CB Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Meadowbank 1 Killie 8 (EIGHT) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWWWnnnnnn! Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 What a night, thought we were dreaming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardinalSpin Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 What a brilliant night that was, what I remember of it. What a hangover next day 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdaw Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Guy updating the scoreboardand talking over the tanoy was funny. Anyone know what minutes the goals were scored, I think we had 5 after 20 mins....But it was a long time ago...LOL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouser2 Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Was one of those memorable away trips for various strange reasons , and the game itself was very enjoyable too! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Posted April 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 54 minutes ago, Bigdaw said: Guy updating the scoreboardand talking over the tanoy was funny. Anyone know what minutes the goals were scored, I think we had 5 after 20 mins....But it was a long time ago...LOL I've heard talk that it was facts about the goals. 'Last time we lost 6' etc. Is it true he said 'we've never lost 9' and he got booed? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllyAsylum Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Brilliant night, was there with my dad. Steepest stand in the world, felt every time I jumped up when we scored I was going to fall! Even got the "I was there" t-shirt the club made after. Also special mention to the home fans chanting "give us a goal" and then "we want 2!" ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs1 Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Ah, Meadowbank. There was also the time we were not allowed in the main (only) stand as there was a cat show on and we were all on the wooden seating around the other side. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundonald_Killie Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 One of the few games I missed that season. Not sure how we managed it, but did get a VHS copy of the full 90 minutes to watch a week or so later. Remember a pal giving the house a phone early into the game, then "watching the game" on Ceefax !! Was at Meadowbank plenty of other times, including the famous cat show game and the day when a drunken Killie fan louped the fence at halftime and proceeded to do the long jump. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 (edited) The eighth goal was scored by Burns in the 89th minute, accordinhg to the video. Geddes, Montgomerie, Spence, McStay, Flexney (Burgess), Stark (Brayshaw), T Smith, Jenkins, Williamson, Campbell, Burns Edited April 10, 2021 by skygod 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 I was working in England and I had to phone up some Killie telephone line to get score updates. Couldn't believe what I was hearing and had a big telephone bill by the end of it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuttersBar Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Calum Campbell has done well for himself!!!!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killie alan Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 1 hour ago, cs1 said: Ah, Meadowbank. There was also the time we were not allowed in the main (only) stand as there was a cat show on and we were all on the wooden seating around the other side. And it was bloody freezing that day!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikastar Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Now I feel even older since the reminder of that result. I was staying over at the Royal George Hotel in Perth that night in prep for a work meeting. Met Davy Hay who was staying there too for some reason. But the score line was the most memorable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetfitter Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 A small knot of Meadowbank fans singing ‘We want 2’ after they had scored. Singing Alan Lawrence is a horses @rse when he was sat about 10 yards away. Ah the memories. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lions13 Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 (edited) Worked late that night, only about an hour, and wasn't going to go. Walking along Queens Drive my mate stopped his car and told me to jump in. Glad I did. I'd seen us get gubbed 8-1 by Rangers at Rugby Park. It was nice to see us win 8-1. Edited April 10, 2021 by Lions13 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, carpetfitter said: Singing Alan Lawrence is a horses @rse when he was sat about 10 yards away. “Nipper” Lawrence, so called after the name of his favourite punk band The Nipple Erectors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKX16 Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Fantastic night of football. I remember phoning my mate and asking if he was going to the game which he replied I can't be bothered. I bring it up now and again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetfitter Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 19 minutes ago, skygod said: “Nipper” Lawrence, so called after the name of his favourite punk band The Nipple Erectors. Didn’t know that. I think Shane Magowan was in that band. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killieboyd Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 2 hours ago, AllyAsylum said: Brilliant night, was there with my dad. Steepest stand in the world, felt every time I jumped up when we scored I was going to fall! Even got the "I was there" t-shirt the club made after. Also special mention to the home fans chanting "give us a goal" and then "we want 2!" ? I still have that t shirt somewhere 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Posted April 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 Just now, Killieboyd said: I still have that t shirt somewhere Dig it out, put it on, take a photie of you eating a pie with it on, and post it to twitter. Brownings'll gie a prize. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanus Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 To say it was unexpected is to do it a real disservice. There was nothing really at stake for either side, in either direction, as regards the league table. There was no indication whatsoever that we had it in us. We weren’t prolific scorers (no, really!) and had won only two of our previous five games, including a loss to Airdrie and a draw with Forfar. Meadowbank weren’t particularly bad either. What unfolded though was just incredible-Trevor Smith scored a goal. If I hadn’t been there myself I’d have assumed teletext had made a mistake. 7-1 up a few minutes into the second half, Killie fans even began to relax, only slightly mind, and all of the season’s preceding mediocrity dissipated into the still night Edinburgh air. Hitherto furrowed brows and grim faces, weary from the seemingly never ending dashed hopes and crushed spirits, suddenly sprouted laughter lines. The petty, inter-fan, terracing squabbles that were so often a feature of watching Killie in the 80s and into the 90s ( you think an online forum is bad??) morphed into genuine warmth amid a collective giddiness and a growing sense that the relatively small number who were there, were indeed witnessing something truly spectacular in our time supporting the club. (Remember, this is long, long after the league win in 65, and although only a few years away from a future Scottish Cup win, that wasn’t even a remote possibility on our horizon). It really was an unforgettable night. Incidentally, I got married a couple of months later ( after the season finished, of course). Following the meal, I nervously got to my feet. After the traditional thanks and toasts were duly dispensed with , I said to the assembled guests “I suspect many of you probably think that Killie’s recent 8-1 win over Meadowbank is the happiest day of my life. Well, let me assure you, today runs it a very close second!” If you look closely enough, even 30 years later, you can still see the puncture marks where a sterling silver fork was thrust at high speed and no little force into my left thigh. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killieboyd Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 42 minutes ago, CB said: Dig it out, put it on, take a photie of you eating a pie with it on, and post it to twitter. Brownings'll gie a prize. I will have a look! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riccarton Bluebell Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 I’ve still got the T shirt made after that game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanus Posted April 11, 2021 Report Share Posted April 11, 2021 21 hours ago, skygod said: “Nipper” Lawrence, so called after the name of his favourite punk band The Nipple Erectors. I don’t think that’s actually the case. I occasionally shared a post match pint or two with Peter Smith of the brilliantly named Airdrie fanzine, ‘Only the Lonely’. According to Peter, he got his name from Nipper Lawrence, a character in the Tiger and Scorcher comic, who was a talented footballer, drawn with that scruffy, undernourished look that suggested a “challenging” background (Exactly the sort of character which would no doubt attract some sort of Twitter campaign about class stereotyping nowadays) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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