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sports writing asparagus farmer and Big Dunc chronicler. Glamis. Dundee. Edinburgh. The Scotsman since - eek - 1998.
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St Johnstone in the blue tops and white shorts against Dundee in the, er, blue tops and white shorts
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I've burned my retinas out trying to work out how this is a penalty
PENALTY MISS! Tavernier steps up and blasts the ball well over the bar from the spot 😲
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Dundee secretary Eric Drysdale gave Inverness CT and others his "solemn word" that club submitted a no vote says Scot Gardiner, chief executive of Inverness CT, on
@BBCSportsound
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Forty years ago today. Maradona v everybody else. Photographer: Steve Powell for Sports Illustrated.
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@TheScotsman
report from Bobby Charlton's first-team debut at Dens Park in a friendly v Dundee in April '56.
Dundee 5 Manchester United 1
"Best of United's reserves was Charlton (18), a forward of whom much is expected. He made a promising debut in the first team."
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Doris McLean will attend her first match at Tannadice in nearly two decades at this weekend's Dundee derby. There are several emotional hurdles to overcome but there will be pride as well as tears as her late husband's statue is unveiled on eve of game.
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Not bad. But still not the most goals scored by a British side against German opposition in the European Cup:
@DundeeFC
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@fckoeln_en
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Meanwhile, Albert Kidd with Pat Stanton before Hibs v Dundee
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Good to see Alex MacDonald looking well and back at Tynecastle last night for the launch of John Robertson's new (and superb) autobiography
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Bobby Charlton was right. The Scottish Cup final is incomparable. The SFA shouldn't let TV ruin the magic at fans' expense.
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Scottish football literally being planned around Old Firm...
📝 Scottish Premiership fixtures release: Celtic and Rangers face October wait for Old Firm showdown
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Moldova v Scotland. Classic Eastern European football stadium
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Goalie-turned-postie David Harvey on his beloved Leeds United and leaving Orkney after over quarter of a century of island life...
@LUFC
@Morton_FC
@PartickThistle
@WhitecapsFC
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Pat Stanton to be honoured by both teams at this weekend's Hibs v Celtic clash to mark legend's 75th birthday.
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Raising a glass to this supremely talented man tonight. Still remember being floored on learning news of his death 25 years ago today via Daily Record front page in a newsagent on Morningside Rd back in days before social media was the messenger. Dundee & Auchterhouse's finest
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Alan Gilzean coming home for the last time today. My tribute to a bona fide legend in The Scotsman last week.
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Found this on my phone a few weeks ago. Seems as good a day as any to post it. From five years ago next month
@The_Proclaimers
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Doesn't look so very different but the Dundee teams are just about to kick-off on both sides of the street at 3pm on a Saturday for the first time since the late 1970s.
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“When people ask me if I am retired and I say aye, they’ll ask: ‘what did you do?’ I tell them I was a postman. It’s not a lie, is it?” Interview with former Scotland goalkeeper David Harvey on his beloved Leeds United & leaving Orkney.
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Graeme Payne now, aged 63, at his home just outside Norwich. "Some people would say I was the great white hope, others would say I did not fulfil my potential. But I won things for the team I loved. I did well. I admit I was not consistent. I peaked too soon, I think.”
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Price of trying to avoid a fifth season in Championship due to be laid bare at Dundee United agm on Tuesday; highest ever operating loss (£3.8m) and 133 per cent wage-to-turnover ratio.
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Waited a long, long time to file this....
🗣️ "What a time for Scotland to change the tune. What a time for Scotland to switch the narrative from glorious failure"
📝 How Scotland ended 22 years of pain with monumental win in Serbia |
@alan_pattullo
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They mind o' Gillie - Martin Chivers leads the tributes in Dundee for Alan Gilzean: "Over and above everyone, he was always the King of White Hart Lane. Still is in my mind."
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There we have it. Duncan Ferguson back in domestic Scottish football for the first time since 1994 as manager of
@ICTFC
.
