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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 int...

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 beca...

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.

Thanks for that; quite a stretch & can they keep it up this time?

OK, we`re only 2 games in but when was the last time the 2 Edinburgh clubs topped the top division?

You`re absolutely correct, the Cystal Palace book is an absolute gem and a snip @ £1.48 from an online second hand bookseller. I`d advise everyone to get a copy. Queen`s Park, of course, made an additional appearance @ the Palace - newspaper headline should have read "QUEEN`S GO TO THE PALACE&q...

Thank you both for the very interesting posts. I`ve sent off to a book website for the book for just over a pound. Queen`s Park played Corinthians seven times @ the Crystal Palace grounds, the first a 2-1 home win on 26th February 1923 and the last a 4-2 Spiders win on 9th April 1932. In all, Queen`...

Can anyone help as to when the Crystal Palace grounds including the football field in Sydenham stopped being used for football? The Crystal Palace itself I know burned down in 1936; my parents lived in New Eltham at the time & watched the sky lit by the flames. I guess that concluded the Sydenha...

Hearty thank you for theseTribacolour! I I have the Dublin attendance as 21,360 so it might be dyslexia kicking in: I have the date as 28/4/1940. Just needed to know Gilmour`s opponents so full team not so important. I`m only too well aware that Gilmour is the last Spiders to tug a blue jersey over ...

Can anyone help with teams, scorers & referee of the Eire XI vs. Scotland match in Dublin in April 1940? Also Queen`s Park`s Jimmy Gilmour played in a Scottish semi professional international(bit of an oxymoron for an amateur) in the 1980s; can anyone help with this game`s details? Thanking you ...