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Topic Originator: shellypar
Date: Thu 25 Jul 18:26
Wow, all i can say is wow, dont know if you all have seen but a very big french club is going through financial turmoil, the 6 time ligue 1 champions are to not apply for the proffesional football license and are expected to close their training ground
COYP
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Topic Originator: Alter Ego
Date: Thu 25 Jul 19:03
Bought GeorgeO’Boyle from them and he was a good striker.
Mon the Pars!
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Thu 25 Jul 20:25
The Pars encountered them in a Euro tie back in `69 - got a bit tasty over there, George (Dandy) McLean was not too popular with the locals if memory serves.
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Thu 25 Jul 20:34
We did, yes. Played them in a friendly about then too I think.
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Topic Originator: helensburghpar
Date: Thu 25 Jul 20:57
I went to Bordeaux for the friendly. Long way to see us lose six nil. Strike by air craft controllers so went by ferry and train. The team were in the same train us.
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Topic Originator: Hockeyboy
Date: Thu 25 Jul 21:05
Pretty sure we played them at EEP as well, 0-0 draw and beat them on pens maybe?
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Thu 25 Jul 21:27
🚨 Bordeaux have folded . The club informed the FFF that it was renouncing its professional status, obtained in... 1937.
Player contracts will be terminated and the training center closed, in order to reduce financing needs.
It’s over
Really sad news
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
Post Edited (Thu 25 Jul 21:28)
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Topic Originator: Big T Par
Date: Thu 25 Jul 21:49
That`s a shocker 😕
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Topic Originator: AB Loyal
Date: Thu 25 Jul 21:51
be us next if we`re not careful under current board.
Dreams stay with you
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Topic Originator: Hockeyboy
Date: Thu 25 Jul 21:52
That is really sad 😢
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Fri 26 Jul 07:27
I was lucky enough to be at the 1st leg Fairs Cup match at EEP in 1969, when the Pars ran out convincing 4-0 winners. Bordeaux finished the game with 9 men, and the Pars scored 2 late goals, but I can`t remember the sequence of events.
For the 2nd leg, French newspapers built the game up as Scottish Protestants v French Catholics, and there was a nasty atmosphere inside the stadium. Girondins only managed a 2-0 win, so the Pars were comfortably through, but the home crowd invaded the pitch, and it was every man for himself to reach the safety of the dressing room. All the players made it, with the exception of George `Dandy` McLean, who appeared a few minutes later with blood pouring from his forehead. His teammates looked at him in alarm, but he broke the tension by telling them, "It`s alright lads, it was a can of light ale!" 😃
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: vasco
Date: Fri 26 Jul 09:03
Another club lost to professional football that the Pars defeated in the 1960s, Third Lanark, Rangers.......
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Topic Originator: parsmad68
Date: Fri 26 Jul 09:43
There was a film, if I remember correctly that heavily focussed around Bordeaux in the plot. Cannot remember the film but the crowds in the stadium were massive and it was a big part of the psyche of the people in the town capturing the spirit of the people. Must be a massive shock to them. Quite sad.
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Topic Originator: OorWullie
Date: Fri 26 Jul 09:49
Shame
Post Edited (Fri 26 Jul 09:50)
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Topic Originator: The Boss
Date: Fri 26 Jul 10:04
Quote:
AB Loyal, Thu 25 Jul 21:51
be us next if we`re not careful under current board.
We’re sleep walking into it.
I like black and white (dreaming of black and white)
You like black and white
Run run away
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Topic Originator: Par-timer
Date: Fri 26 Jul 10:36
Terrible news for a great club and city, particularly for staff and creditors as well as for fans. Given the size of Girondins de Bordeaux and the use of the phrase “to allow for necessary restructuring” in the announcement of the plan to file for bankruptcy, surely they are more likely to be a Napoli or a Rangers than a Third Lanark or Rushden and Diamonds, and ultimately return to the upper half of Ligue 1. The main immediate issue is likely to be time, with the new season for National 1 (or more likely for them, the regional National 2, given yesterday’s news) due to start in three weeks’ time. As for comparisons with our own plight, DAFC’s current cautious (but frustrating) reluctance to compete with rivals with a similar (or smaller) potential income stream on wages, squad size etc would seem to make the need for drastic action less likely, although the drop in attendances/prize money etc may even out that equation if the dot.net prophets of doom are proven correct.
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Topic Originator: Tenruh
Date: Fri 26 Jul 11:05
Quote:
vasco, Fri 26 Jul 09:03
Another club lost to professional football that the Pars defeated in the 1960s, Third Lanark, Rangers.......
Airdrieonians ?
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Topic Originator: Pars Athletic
Date: Fri 26 Jul 14:17
Quote:
vasco, Fri 26 Jul 09:03
Another club lost to professional football that the Pars defeated in the 1960s, Third Lanark, Rangers.......
Clydebank
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Topic Originator: vasco
Date: Fri 26 Jul 15:39
^^^^^^^^
Airdrieonians - yep
Clydebank - I don`t think Pars played them that decade
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