Ambitious move and guaranteed to be compelling. 👏
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Bus driver in Edinburgh as I get on: "Don't worry, I'm a fellow sufferer." Hay fever? Chronic indecision? No, Dundee supporter.
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It might only be for one game, who knows, but he did it. Big Dunc did it.
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Happy 60th birthday to Jim Duffy, best player I have seen in a Dundee shirt. Seen here in his pomp (and in better times for club).
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Final insult for Scottish football fans at this ungodly hour is having to sit through highlights of last night's dull English games before tonight's Scottish Premiership ones...
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Remember this from the time. Ball boy wildly celebrates Dundee goal then swiftly remembers torture chamber Jim McLean had shown them prior to game: "Just in case any o' you wee bastards step out o' line".
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After speed reading Craig Whyte's memoirs, what sticks in the mind is revelation Gordon Smith volunteered to rewrite parts of the Billy Boys to make it more Uefa-friendly - and went for "up to our knees in...media lies".
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Farewell to Bobby Wishart, Scottish title-winner at both
@AberdeenFC
and
@DundeeFC
. We most definitely won't see his like again.
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Quite a moment. Leith's Darren McGregor and Fintry's
@Charlie26Adam
skippering - the latter for the first time - their respective childhood clubs today.
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Another uplifting Big Dunc video, this time from his back garden. Are those the smouldering remains of would-be burglars in the background?
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Boyhood Dundee fan scores last min winner to relegate Dundee United. And they tell me Leicester City's a fairytale.
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This is exceptional - the 'lost' Ravanelli hat-trick for Dundee v Clyde, footage unearthed by the great
@TheDeeArchive
🔙 On This Day 2003 | Dundee beat Clyde 5-2 in the League Cup.
@nnovo1010
equalises for Dundee then Lee Wilkie puts the Dee 2-1 ahead.
Fabrizio Ravanelli is then substituted on in the second half and nets a seven-minute hat-trick.
🔗
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The not-so-reclusive David Harvey on leaving Orkney, his beloved Leeds United, the truth about his pet monkey's so-called suicide, being a postie & supporting Celtic.
@TheScotsman
@ScotsmanSport
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Mini guard of honour from his Aberdeen teammates for Andrew Considine on his 500th appearance
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Latest from Dens: Hearts goalkeeper Zdenek Zlamal has just swung on the bar on the instruction of the away supporters behind him. Fair to say it's looking comfortable for visitors.
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Happy 50th Big Dunc. He wasn't even 40 when I embarked on a book about him, back when he seemed a forgotten man. Now something of a national treasure. Amazing Barlinnie is more than half a lifetime ago for him. At a crossroads now. Not many managerial careers begin after 50...
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James McPake on losing his father & gaining the perspective which meant he missed Dundee's game today to attend the birth of third daughter.
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Gary Harkins on being sent off - from the bench - in his last ever game,
@AndyRit54644344
gratitude, why dark blue suits him best and what's next now he's hung up those magic boots.
@DundeeFC
@PartickThistle
@KilmarnockFC
etc etc
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I spoke to the phenomenal Charlie Adam about still performing at a high level while on cusp of turning 36 and after enduring fresh family trauma. Makes a competitive return to Ibrox tomorrow for first time in 13 years. And good news for Dundee fans re. his contract..
@TheScotsman
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Enjoyed spending time with the students of
@StirlingUniFC
this week before tomorrow's big game v Dundee United.
Part of the research involved coming across pics of the last time they played United. A pre-season friendly in '89...a respectable 2-0 defeat. Recognise anyone?
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Will never forget the thrill of going into Groucho's in its 'Angus Thistle Hotel' era. Big Arab though he was, still agreed to stock my Dundee fanzine. This is a lovely tribute. RIP 'Breeks'.
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Home quarter final v Rangers in Scottish Cup. As anticipated, vast empty spaces in the Dundee stands. Message to (absent) managing director John Nelms could not be clearer.
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Eamonn Bannon on why he stayed at Dundee United too long, playing for Hearts and, for one game only, Hibs and getting up early to cook breakfast for guests at his Edinburgh B & B.
