MySpazz Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 One of my abiding memories was going down to the ground when it was half demolished, and recovering the "Players and Officials" entrance sign (was huge!), carried it all the way back to north muirton. It was in a shed in Crammond PLace when the floods hit NM - so that was the the end of the sign.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupy76 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) been too young to understand but sang "crawford baptie's wifes a whore". .Also the name plate that was gold plated at the players entrance used to get grubby with finger prints,for some reason i could not walk past it without polishing it with my sleeve Edited October 11, 2009 by soupy76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepless Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 walking round the terracing at half time so we were always standing behind the goal into which Saints scored. And not being able to do it when the Old Firm turned up and the crowd was segregated by putting up a couple of rickety barriers. Invading the pitch on the last game of the 75/76 season when we were relegated (0-0 hearts, I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
208saint Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Being last out of Muirton Park after the last game with Mr CJB then when we decided to leave, Bruce refusing to let us out of the players entrance and having to climb out Being possibly the last man to score at Muirton Park in the same game that Erchie kept the last clean sheet. Taking a penalty at half time in a competition for local boys team in front of a "huge" crowd watching Saints v Raith (3rd and 4th in the league I think) and missing. Segregation under the covered terracing to keep the rival fans apart except in the bogs! Riot against Motherwell (I think) when they wrecked the minutes silence for Willie Ormond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjb Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Being the last man to hit the bar at muirton..... I have team photo of that day will find it and upload it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
208saint Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Mrs 208 trying to join in with the last theme says she must have been the last person to bang their heid on the dug oot roof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginger Bakers rebel army Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Loads of lasting mamories ,here are a few: The smell of the terracing , close your eyes ,imagine you are in the enclosure ,listen to the muirton roar , take 3 deep breaths through your nose ,feel the atmosphere and remember how it had it's own distinct smell . It's still there in my nostrils today,braw. One of my earliest memories is Saints beating Rangers in the 60's. I was in the ice rink end with my father who lifted me aloft when we scored . I was a saintees addict from a very early age. I also remember taking young John Bonham to his first game in his blue and white buggy . He was also addicted at a very young age and still and always will be a saintees junkie. One of the funniest memories is a ball hitting one of the macaroon bar sellers and his macaroon bars and wrigly spearment gum going all over the running track. All the kids used to stand down the front , I remember when I became tall enough to see over the advertising barriers . Collecting empty fanta and coke bottles. Jock Simons size 12 boots. Jimmy Wallace Being crushed leaving the ground ,particularly going down the steps to Florence place. Police horses in Florence place on big match days. No mans land. Hearts playing Montrose in an evening cup replay and being in the saints choir that turned up that day. No surprise to say we were singing saintees songs but also joined Montrose fans against Hearts. The wee door under the stand into the bar at half time , seggregation barriers eventually put an end to that. My favourite game was probably the 3-3 scottish cup game against Rangers.What a day. Stray dogs. Singing "it's a long way to the buses ,it's a long way to run" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Wallace Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I remember being involved in a group of Academy pupils who accompanied Billy Nicol and his chums from Hillside Hospital to Muirton. Billy and co were all in wheelchairs and we had to stand with them to the left of the away dug out. Honestly, some of the language from football managers then was appalling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotpages Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Being the last man to hit the bar at muirton..... I have team photo of that day will find it and upload it. Was this at the Sunday Boys' League Cup Final? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiguelSimao Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I remember once, during a Mains o' Muckhart Shield game against East Wank, wee Donald McGusset farted on a policeman's helmet behind the old enclosure and Soapy Twatt threw an old bobbin with "Dundee be damned" written on it at a trolley bus conductor. Chaos in them days, it was... Etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Wallace Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 I remember once, during a Mains o' Muckhart Shield game against East Wank, wee Donald McGusset farted on a policeman's helmet behind the old enclosure and Soapy Twatt threw an old bobbin with "Dundee be damned" written on it at a trolley bus conductor. Chaos in them days, it was... Etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Ziggy Stardust Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Miguel, are you trying to take the piss out of the often rose-tinted view of the Muirton days? Cos if you are the Young Mental Pack will do ye ya bass. