That was a throwback to how they were shown on the large wooden scoreboard that stood at the top of the terracing over the corner flag downhill.
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The Pink evening news
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Everyone at Easter Road beating on the wooden benches to make some noise.
“Peeenis”.
I remember all the boys in the class getting pulled up for copying this and shouting this in the playground in P6 when someone missed a sitter.
The old club shop under the main stand. There never seemed to be anyone employed to work in it, it was just whoever was passing at the time. It was better than the one they opened on Easter Road though, I remember buying tickets from that one and there wasn’t enough room for people coming in to get passed the people coming out. It was carnage :greengrin. The only things they had on sale was the strip and the much coveted tracksuit.
Robbo Robbo where’s your wife?
She’s getting snagged by a Hibby.
I seem to remember bars of McCowans Highland Toffee and lots of empty packets of No6, Capstan and Woodbine.
My uncle used to have a newsagents not too far from the ground. Whenever Rangers came the place would be inundated with (Rangers) weirdos wanting to buy pen knives. Actually I remember as a kid a big march coming right past the shop with all these incredibly pompous looking idiots wearing bowler hats. Well warned not to cross the road in front of it or through it.
Who remembers the programme shop used to be in Bothwell Street back in the 70s?
Old North East Corner Scoreboard circa 1950
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Newer South East Corner Scoreboard 1969
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Aberdeen photo reminds me of the old spot-the-ball comp in the Pink.
I won a comp in the Pink when a kid, must have been early 70s, but don't recall exactly what for - don't think it was spot-the-ball - and won a voucher for Ronnie Simpson's sports shop in Rose St. Met the man himself and bought myself a pair of Pele boots.
I remember it well, bought my first pair of Peter Bonetti green gloves in there for 2/6.
Did the shop not become The Rose Street Brewery?
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Jock Stein opening the shop.
The self same John Greig used to have a shop in Bruntsfield Place, which was a gents' outfitters from memory. We used to take great pleasure in opening the shop door on our way home from school and screaming 'Hibees' at him at the top of our voices. It usually riled him up which made it even sweeter.