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| 21. Author: cheshire par Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 19:24 Lived in Headwell Road and could hear the crowd from there. My mum used to take us to the youth games in the 80's. Left Dunfermline when I was 9 and this made me support them even more. Reply |
| 22. Author: DulochConvert Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 19:31 Only moved to Dunfermline 4 years ago, brought up supporting Celtic but have always watched live matches wherever I have lived. Thought with my boy 6 years old at the time best bring him up supporting the local team. Now it's in his blood, we visited 14 grounds last season and his ambition is to captain Scotland and the Pars at the same time. Reply |
| 23. Author: gordi-b Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 19:37 I was practically brought up at E.E.P. my dad was groundsman in the Jock Stein era and i used to spend my summer holidays up there, most of the cup winning team were there and i used to have a lot of fun and got a few backside kicks , a lot of my mates left to support the usual suspects , but i will always be a Par C.O.Y.P G.B Post Edited (Thu 08 Jun 20:02) Reply |
| 24. Author: SeasonedPar Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 21:15 Good thread, some nice stories there. The Schools Engagement Programme for the season has just finished. A total of 126 school visits, reaching 2,864 local primary, secondary schools and pupil support centres. Schools are already booking up for next season. All run by volunteers. Update at the Supporter's Council last month. On top of free season tickets to under 12's, bringing the young fans closer to all the players and the club and hopefully develop fans for the present and future. More details on COWS, Plans to re-vamp these pages in hand... I started with the Pars in the late 1960's. What an era. Scottish Cup win, European nights, regular wins against all Scots teams, plus some fantastic players. Spoiled for great games and great EEP nights. Post Edited (Thu 08 Jun 21:17) Reply |
| 25. Author: pargelly Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 21:42 When I was at primary school everyone supported celtic ,when it was the Lisbon lyon's ect ,then after going to st'columbas ,me and another boy decided to go to a few pars games ,that was that ,I did manage to see the likes of ernie mcgarr john lunn and even leish play at the time , think it was late 70s ,remember going to watch the team train ,George miller was manager and had his big red setter type dog on the park too ,but it all didn't end too well for us as a jam sandwich came round and lifted us and put us in the cells ,thought we were going to break into cabin ,not bad for 30 mins after leaving school . Reply |
| 26. Author: sammer Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 22:05 I was Par before I went inside EEP. On many a 1960s Sunday I made the traditional Scottish hike up to my gran's house for dinner (after Sunday School in these observant days.) Then as evening fell and the women retired to wash the dishes, the men gathered round the coal fire, pushed in the 'damper' and raked over the previous day's events at EEP. Names like Connachan, Melrose and Dickson were bandied about, salt and pepper pots, ashtrays, were moved across the card table to explain tactics, and mutterings about the dangers of Joe Baker or Ralph Brand made eyebrows furrow. The next Saturday's starting line up was argued about, written down on notepads, and when I joined in with my puerile observations, I was ocassionally indulged. Then the women returned and the spell was broken, but during these magic moments I felt like some young Red Indian brave listening to the wisdom of ageing warriors, committed to that tribe called The Pars. Reply |
| 27. Author: sonofpetrie Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 22:08 "Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV | Date: Thu 8 Jun 14:53 I was brought up as a blue nose. All my dads side were rangers fans. My cousin even bought himself a Rangers kit with the money he got from his first communion. I was at Ibrox shortly after souness took over at Govan. All around the ground were 50,000 so called football fans singing about a battle that happened in a different country 300 years before. At that exact moment I decided I wouldn't set foot in that $h!t hole again. Around the same time my youngest sister was dating a pars fan from lochgelly. After going to a couple of games at EEP I was hooked. Been a pars fan ever since, season ticket holder for last 20 years. " Is the wee sister in question a cheeky so and so called Evelyn by any chance? ;-) "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" Reply |
| 28. Author: londonparsfan Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 22:53 Pretty simple for me. I moved around a lot growing up and tried to watch my local team wherever I went. When I moved back to Scotland, it was us I went to see. Reply |
| 29. Author: Mon-pa Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 23:26 Just loving these stories! ARTY Reply |
