Skyline Drifter wrote:Tried to buy it directly but the rel8 website wouldn't accept my Mastercard for some reason so bought it through Amazon instead. If it's as good as David's review suggests an extra £2.80 of postage will be well worth it. Will await my copy in anticipation.
Copy arrived within 24 hours. Excellent service indeed!
As others have said excellent reference book for all levels of the game. Everything you had from the old much missed Scottish Football League Review Books and so much more. Superb research.
I've only leafed through it really so far but a few minor corrections I noticed for completeness:
On page 18 it says with respect to Squad numbering that it was mandatory in the Premiership and optional in the other divisions. Not quite accurate. It's mandatory by rules in the top two divisions (Premiership & Championship) although the Championship clubs were given a one year dispensation to ignore it after some clubs pointed out they'd already bought their kit before the rule came in and not budgeted for extra. In the end only Queen of the South and Alloa Athletic didn't use squad numbering but several of the others used numbering but didn't put names on the shirts. It wasn't allowed in the bottom two divisions at all, not an option.
Not quite sure why Alloa appear to have mysteriously been stripped of their "Athletic" suffix?
In Queen of the South's final league game at Cowdenbeath our 96th minute equaliser is wrongly credited to Danny Carmichael, as it was in most media sources that weekend. The club website correctly attributed it to Bob McHugh. Carmichael was 40 yards away from it so I'm fairly bemused as to why the reporters convinced themselves he scored it.
Also young Dean Smith made our bench for the first time in the 2nd leg of the playoff match with Falkirk. However, it's been presumed to be Aidan Smith (no relation) and credit for the unused sub listing given to the wrong player.
I post these only to bring them to your attention for your own records Andy. Please don't take them as a criticism, it's really not meant as such. It's a fantastic collation of data and errors are inevitable, especially where most of the media reported it wrongly also (Carmichael's non-existent goal). Well done.