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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sat 14 Jun 10:30
Hello!
On behalf of a group of email Pars friends, and the nod fae the gaffer (Brian), there will be new stories on the .net homepage under the Fans Stories tab.
If you want to add to them please email me at buffy2daisyj@gmail.com
I’m up first - be gentle - and you can find it here:
https://www.dafc.net/story.php?t=Five_Favourite_Pars_Matches&ID=4107
admin edit:
the link to the list of stories is https://dafc.net/news.php?c=Fans+Stories
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sat 14 Jun 11:53
Quote:
buffy, Sat 14 Jun 10:30
Hello!
On behalf of a group of email Pars friends, and the nod fae the gaffer (Brian), there will be new stories on the .net homepage under the Fans Stories tab.
If you want to add to them please email me at buffy2daisyj@gmail.com.
I’m up first - be gentle - and you can find it here:
https://www.dafc.net/story.php?t=Five_Favourite_Pars_Matches&ID=4107
An excellent read, Buffy - you`re a very talented bairn and a hard act to follow. 😁
Eta, I'll wait until the quality of the contributions drops off a tad, before cobbling something together. 😊
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: brian
Date: Sun 15 Jun 13:05
think you`ve lost your original story ?
did you add as a new story ?
I think we need to look at the way it is presented from the menu options.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sun 15 Jun 13:21
Back by popular demand !
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 18 Jun 14:58
buffy you have a dot after com which makes your email invalid
Great stories and memories .. great work again
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Wed 18 Jun 15:33
I don’t have a dot after com. It’s just the way it’s been added on to the forum as part of a sentence - I.e. a full stop.
My email is buffy2daisyj@gmail.com
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: brian
Date: Wed 18 Jun 16:08
the link to the list of stories is
https://dafc.net/news.php?c=Fans+Stories
I`ve removed the other links that were there and move to the Category LINKS
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Wed 18 Jun 16:31
Actually dinnae bother with my previous post. It looks fine as it is.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: DunPar
Date: Wed 18 Jun 17:10
DAFC 2 Celtic 1 (87)
DAFC 3 Hibs 3 (87)
DAFC 3 Falkirk 0 (88?)
Celtic 0 DAFC 1(88?)
DAFC 5 StMirren 1 (88?)
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Topic Originator: Wotsit
Date: Wed 18 Jun 17:28
My favourite Pars` match is a draw with Meadowbrook Thistle.
As Archie McPherson said in the match highlights after John Watson equalised:
"That goal has brought something akin to the relief of Mafeking to this crowd here at East End Park"
We secured the title (over Falkirk) and I got to stand in the Cowden end for the only time in my life. Oh, and it was free entry!
The enemy travels by private jet, not by dinghy.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 18 Jun 18:36
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 18 Jun 18:38
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Topic Originator: bigdonnie
Date: Wed 18 Jun 18:40
my favourite pars matches are just before xmas 1985 pars on unbeaten run on way to div 2 title playing away at berwick in mild december ht 4-1 down both teams man sent off in 2nd half scored 3 times and hit bar in last minute another one was our promotion in 1979 after 1-1 draw with falkirk 0-1 down and rolland scored penalty equaliser after falkirk player punched ball over bar amazingly 6000 for div 2 game and sunday before had 5000 for berwick game at east end great memories
donald mcneil
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Topic Originator: FA1968
Date: Wed 18 Jun 19:07
I was just going to list both these games as well bigdonnie, great days
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Topic Originator: FA1968
Date: Wed 18 Jun 19:09
Norrie was superb in the 2nd half at Berwick when he moved into midfield from memory
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Topic Originator: Jock Par36
Date: Wed 18 Jun 21:12
As one of the older Pars Fans it has to
be Dunfermline 2 Everton 0 in the Inter
Fair Cities cup. We lost 1-0 at Goodison
but beat an all star Everton team, who went
on to win the English league that same season.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Thu 19 Jun 10:56
Loving your stories on here too, peeps.
