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DuncanEwart

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  1. I've been looking forward to this game all week. The Cup's done now but we still have a lot to play for. Let's get ourselves as far up this league as we can.
  2. He later had a furniture removal business called "Prytz Flitz". I thank you.
  3. I particularly remember a game at Rugby Park v QOS, earlier in the same season as the East Fife game people have already mentioned (what a player Paul Hunter was for them back then btw). A 2-0 defeat and everyone was gathered outside the front doors afterwards. It all became a bit of a popularity contest as the players came out, some being cheered (Alan Robertson) and others being roundly abused. Most were just glad to get out and away, except for John McVeigh who basically asked all and sundry to come ahead. Maniac.
  4. Be interested to hear what you make of "Mayflies". I liked some of it and was not so impressed with other bits.
  5. Steven McCloy, a bit part player in the first season back in the premier league under TB. Peter McCloy's boy.
  6. And Keith Martin, whose close friendship with Andrew O'Hagan inspired "Mayflies". John Niven himself pops up in Stuart Braithwaite's "Spaceships Over Glasgow", another book I can highly recommend.
  7. Thanks for that @TrueBlue. Good to know. Good on him.
  8. I remember Andy Brown, Scott Johnson and Andy Kerr @McDicken'sLeftPeg. I was at the game v Partick Thistle when Andy Brown broke his leg. The coldest I've ever been at Rugby Park. Absolutely freezing. I've heard before that he was highly rated as he was coming through to senior football. Scott and Andy were both Bourtreehill men and I'm sure they went on to play Junior.
  9. You are a year late with that news mate.
  10. I never knew that @chubbs. Cheers. I take it he never had a career in senior football?
  11. Aye, he had some legs on him. Did we not get him in a swap deal that saw Robert "Zico" Clark go to Motherwell?
  12. I think he had a relatively successful spell at Shrewsbury after he left us, I seem to remember them having an FA cup run that season under John Bond.
  13. He had a bit of a rocket shot. And quite a tan.
  14. Haha, I've never heard before that he and Eddie Morrison were workmates and that was how he ended up in goals @skygod. Thanks for that. We got beat that day 1-0 I remember, but the way things were going then it probably wouldn't have mattered who was in goals.
  15. I remember he was listed as "Newman" that day, as was the way then when playing triallists.
  16. I have no idea why I have always remembered the name Neil Candlish, a young striker on loan from Motherwell in the mid eighties, because his (short) spell with us was totally forgettable. But I have.
  17. I remember Pelosi had quite the reputation but the only thing I remember him for was scoring the last goal in a 4-2 win at Muirton v St Johnstone, in a game Killie were leading 3-2 at half time. Mike Cormack scored that day, don't know if anyone else remembers him?
  18. He was their kit man later on though, wasn't he?
  19. John Sludden on his worst day was still a thousand times a better player than Peter Curran would ever be. He is, for me, still one of the finest players I have seen playing with his back to goal. He had a great first touch and exquisite control and was an adroit finisher, though not as prolific with us as he had been earlier in his career, I don't think. If he had pace he would have played at a higher level, I have no doubt about that. May he rest in peace,
  20. He worked for "The Daily Mirror", in an era when tabloids were not the comics they are today, and that newspaper had a "mission to explain" and made films for ITV that were available for all to view. A colossus of journalism.
  21. I did not realise this was a book. I wanted to go and see the film, but Mrs Ewart felt the running time was too long and she had heard people had walked out as it was "too slow". Think I will get the book now and wait for the film to hit Sky Cinema. Thanks @Bonbon19.
  22. Aye, it is a great read. Like you, it's the 82 team I remember him from. Such an elegant player- but what a character!! The whole socialist, the team above everything, ethos he believed in was fascinating to read about.
  23. Is the biography of Socrates called "Doctor Socrates" by Andrew Downie, @Trumpetree?
  24. Lee Johnson out at Fleetwood- replaced by Charlie Adam.
  25. Also The Big Man. But I really don't blame you for leaving it out......
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