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"Our luck, as fellow players or mere admirers, was that our lives coincided with his." From a perfectly pitched eulogy by
@paddybarclay
today.
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25 years ago tonight, one of the best games ever seen at Dens; pitch invasions, the lot, as recently referenced by
@Charlie26Adam
Always loved
@dmccarthyDR
's stuff...
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Title-winning manager Gary Bowyer was ready to stay on at Dundee but wanted backed. The Dens Park hierarchy preferred a new broom.
Just another extraordinary day at Dundee FC.
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Charlie Adam, who makes his competitive return to Ibrox today after 13 years, on excelling on the pitch amidst fresh family trauma, Rangers regret, kids' Dundee allegiance and contract clause which means another season at his beloved Dens looks likely.
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Trying to put together a few words on Jim McLean is difficult when you know this piece has already been written. It won't be the final word on a football genius, and rightly so, but this, by
@mrneilforsyth
, could easily stand as such.
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A (painful) Hampden reminder to Dundee to get the finger out.
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Just perfect, really. Front cover of today's match programme for Dundee v Dunfermline.
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"In my opinion he was the best player who ever played for Dundee, better than Billy Steel." When someone like Alan Gilzean says that, you need to listen.
20 caps, two World Cups, Doug Cowie was one of the key figures in the Scottish game in the 1950s.
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These are high times for Arbroath and it was good to sit down with the manager once known as "Ricky" Campbell earlier this week: "My stock is now higher than it has ever been," he says. "My brother thinks there is one more big job for me..."
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I'd recognise that Archibald Leitch criss-cross latticework anywhere. Goodison comes to a park in Lima.
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It was the time of Grace Kelly by Taylor Brothers coal and “Tannadeechi” on the network television news...
A farewell to Jim McLean, perhaps the most fascinating figure Scottish football has produced in the last half century.
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probably been done but
What's the coolest an athlete has ever looked in a photo/screenshot?
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Steven Caulker might have been in the Faroes right now. Instead, he's in Casablanca. Here he explains what happened when he phoned Steve Clarke after the Euros. The upshot is he's preparing to make his debut for Sierra Leone v Morocco tomorrow night.
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Fifty years this weekend since last major trophy win. Seven hour round trip. Passion undimmed.
Great free-kick, scrappy finish, fans on the pitch 🤣
What a moment for the travelling Dundee fans in Dingwall!
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Forever first in
@DundeeFC
's greatest-ever team sheet.
A piece about the great and beloved Pat Liney, who has died aged 86.
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New one today: celebrate Dundee going 3-0 up v Dunfermline while driving past the old Scotsman office on North Bridge, hear they've conceded equaliser by time we've parked up outside the Botanics. Christmas lights show fell a bit flat after that.
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Former Dundee United director and Dens Park owner John Bennett has suspended rent on the stadium for the time being. Dundee also pledge to ensure all staff members placed on furlough will receive full pay.
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Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments
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Jim McLean tribute pic from yesterday outside Tannadice. Pleased though not surprised to see a Dundee shirt there.
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Tribute to gentleman Craig Brown, one of Scotland's greatest-ever managers and even though no-one played it down more than him, a Dundee FC Scottish title-winner.
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Uplifting but undeniably poignant night to raise funds for family of Eddie Annand, who reveals his Dundee 5s team: Douglas, Adamczuk, I. Anderson, Boyack & Grady.
Great effort from players of that era, incl. Lee Sharp,now ass. manager across the road. Jocky kept all in order.
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Big year ahead for Dundee FC which could - could - change the face of football in the city forever. Some thoughts.
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Steven Naismith is a fine player who remains central to the hopes of Scotland and Hearts, but his goading of fellow professionals is unbecoming of him.
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Perfectly observed minute's silence for Dundee and Scotland legend Doug Cowie. Born five years after the old Dens Park main stand - which celebrated its centenary in September - was opened.