Two more tales added to the Fans Stories Tab
“Hawthorn Happiness” and “68: A Good Year”.
Enjoy
https://www.dafc.net/news.php?c=Fans Stories
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: wjmcm
Date: Fri 20 Jun 02:09
Amazing Buffy. Before I read your favourites I had already decided mine.
Mackin, Laird and Mackie, Samuel, Duthie and Chalmers, McKinlay, O`Brien, Dickson, Reilly and Anderson. What a game!
Thanks for bringing back that memory. George Duthie never thumped a penalty. All were carefully placed just inside the post.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 20 Jun 06:58
😊
Our very own GG’s offerings now on the tab.
Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 20 Jun 07:16
This one made me giggle
Memories of April, 1961
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sat 21 Jun 06:58
Quote:
buffy, Fri 20 Jun 23:24
Another for you all to enjoy.
1949/50 League Cup Final v East Fife
A very enjoyable read. Thanks JD. You must be in the frame for our longest serving Pars fan. 🙂
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Sat 21 Jun 08:04
GG did well to reference that 2-1 home win over Livingston back in August 2002. Though it hardly compares in terms of stature with his other selections, it was a game that stands out to me too. I had come back from Australia for a holiday and caught up with some mates at the East Port pre-match. We couldn`t believe the football we were watching. The standard at that time under Jimmy Calderwood was a revelation.
He also mentions the 5-4 game, which none of us of that generation will ever forget. And, I would add our 2-0 Scottish Cup 1st round win at Parkhead a couple of years later. The stuff that dreams were made of.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sat 21 Jun 08:24
Quote:
OzPar, Sat 21 Jun 08:04
GG did well to reference that 2-1 home win over Livingston back in August 2002. Though it hardly compares in terms of stature with his other selections, it was a game that stands out to me too. I had come back from Australia for a holiday and caught up with some mates at the East Port pre-match. We couldn`t believe the football we were watching. The standard at that time under Jimmy Calderwood was a revelation.
He also mentions the 5-4 game, which none of us of that generation will ever forget. And, I would add our 2-0 Scottish Cup 1st round win at Parkhead a couple of years later. The stuff that dreams were made of.
I didn`t mention our 2-0 3rd round victory over Celtic because I deliberately missed that game to my eternal shame. 😒 I decided we had no chance and didn`t fancy going through to watch us getting a tanking, so I went to watch the Blue Brazil instead. I think they beat top flight St Mirren 1-0 that day.
When the stadium announcer read out the score from Parkhead at full time, I felt happy and sick at the same time.
Eta. Livi had been going well the previous season and had qualified for Europe, if memory serves. Wiping the floor with them with a performance we hadn't seen since the 60s was brilliant.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sat 21 Jun 11:51
Hi folks, that’s the last of the email group memories in the Fans Stories tab on the home page. 16, in total, I think.
I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading them.
It’s been an absolute pleasure to have been involved in this project.
Feel free to keep adding to this thread and perhaps in time Brian can move it to the Sticky Forum for permanent use.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sat 28 Jun 08:45
I was in Cairneyhill with a friend yesterday and I pointed out the house of the late, great Alex Edwards. He asked me what my abiding memory of our greatest ever player was. Without hesitation, I replied "His last minute, SC winner v Kilmarnock at EEP."
I can`t believe I left that game out of list of Favourite Pars Matches. It had all the excitement you`d expect from a cup tie between two of the top teams in the country. Both teams had finished well clear of Rangers and Celtic the previous season. Killie were champions on goal average from Hearts and the Pars had finished a point behind in 3rd.