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickardo Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 John Connolly warming up before a match and smashing a young chap right in the dish with the ball knocking him off the barrier he was sitting on behind the town end goal.Chipmunk crisps ,weird flavoured tubes of sweets,and who can forget the baw going in the ice cream van. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erchie Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 micky lawson hit me square in the dish with a ball and broke my glasses ! lets all do the pack boys dance na na na na na na ! USED TO LOVE THE DUNDEE GAMES AT MUIRTON ! STEVE MASKREYS GOAL AGAIST RAITH ROV the ball in the ice cream van v dumbaton my shut out and gerrys wonder strike aaah the fond memories ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby kemp Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 the smell in the air of pipe tobaco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burghsaintee Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 That was my dad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver_blue Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Beating Celtic 2 - 0 in a midweek league cup tie in 1981. A super Ally goal nutmegging Roy Aitken on the line then a Jimmy Morton penalty. What made it special was travelling through to Perth on the Greenock Celtic bus. One smiley face on the way hame ! Funnily enough I was back the next Saturday and saw what was the best game I'd been at till the 3 -1 Airdrie at Mc D in 1990. This bizzarely was a 3 - 2 defeat from St Mirren, Billy Stark and all. Amazing game which culminated with us getting a corner when their centre half palmed the ball over the bar in the last minute. Also saw super Ally's last Saints goal ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
208saint Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Funnily enough I was back the next Saturday and saw what was the best game I'd been at till the 3 -1 Airdrie at Mc D in 1990. This bizzarely was a 3 - 2 defeat from St Mirren, Billy Stark and all. Amazing game which culminated with us getting a corner when their centre half palmed the ball over the bar in the last minute. Also saw super Ally's last Saints goal ! Could have sworn Jackie Copland punched it down on the line not palmed it over, but whatever the fecker done I mind it well too. Great game right enough. Beat Hibs as well in that group and think we would have progressed to the next round if we had beaten Fakes in that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
208saint Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Mind a young laddie got the ball right in the coupon when it was kicked out by a player in a pre-season friendly. Cue tears and snotters for about five minutes. Next game same laddie standing in about the same spot and a ball is again kicked into the crowd, but this time the laddie is a wee bit smarter and turns round so it can't hit him in the pus again. Unfortunately for him fate was smarter and the ball hit one of the terracing steps "kerbie"style and bounced back and (yep you guessed it!!!!!!!!!) hit him smack in the face again. Yet more tears and snotters Absolute scream for everybody (except him obviously). Think I seen him at the snooker with a crash helmet on recently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver_blue Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Could have sworn Jackie Copland punched it down on the line not palmed it over, but whatever the fecker done I mind it well too. You may be right. It was a while ago though, I still had a fringe ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE REBEL SAINT Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Taking my oldest lad to his first saints game!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertam Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 In the 1985 - 86 season the Police deployment at Muirton Park was usually one Sergeant and 2 Cops. The Sergeant stood at the tunnel and one cop went to the Ice Rink end and the other to the Florence Place end. They used to walk to Muirton Park, up the Dunkeld Road from Barrack Street, and walk back down with the " crowd" at the end of the match. I seem to remember somewhere near to where the RBS is now, there was a bakery or something similar and at 4.45 they used to sell pies, from a table placed outside their door, to the crowd heading back into the city centre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUZZ Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 fighting v ayr at last game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjb Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 In the 1985 - 86 season the Police deployment at Muirton Park was usually one Sergeant and 2 Cops. The Sergeant stood at the tunnel and one cop went to the Ice Rink end and the other to the Florence Place end. They used to walk to Muirton Park, up the Dunkeld Road from Barrack Street, and walk back down with the " crowd" at the end of the match. I seem to remember somewhere near to where the RBS is now, there was a bakery or something similar and at 4.45 they used to sell pies, from a table placed outside their door, to the crowd heading back into the city centre Crawfords................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUZZ Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Taking my oldest lad to his first saints game!!! :) 21 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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