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Invitation
Hi fellow Arabs.
I'd like to invite you all (some of you I know in non-digital life, others I don't, but ALL are welcome) to the launch of the latest title in the ever-growing Black & White Era library, at Waterstones, Dundee, on Wednesday November 6th, 5.30pm.
It is titled It's A Team Game: Scottish Football Club Line-Ups In The Black & White Era and has several pix of old United teams, the Viking invasion of the 1960s, the McLean conveyor belt of talent — among hundreds of other pix.
I'll blether a bit, and the now-retired (but still worth hearing) Tam Duthie will blether a bit. If you want to devalue your copy of the book, I'll sign it!
It would be good to say hello.
Cheers.
- blackandtangerine
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Re: Invitation
Steve Finan wrote:
Hi fellow Arabs.
I'd like to invite you all (some of you I know in non-digital life, others I don't, but ALL are welcome) to the launch of the latest title in the ever-growing Black & White Era library, at Waterstones, Dundee, on Wednesday November 6th, 5.30pm.
It is titled It's A Team Game: Scottish Football Club Line-Ups In The Black & White Era and has several pix of old United teams, the Viking invasion of the 1960s, the McLean conveyor belt of talent — among hundreds of other pix.
I'll blether a bit, and the now-retired (but still worth hearing) Tam Duthie will blether a bit. If you want to devalue your copy of the book, I'll sign it!
It would be good to say hello.
Cheers.
You were doing well there until you said Tam Duthie will be there.
- smedDUm
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Think you'll find B&T that it's not exclusively a DU publication, it's ecumenical & on that basis in the name of fairness there has to be a Blue Nose as well as an Arab. I assume similar invitations are appearing on their forums too. Hope there's no fechtin'! Segregation at Waterstones?
- blackandtangerine
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Think you'll find B&T that it's not exclusively a DU publication, it's ecumenical & on that basis in the name of fairness there has to be a Blue Nose as well as an Arab. I assume similar invitations are appearing on their forums too. Hope there's no fechtin'! Segregation at Waterstones?
I gathered that but I'd rather watch a box set of Bake Off than listen to duthie speak his usual pish.
- Steve Finan
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Re: Invitation
Naw, invite is only here, guys. I think, as the author of Arabs Away, DFC supporters would probably (and understandably) tell me to F off! Although it is a book for people interested in football nostalgia across the country and has line-ups from all teams.
There will be an article on the book in the matchday programme tonight.
Cheers all.
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I'll be interested in seeing the various club photographs, but unfortunately won't be able to attend to hear the speakers (although that might be 'luckily' rather than 'unfortunately'). The collection, does it cover all Scottish club sides of an era?
Will look out for the book.
- Steve Finan
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At the risk of this looking like me doing a spot of "advertising" here (you'll have seen through this ruse, comrades)......the book covers the great and often not-so-great teams of the past. It is aimed at old football blokes (like me) who remember when the game was harder, muddier and better. It is 200+ team line-ups from (mostly) the past 60 years — every club used to invite the press in at the start of the season to take pix of the assembled-on-benches players. It fascinated me to be looking through these pix, finding Henry Hall as a kid at Stirling Albion in 1967, or Stuart Beedie as a lad in the 1978 Montrose team. So I gathered all the interesting ones — John Lambie at St Johnstone, Jim Baxter at Raith Rovers (you know the sort of stuff) and show the pix, while using them to talk about an aspect of Scottish football. Like daft silky strips (St Johnstone 1956) or the old-fashioned heavy boots and shin guards (Forfar 1952) and put all that in the context of the team, rather than the individual. Any player who ever walked on to a pitch did it as part of a team, though we often celebrate them as individuals.
Basically, it is the same thing I used to do when I was a kid. I'd read the teams in The Sporting Post and wonder if this John Lambie bloke at St Johnstone was good, or if Allan McGraw at Morton was really as deadly a goalscorer as he was made out to be.
Sorry, this is rambling on a bit....it's a book that shows old teams. It is nostalgia. And though I say so myself, a much better Christmas present for yer dad than his usual woolly jumper from Markies!
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