Killie took the lead just before halftime through Jackie McInally in an end to end game. After the break, the Pars laid siege to the visitors` goal, and it seemed we would never score, courtesy of some fine saves by Bobby Ferguson and some desperate defending by his teammates. Bertie Paton finally equalised with some 15 mins left and then when it looked like Killie had achieved their aim of taking the tie to a Rugby Park replay, Alex Smith played Edwards in as he made a diagonal run across the Kilmarnock penalty area, took it round a defender and then the goalkeeper, before rolling it into the net. Absolutely wonderful.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sat 28 Jun 09:21
Remember the Killie game as it was getting rather tasty in the North Stand (pre cage)
Just as Edwards scored I was hit on the head by a coin/stone, causing a wound that bled profusely!
Never been the same since!🤕😵💫
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 28 Jun 16:41
GG - you`ve been on too many Aperol Spritz.........Alex Edwards did a quick 1-2 "wall pass" with Shug Robertson on the halfway line to beat Killie`s offside trap allowing him to run in on Bobby Ferguson and slot away that late winner.... with a desparing Killie defender just too late to get there.
Then Mickey wheeled away and ran down the length of the main stand whooping up like he scored the cup final winning goal !!!
At least that`s how I mind it - or is nostalgia not what it used to be ?
Struggling to post image - sorted !!!
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sat 28 Jun 16:52
Re, Alex Edwards, this is the sort of thread I used to love- usually Sammer would appear, and would provide a fantastic description of what actually happened.
I wonder what happened to Sammer, he used to be one of my favourite posters, but just disappeared suddenly. I really hope nothing bad happened to him in Putin`s Russia. I had noticed a change in his writing, he had occasionally been critical of Putin, but that changed towards the end and he was very much toeing the party line, which is understandable
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sat 28 Jun 16:53
He’s fine; just taking a break from the forum.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sat 28 Jun 17:24
Quote:
buffy, Sat 28 Jun 16:53
He’s fine; just taking a break from the forum.
That`s great, I was a bit worried but I`m pleased he is okay. Cheers Buffy
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sat 28 Jun 17:42
Quote:
veteraneastender, Sat 28 Jun 16:41
GG - you`ve been on too many Aperol Spritz.........Alex Edwards did a quick 1-2 "wall pass" with Shug Robertson on the halfway line to beat Killie`s offside trap allowing him to run in on Bobby Ferguson and slot away that late winner.... with a desparing Killie defender just too late to get there.
Then Mickey wheeled away and ran down the length of the main stand whooping up like he scored the cup final winning goal !!!
At least that`s how I mind it - or is nostalgia not what it used to be ?
Struggling to post image - sorted !!!
VEE, thanks for that. I was sure wee Shuggy played Mickey in, but just to be doubly sure, I googled the game and came up with a report from the Pars archive site on COWS. Naturally, I assumed the author of that report had a better memory than a man of my advancingyears..... 🙄
Was Alex Smith even playing in that game? Had he not reluctantly agreed to join Rangers for a then record fee between two Scottish clubs? £51k.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: coventrypar
Date: Sat 28 Jun 18:04
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sat 28 Jun 18:21
Good to know it`s now your favourite Pars` match!
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 28 Jun 19:21
GG - Smithy went to Ibrox at the end of that season I`m thinking.
Maybe, as you suggest, not that he wants to recall that career move - he played in the debacle at Berwick then the ECWC final defeat, both 1967 - and was in Rangers player squad when they blew the league title on the last day of season 1967-68.......had he stayed at EEP he would likely have picked up his second cup winners medal that Saturday.
I was at Aberdeen when he accidentally broke his leg playing for the Dons against the Pars - it was heard all over Pittodrie, a sickening sound.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sun 29 Jun 06:38
Quote:
veteraneastender, Sat 28 Jun 19:21
GG - Smithy went to Ibrox at the end of that season I`m thinking.
Maybe, as you suggest, not that he wants to recall that career move - he played in the debacle at Berwick then the ECWC final defeat, both 1967 - and was in Rangers player squad when they blew the league title on the last day of season 1967-68.......had he stayed at EEP he would likely have picked up his second cup winners medal that Saturday.
I was at Aberdeen when he accidentally broke his leg playing for the Dons against the Pars - it was heard all over Pittodrie, a sickening sound.