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A piece with Jock McStay on the fallout from The Headbutt. Excellent pic from Neil Hanna, who was at Ibrox that afternoon 25 years ago today.
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A terribly out of focus "Derry Rumba" from the Dundee players after securing promotion to the Premiership. But you get the drift ...
@TheDeeArchive
@DensParkChoir
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"Behold the raw museum loveliness of Dens Park and the bold handshake of a Pittodrie welcome (and what lout would demolish either?)" Memo to John Nelms and Dave Cormack. This is an Autumn treat from
@d_gray_writer
and
@alanmccredie
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Pity the Rangers fan who happened to like the Pogues. Thirty years on from the 'St Patrick's Day Massacre', when a collision of events led to a lively Sunday in Glasgow's east end. With thanks to Peter Grant,
@spiderstacy
&
@James_Fearnley
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Always seemed to speak very warmly about Scottish football, wrote in his autobiography that "the cup final" meant the Scottish Cup final for someone growing up in the north-East of England and made his Manchester Utd debut at Dens Park of all places.
RIP Sir Bobby
The thoughts of everyone at the Scottish FA are with Sir Bobby’s loved ones at this sad time.
Sir Bobby was a true giant of the game, a player whose skill transcended rivalry.
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Read a few comments re. Steven Gerrard heading straight up tunnel after Hearts defeat. I watched him wait for Daniel Stendel to shake his hand, but he - perhaps understandably - was in full celebration mode with staff. Lack of sportsmanship not something you can throw at Gerrard.
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Clip of
@TheWarOnDrugs
doing "Strange Boat" by "favourite band" The Waterboys at the end of their set at the Hydro in rain lashed Glasgow on Tuesday night.
@WaterboysMusic
@MickPuck
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God bless Gillie, gone three years today. "The original King of White Hart Lane."
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Real shame one season was so Covid-affected but what a privilege to see this man at
@DundeeFC
.
Glad I was at Hibs game for THAT goal - worth season ticket alone.And glad my son's 1st Dundee match coincided with last cameo at Livi. He can always say he saw
@Charlie26Adam
play.
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Bought this the other day. Very interesting. Dave Mackay on the finest Scottish player he's ever seen. "I have never hesitated to say that Duggie Cowie of Dundee and Scotland was the man."
From Soccer My Spur, published in 1961. Cowie died in November, aged 95.
@TheDeeArchive
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AC Milan have visited Scotland on competitive duty eight times before tonight's Europa League clash v Celtic. Two of just three defeats came at Dens Park, this was the second of them...
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I spoke to the remarkable Bob Seith this week - a double title winner with both Burnley and Dundee, the latter success coming 60 years ago today.
As well as this unique claim to fame, I believe he's also the oldest surviving former Hearts manager.
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Livingston 0 Dundee 2
A strange league table. Last time Dundee were top four in the top flight when the clocks went back?
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Rivals to Tommy Coyne and Keith Wright as greatest Dundee strike force of recent times
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“I wake up every morning and I thank Chelsea for taking me away from the west (of Scotland). My children have nothing to do this with this, thankfully." Strong, strong stuff from Steve Clarke.
Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke says west of Scotland is still in dark ages as he is subjected to anti-Catholic abuse during cup tie against Rangers at Ibrox
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Not many testimonials these days, certainly not for players who still look about 18.
I remember Liverpool visiting Dens twice within 15 months in late 80s for George McGeachie and Bobby Geddes. Cammy Kerr every bit as deserving as those stalwarts - & still years ahead of him.
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Charlie Adam's long journey home to Dundee, via glory and unbearable sadness.
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Cristiano Ronaldo the best header - headerer? - of a ball of all time? Give me peace. As a new book about Alan Gilzean reminds us....
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Wow. Could he be the man? Keep wearing the lucky sweatband Dunc.
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Youri Djorkaeff - wearing a St Mirren top - at St Mirren v Aberdeen to watch his son Oan, who's on the bench.
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Where is Scotland's only A-Listed football grandstand? It's in Galashiels not Govan - and it's under threat.
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