Strathmore Park, East Region Consolation Cup,1/5/19 Forfar West End Football Club Founded – 1892 Nickname – West End Honours – Tayside Junior Football League 1990/91 Current Division – East Region Superleague North Random Fact – Exactly a week after this I headed to Blairgowrie for another Consolation Cup tie including West End. It finished 4-3 …
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Fitbawbaggery From The Vaults #9 – It’s Friggin Friendly in Oslo
When I was a kid my old boy was forever in Norway. As a teacher at Peterhead Academy he was part of the Peterhead/Ålesund school exchange for near thirty years. The dining room at my folks was a homage to the country with trolls, pictures and other things picked up on his sojourns. To add …
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Fitbawbags Interviews # 1 -Wee Man- Aiming for the Century (Or Five)
Mans best friend is a dog so they say. Well I’ll disagree. The first reason being cats are better, the second being the more important of the two reasons, the person who came up with that line surely didn’t have a fitba mad five year old to accompany them to random towns all over Scotland …
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Fitbawbaggery in Numbers #2 – 181 Grounds (2019/20 End of Season Count, 32 added)
With the season not going quite to plan I failed to reach the milestone set of two hundred by the end of the season. This challenge was on course to be carried out as there were seventeen new grounds knocked on the head due to the bat pandemic which would have taken me to one …
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The Inane Ramblings of a Fitbawbag #6- It’s More Than Just A Game. Much More
Originally Written for The Red Final 139 1/2 Bill Shanklys quote has been getting some amount of airplay in the last few weeks due to the bat flu induced postponements. “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that” said the man from Glenbuck(Supposedly). …
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A Fitbawbags 2019/20 End of Season Review
With the recent conclusions of the Highland League, Lowland League and East and West Region Juniors I suppose I will terminate my first non Dons season at this point also. I did hold out hope of the leagues recommencing but unfortunately I can’t see this coming to fruition. Yes the SPFL hasn’t been shut down …
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The Inane Ramblings of a Fitabwbag # 5 – A Spherical Hole In Life
Here I sit in my living room, Tartan Special in hand, empty sharing size packet of peanuts discarded next to me. Grace Kelly is strutting her stuff on the box in one of her Alfred Hitchcock film appearances. As always, my big sook of a cat is sleeping on my lap. As nights go it …
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A Fitbawbags Guide To Fitba Literature Second Edition
A second 15 crackers from my collection. May come in handy for some during the days stuck in doors avoiding bat flu. As I have said before. I love fitba and a close second favourite hobby is reading. When I can combine the two I am in my element. The hybrid hobby. Ill read anything …
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The Inane Ramblings of a Fitbawbag # 4 -Boats, Thistles and One Set of Goals.
Originally written for The Red Final 139 The badge. A symbol of pride. It stands for honour and territory. It is the reason some people get out of bed. They are the reason behind a million arguments. Some people like them old school, some prefer them modern. Some people favour them easy to draw so …
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Fitbawbaggery From the Vaults #8 – That Day in the Moray Drizzle; Keith 2 v 6 Brora R*****s
Looking at it from 2020 I suppose I was always a subconscious ground botherer. Watching Aberdeen, I managed to nail twenty-seven grounds. I used to love the away days to random places like Station Park in Forfar, Dumbartons Boghead, Alloas Recreation Park and such like. The Highland League brought me five or six from days …
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