VEE - Smithy was my boyhood hero, a status cemented when he gave me 2/- for a 6d copy of the Evening Citizen and told me to keep the change.😁 As an adult, I made the occasional visit to the Coaledge Tavern and he always offered me the first pint "on the house." I would have to insist on paying, reminding him that that was no way to run a successful business. 🙄
He had nothing against Rangers, but was quite settled and happy playing for his local team, but the Pars Chairman, (Leonard Jack?) told him he`d have to go as he`d accepted the offer and the Pars needed the money to balance the books. As you will know, the club paid their players decent money back then, but crowds were generally poor and at least one top player was sold every season. I think Sir Fergie followed Smith to Ibrox a year later for a new record fee, even though he was nothing like as good a footballer.
Eta. Alex told me he was sent off for the only time in his career in his very last competitive game - a reserve match for Aberdeen - for swearing loudly at himself in frustration. 😂 The ref thought it was directed at him.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sun 29 Jun 10:23
Alex Smith was outstanding in the semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle!
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Mon 30 Jun 16:57
GG, your recollections of Alex Smith being sold to Rangers is on the money (no pun intended) - the Pars were a selling club back then. Wasn`t it Cammy Fraser`s transfer fee that funded the then new stand ?
I`ve often wondered why Sir Fergie wasn`t enticed back to EEP when he was dumped by Rangers, rather than going to Falkirk ?
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sun 13 Jul 09:54
Our private e-mail group which produced this memories thread (now accessible at .net Fans Stories, with some earlier ones) thought that we had completed our portfolio of Pars memories, but we offer one more, a comical account of two young Pars fans hitch-hiking their way to watch the infamous battle of Bordeaux in 1969, a memorable match in the history of Dunfermline Athletic. We hope you enjoy the read as much as so many of you have appreciated the previous memories posted!
The Battle of Bordeaux
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: WarringtonPar
Date: Sun 13 Jul 11:11
Quote:
buffy, Sun 13 Jul 09:54
Our private e-mail group which produced this memories thread (now accessible at .net Fans Stories, with some earlier ones) thought that we had completed our portfolio of Pars memories, but we offer one more, a comical account of two young Pars fans hitch-hiking their way to watch the infamous battle of Bordeaux in 1969, a memorable match in the history of Dunfermline Athletic. We hope you enjoy the read as much as so many of you have appreciated the previous memories posted!
The Battle of Bordeaux
Great story, quite an adventure. I have to say I wasn’t surprised by George Farms reaction, he really was an ignorant individual.
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sun 13 Jul 11:56
What a great story the trip to Bordeaux was. I`ll need to read some more of these.
The managers reaction was pretty shocking, doubt Jock Stein would have reacted the same way, wouldn`t get away with that these days
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sun 13 Jul 16:50
An added bonus 😀
A Late PS on George McLean from Sammer’s Portfolio of Anecdotes:
The wider Big Dandy was a prototype for the sybaritic striker Frank McAvennie later caricatured in the TV show `Only an Excuse.` He wasn`t short of a corner boy wisecrack either.
At half time in the Bernabeu, Rangers are well on their way to a 6-0 hammering by Puskas, di Stefano and co.
Manager Symon: “What`s the problem George? Is it the pitch?”
Dandy: “Naw, the bit I`m stauning on is fine”.
And later at Dundee.
Manager Ancell: “George, if you scored half the chances you make for yourself you could be a top international player.”
Dandy: “I widnae be playin fxxxxxg here then, wid ah?”
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sun 13 Jul 18:28
The Bordeaux travelogue was very readable - the comment about George Farm`s reaction to meeting those two far travelled fans especially.
When I did my referee course back in the Middle Ages the weekly training was held at Brockville, it involved all within Stirling and Clacks, from rookie sprogs like me up to the few top grade big league officials.
I was late one evening into the dressing room and two of the latter group were in a corner discussing GF - in very undiplomatic terms.
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