McMaster so he arranged a couple of matches with Morton during his time and said it was a great game- my Uncle was a pretty decent keeper and was offered trials by Stranraer following a friendly game with them one night but like yourself he was in the Army for a career.

On topic, it was the final Greenock Juniors got into a couple of years ago, this Saturday me and thebewilderedbeast and millartime are going to head to the Petershill v Bellshill game, TBB cousin is a Petershill fan (think he's on the committee too) and since we're at a lost.

It was a Pollok pre-season friendly, only coz my brother was playing and its 5 mins up the road from my flat. Apart from juniors, last one i think was the Threave Vs Raith Scottish Cup tie last season. Reason for that is that my mate plays for Threave.

what is his name?

know a player for them too

I watched Birmingham City - Sunderland at the start of last season. Finished 2-2 with Gary O'Connor scoring a last minute equaliser.

What for Threave? His name is Scott Gault (usually plays left back or wing). He played against us in pre-season in centre mid though and was terrorised by big Eric Portaloo

Sheffield Utd v Norwich yesterday

Was the "next big thing" Arturo Lupoli still as over-rated as ever?

Not doing too well for non Morton games this season. Only games I've made so far were Valur Ladies v Stjarnan Ladies, which saw Valur clinch the title. Followed the next week by Aris v Panathinaikos - best atmosphere I've ever experienced at a normal league game, Greek football is great

Aston Villa - West Brom yesterday.

The Greek games sound interesting ocean floor - were the fans in the stadium hours before kick off? I'd love to go abroad for a Serie A game and to the Bombonera. Think that would be immense.

The Aris ultras were in the ground when we arrived (around 90 mins before kick off) but the entire Panathinaikos support were escorted into the ground by armed police 20 mins before the game started.

It puts into perspective all the overblown tripe you hear about the Old Firm game and their two tribes.
Looks awesome (as John Maisano wold say) in the pics!

I was thinking about going to the Ayr v Killie cup tie but when I saw the weather I decided not to drive. Instead I went to Dunterlie to see Arthurlie beat Neilston.
Last game before that, that did not include Morton was the Rangers v Hamilton game the day the Partick game was called off. Junior wanted to go to Ibrox so against my better judgement we went there. Mind you we saw 8 goals so that wasn't bad. Unfortunately 7 of the goals were for the Gers

Polonia Warszawa v Gornik Zabrze, before the winter break. Next game due up is against legia on 28 February. Trying to convince eldest that he'd rather watch it on telly. There were 781 arrests at the last fixture between the two.