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The third week, and already your genial host is starting to take the piss with his match selections...


West Brom v Birmingham

... it's from this point on that things start to go a little weird ...

East Fife v Cowdenbeath
Queens Park v Albion
Stenhousemuir v East Stirling
Montrose v Arbroath


All selections to be in by 12noon on Saturday, 27th August

I'm in early this week - I'm on an ITIL training course Monday - Wednesday, then I'm in for an angiogram on Thursday.

West Brom 1 v 2 Birmingham - Forsell
East Fife 1 v 2 Cowdenbeath - Gribben
Queens Park 1 v 1 Albion - Bradford
Stenhousemuir 2 v 0 East Stirling - McGrillen
Montrose 1 v 1 Arbroath - Smart

West Brom 1-0 Birmingham (Horsfield)
East Fife 1-3 Cowdenbeath (Liam Buchanan)
Queens Park 3-1 Albion (Weatherston)
Stenhousemuir 4-1 East Stirling (McAlpine)
Montrose 2-2 Arbroath (Brazil)

Waht's weird about Scottish football.

Darn I have to show I know my stuff this week.

You know what I really think's in Scottish football? The idea of Queen's Park playing home games at Hampden in front of less than 500 people. How strange must that be? I'd love to see it one day, especially as they let students in for £2.

If anyone would like a little more info about the Scottish lower divisions in general and Montrose in particular, there's a very funny and entertaining blog here: http://gableendies.blogspot.com/ . It's great fun just working out which teams he's talking about.

Been there done that for the 2nd Round of the CIS cup. Thing is we then went back to Hampden for the final and we managed to dig up another 6900 or so fans. Amazing!

You had cadavers as supporters????

Still, must have whipped Old Trafford for atmosphere.

Was it more or less spooky with nearly 7000 dead people in the stadium?

West Brom v Birmingham City --> 1:1 (Forsell)
East Fife v. Cowdenbeath --> 2:1 (Paliczka)
Queens Park v. Albion Rovers --> 1:2 (Houston)
Stenhousemuir v. East stirling --> 2:0 (Henderson)
Montrose v. Arbroath 0:0


Whom do you support if you live in West Stirling?

Stirling Albion! East Stirling's full name (as some of my colleagues who do the Sport graphics for News 24 sometimes forget) is East Stirlingshire, and their ground is in Falkirk...

I've actually been to a Queen's Park game at Hampden- they played out a terdious goalless draw with Cowdenbeath, the only bright point of which was Brian Gilfillan's ridiculous attempt to score for Cowden from his own half- an effort which ended up in a large empty stanmd approximately behind the corner flag.

The attendnace was 550, approximately 1% of the capacity- there were only two turnstiles and one block of seats open.

Thing is, the SFA have no right to stop Queen's playing at Hampden. because the thing is, Queen's actually own the ground, the SFA are their tenants. So the only fully amateur side left in the Scottish league own the national stadium. Now *that's* weird!

i have a pic at home of old hampden park where it's clear that it's queen's park's stadium, but can't find that one online. still feast your eyes on this! dantesque!

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSe01250

Clyde beat Celtic huh? I wonder if that's been repeated since...

West Brom v Birmingham 1-2(HORSEFIELD)



East Fife v Cowdenbeath 1-3(GRIBBEN)
Queens Park v Albion 2-3(STIRLING)
Stenhousemuir v East Stirling 2-1(McGRILLEN)
Montrose v Arbroath 2-2(HENSLEE)


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Clyde and Celtic head-to-head:

http://www.soccerbase.com/head2.sd?team2id=582&team1id=512

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Not a bogey team are they

I particularly like the results from the 71/72 season.

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West Brom 0 Birmingham 0
East Fife 2 Cowdenbeath 2 Smart
Queens Park 2 Albion 2 Young
Stenhousmuir 3 East Stirling 0 McAlpine
Montrose 2 Arbroath 0 Davidson

SBE - About to start his annual freefall down the table!!

West Brom v Birmingham (1-1) Ellington
East Fife v Cowdenbeath (1-2) Mauchlin
Queens Park v Albion (2-1) McGinty
Stenhousemuir v East Stirling 2-1 Carrol
Montrose v Arbroath 1-1 McCulloch

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West Brom 2-0 Birmingham (Kanu)
East Fife 0-3 Cowdenbeath (Gribben)
Queens Park 1-1 Albion (Stirling) [A Scottish football in-joke, possibly]
Stenhousemuir 4-1 East Stirling (McGrillen)
Montrose 0-1 Arbroath (Brazil)

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