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I`m seriously considering withdrawing from this website; this thread is making me feel ancient. Players who I watched when they were quite young are now shuffling off this mortal coil with disturbing rapidity.

Thank you Andy, you`ve rescued a valuable source and a scene of sense in a morass of crass nonsense.

I came across the 1st Round draw for this competition of 1st September 1931. Was this a one-off competition or was it regular?

I never thought of wikipedia! Thank you for that.

Celtic played a Swedish goalkeeper in 1925 called Hjulian. Does anyone know anything about him?

That`s great, thank you.

Does anyone have any details of a testimonial match for George Sinclair played between East of Scotland & West of Scotland in 1920?

Here`s a wee article I did for a magazine a few years ago which might be of interest: On 9th March 1912, Clyde beat 3rd Lanark 3-1 at Hampden Park to reach their 2nd Scottish Cup Final and three weeks later Celtic beat Hearts 3-0 at Ibrox Park to join them. So what? you might well ask. Well, it`s mo...

Ah yes, but Celtic have played a few games recently @ Hampden so that would have given THEM an advantage there too. Pity Firs Park has gone because that WOULD have been a neutral venue.

To be completely fair to Celtic fans, I think their semi final vs. Hearts should be played @ Celtic Park. Perhaps the other semi final could be @ Cove Rangers` ground.

So it`s not fair for Celtic fans to travel to Edinburgh(near Tynecastle) but it`d be OK for Jam Tart fans to travel to Glasgow(near Parkhead).

On the subject of few words, Sam Kydd appeared in hundreds of films and thousands of TV programmes and never seemed to have more than a couple of sentences to speak(apart from two TV series); look out for his crumple faced fleeting appearances in films like REACH FOR THE SKY, PASSPORT TO PIMLICO, TH...

I remember the film being on TV years ago. Leslie Banks starred as the inspector. Banks was a major British film star in those days and also starred in a 1942 film called WENT THE DAY WELL? written by Graham Green which had a scene where a group of "invading" Germans herd the villagers into a church...

You`re probably right there Brian. Two chants I remember from my "youth" - LUCKY ARSENAL & ONE NIL TO THE ARSENAL. When I first moved down to London, Arsenal won the double with George Graham and "Scot" Bob Wilson in the side. I worked with a chap who supported Liverpool because he`d been @ univeris...

The British Library Crime Classics series has just reissued Leonard Gribble`s 1939 THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY murder story in paperback @ £8.99. Waterstones has it in their "3 for 2" section. A first edition with dust jacket will set you back about £650.