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Jonnyboy
06-02-2014, 10:37 PM
:wink:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26077080

Peevemor
06-02-2014, 10:40 PM
Oops! Sounds like another own goal.

Groathillgrump
06-02-2014, 10:55 PM
Oops! Sounds like another own goal.

:tee hee:

You need to be of a certain vintage to get that.

iwasthere1972
06-02-2014, 11:05 PM
Was it against Northern Ireland?

Peevemor
06-02-2014, 11:11 PM
Wales.

iwasthere1972
06-02-2014, 11:13 PM
Wales.

:aok: Seemed to recall that it was a Home International match.

Peevemor
06-02-2014, 11:24 PM
Scotland v Wales at Hampden, 1978. With about a minute to go Scotland lead 1-0. Wales have just missed a penalty and concluded it isn't to be their day - until Willie Donachie gets in on the act.

Scotland keeper Jim Blyth throws the ball out to Donachie, who's standing at the edge of the penalty area. Donachie knocks the ball back to Blyth without looking up, and as a result fails to see that the keeper has moved across to the far side of the area.
The ball goes straight into the empty goal to level the match. (Of course, things went downhill after that - the least said about that summer's World Cup, the better...)


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_talk/2263474.stm

GreenLake
07-02-2014, 12:40 AM
Oops! Sounds like another own goal.

He got whistled every time he touched the ball after that, probably by the huns and diets. Horrible luck for a great player otherwise.

Peevemor
07-02-2014, 07:32 AM
He got whistled every time he touched the ball after that, probably by the huns and diets. Horrible luck for a great player otherwise.

I was only 11 in 1978, so to be honest the OG is all I remember about him.

O'Rourke3
07-02-2014, 09:52 AM
Memorable for Derek Johnstone's screamer of a header. Donnachie's awful pass back and Gordon McQueen colliding with a post denting his leg and our chances in Argentina

hibbill2002
07-02-2014, 10:08 AM
I never knew he was at Newcastle, last I heard of him , he and Phil Babb were managing the Turkish national team.

Billy Whizz
07-02-2014, 10:18 AM
Sad end to a long career

surreyhibbie
07-02-2014, 12:53 PM
He got whistled every time he touched the ball after that, probably by the huns and diets. Horrible luck for a great player otherwise.

Seem to remember before the next Scotland game the fans drowned out the National Anthem by singing his name. The guy was almost in tears.

Fine player in his day.