| 30. Author: helensburghpar Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 23:48 Granddad was a home and away Pars fan as was my Dad. Both used to take me when I was young and I was a regular at away games by the time I was 12. Growing up in Wellwood at the time most of the people I hung around with were all Dunfermline fans. My brother goes home and away and my daughter, despite living in Glasgow goes to a few games. Reply |
| 31. Author: Big T Par Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 23:51 My old man is from Dunfermline and a life long Par, and took me to see The Pars when I was a lad. I come from Tranent and the amount of abuse and ridicule I used to get at school, from Hibbys and Jambos, was unreal. But I stuck to my black and white guns and ignored the bawbags. Reply |
| 32. Author: saltonsgonagetu Date: Thu 8th Jun 2017. 23:55 Incredible stories , inspiring ,heart wrenching,there is a book in this ,please  Reply |
| 33. Author: Johan_Cruyff Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 07:09 My dad took me to my first game the 5-1 Kozma vs St Mirren game and I thought i'd just seen the best team and player in the world, ever..... I had the bug. My dad took me to every game he could at EEP and when I was 14 he got me a season ticket with my mates and I abandoned the old man for 90mins so I could stand at the cage. Saturday's were always footie day for me and him, game in the morning for me then off to McD's for lunch, the Millers for his pre-match pint and then the walk through the transy to EEP for the game. I dont think I ever really can convey to him how grateful I am for those times... I know he was disappointed when I started playing Saturday afternoons and stopped going to EEP as much  Reply |
| 34. Author: GG Riva Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 09:20 What a great thread for the close season. Some excellent posts , great reading and I agree there could be a good book in there. I'm beginning to think Sammer should write it. He has a similar style to a Hugh McIlvanney, or a Bob Crampsey. Heartening to hear the OP say that meeting two Pars legends, was fundamental to him becoming a Par, something the Schools Engagement team very much believe in, as SP highlights further up. For my part, my family were not into football, so I went to my first game with a family friend in 1963 A 4-0 win over St Johnstone and I was hooked. I'm a bit jealous of JC above, have to admit his first game topped mine by some distance, even if it seemed great at the time.  Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 35. Author: mach1 Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 09:47 Being a young lad in Inverkeithing, I saw the usual Saturday departure of fan buses at least one each for Celtic or Rangers. There were even two gangs of Teddy Boys, who became known as the blue jackets and the green jackets, because of their dress apparel. I was determined not to fall into that trap and though my old man was a Hearts fan and I knew a few contemporaries who crossed the Forth to see them, I did not want to do that either. Fortuitously, Jock Stein took over at East End, saved the Pars from relegation and won the Scottish Cup the following year. The decision was made and what a near decade that turned out to be. Since then I have always followed the Pars and while their form and achievements rarely again reached the heights of back then, there have been memorable moments as well. I like to think my liking for the Pars has rubbed off on a daughter and a grandson, with the grandson and one of his friends being season ticket holders for years now as well. Roll on future generations. Reply |
| 36. Author: Rigger Al Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 10:37 mach1, Fri 9 Jun 09:47 How long you been n Inverkeithing Mach1 Reply |
| 37. Author: AlfieAA Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 10:50 Wow. Some really great stories on here, and i've really enjoyed reading them. I think it's superb that there are so many different reasons why people began to support our great club. Once played pool with Norrie McCathie in the players lounge. Reply |
| 38. Author: mach1 Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 11:38 I'm not in Inverkeithing now RA, in fact I moved when I was 21. I still make the odd nostalgic trip to see the old stomping ground and still have some relatives who live there, or whisper it lol, Rosyth. It's changed a lot like most places, Wards shipbreaking yard gone (still a scrapyard), Caldwell's paper mill gone, a couple of pubs and the ex-servicemens' club gone. Of course the Dockyard is greatly reduced and the base at Donibristle now Dalgety Bay is long gone, so a lot of the old atmosphere has changed. I try to go most years for the Llamas Fair weekend and for the highland games day in August. Often to meet up with my sister and her hubby amonst others. Reply |
| 39. Author: Rigger Al Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 12:57 mach1, Fri 9 Jun 11:38 Im born and Bred in Inverkeithing staying across from the papermill .Hamilton Terrace . Reply |
| 40. Author: buffy Date: Fri 9th Jun 2017. 13:26 Mither washed the strips Faither collected the gate money Brother once sat on Billy McNeill's knee Born with B&W blood - West Fife Hospital November 9th 1968 - I was next in line for the mighty Paaaaars 🤗 Reply |
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