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| 21. Author: wjmcm Date: Fri 20th Jun 2025. 02:09 Amazing Buffy. Before I read your favourites I had already decided mine. Mackin, Laird and Mackie, Samuel, Duthie and Chalmers, McKinlay, O`Brien, Dickson, Reilly and Anderson. What a game! Thanks for bringing back that memory. George Duthie never thumped a penalty. All were carefully placed just inside the post. Reply |
| 22. Author: buffy Date: Fri 20th Jun 2025. 06:58 😊 Our very own GG’s offerings now on the tab. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Post Edited (Fri 20 Jun 06:59) Reply |
| 23. Author: buffy Date: Fri 20th Jun 2025. 07:16 This one made me giggle ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply |
| 24. Author: buffy Date: Fri 20th Jun 2025. 23:24 Another for you all to enjoy. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Post Edited (Fri 20 Jun 23:25) Reply |
| 25. Author: GG Riva Date: Sat 21st Jun 2025. 06:58 buffy, Fri 20 Jun 23:24 A very enjoyable read. Thanks JD. You must be in the frame for our longest serving Pars fan. 🙂  Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 26. Author: OzPar Date: Sat 21st Jun 2025. 08:04 GG did well to reference that 2-1 home win over Livingston back in August 2002. Though it hardly compares in terms of stature with his other selections, it was a game that stands out to me too. I had come back from Australia for a holiday and caught up with some mates at the East Port pre-match. We couldn`t believe the football we were watching. The standard at that time under Jimmy Calderwood was a revelation. He also mentions the 5-4 game, which none of us of that generation will ever forget. And, I would add our 2-0 Scottish Cup 1st round win at Parkhead a couple of years later. The stuff that dreams were made of. Post Edited (Sat 21 Jun 08:08) Reply |
| 27. Author: GG Riva Date: Sat 21st Jun 2025. 08:24 OzPar, Sat 21 Jun 08:04 I didn`t mention our 2-0 3rd round victory over Celtic because I deliberately missed that game to my eternal shame. 😒 I decided we had no chance and didn`t fancy going through to watch us getting a tanking, so I went to watch the Blue Brazil instead. I think they beat top flight St Mirren 1-0 that day. When the stadium announcer read out the score from Parkhead at full time, I felt happy and sick at the same time. Eta. Livi had been going well the previous season and had qualified for Europe, if memory serves. Wiping the floor with them with a performance we hadn't seen since the 60s was brilliant. Not your average Sunday League player. Post Edited (Sat 21 Jun 08:28) Reply |
| 28. Author: buffy Date: Sat 21st Jun 2025. 11:51 Hi folks, that’s the last of the email group memories in the Fans Stories tab on the home page. 16, in total, I think. I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading them. It’s been an absolute pleasure to have been involved in this project. Feel free to keep adding to this thread and perhaps in time Brian can move it to the Sticky Forum for permanent use. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply |
| 29. Author: GG Riva Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 08:45 I was in Cairneyhill with a friend yesterday and I pointed out the house of the late, great Alex Edwards. He asked me what my abiding memory of our greatest ever player was. Without hesitation, I replied "His last minute, SC winner v Kilmarnock at EEP." I can`t believe I left that game out of list of Favourite Pars Matches. It had all the excitement you`d expect from a cup tie between two of the top teams in the country. Both teams had finished well clear of Rangers and Celtic the previous season. Killie were champions on goal average from Hearts and the Pars had finished a point behind in 3rd. Killie took the lead just before halftime through Jackie McInally in an end to end game. After the break, the Pars laid siege to the visitors` goal, and it seemed we would never score, courtesy of some fine saves by Bobby Ferguson and some desperate defending by his teammates. Bertie Paton finally equalised with some 15 mins left and then when it looked like Killie had achieved their aim of taking the tie to a Rugby Park replay, Alex Smith played Edwards in as he made a diagonal run across the Kilmarnock penalty area, took it round a defender and then the goalkeeper, before rolling it into the net. Absolutely wonderful. Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 30. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 09:21 Remember the Killie game as it was getting rather tasty in the North Stand (pre cage) Just as Edwards scored I was hit on the head by a coin/stone, causing a wound that bled profusely! Never been the same since!🤕😵💫 Reply |
| 31. Author: veteraneastender Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 16:41 GG - you`ve been on too many Aperol Spritz.........Alex Edwards did a quick 1-2 "wall pass" with Shug Robertson on the halfway line to beat Killie`s offside trap allowing him to run in on Bobby Ferguson and slot away that late winner.... with a desparing Killie defender just too late to get there. Then Mickey wheeled away and ran down the length of the main stand whooping up like he scored the cup final winning goal !!! At least that`s how I mind it - or is nostalgia not what it used to be ? Struggling to post image - sorted !!!  Post Edited (Sat 28 Jun 16:53) Reply |
| 32. Author: red-star-par Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 16:52 Re, Alex Edwards, this is the sort of thread I used to love- usually Sammer would appear, and would provide a fantastic description of what actually happened. I wonder what happened to Sammer, he used to be one of my favourite posters, but just disappeared suddenly. I really hope nothing bad happened to him in Putin`s Russia. I had noticed a change in his writing, he had occasionally been critical of Putin, but that changed towards the end and he was very much toeing the party line, which is understandable Reply |
| 33. Author: buffy Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 16:53 He’s fine; just taking a break from the forum. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply |
| 34. Author: red-star-par Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 17:24 buffy, Sat 28 Jun 16:53 That`s great, I was a bit worried but I`m pleased he is okay. Cheers Buffy Reply |
| 35. Author: GG Riva Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 17:42 veteraneastender, Sat 28 Jun 16:41 VEE, thanks for that. I was sure wee Shuggy played Mickey in, but just to be doubly sure, I googled the game and came up with a report from the Pars archive site on COWS. Naturally, I assumed the author of that report had a better memory than a man of my advancingyears..... 🙄 Was Alex Smith even playing in that game? Had he not reluctantly agreed to join Rangers for a then record fee between two Scottish clubs? £51k. Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 36. Author: coventrypar Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 18:04 . Post Edited (Sat 28 Jun 21:19) Reply |
| 37. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 18:21 Good to know it`s now your favourite Pars` match! Reply |
| 38. Author: veteraneastender Date: Sat 28th Jun 2025. 19:21 GG - Smithy went to Ibrox at the end of that season I`m thinking. Maybe, as you suggest, not that he wants to recall that career move - he played in the debacle at Berwick then the ECWC final defeat, both 1967 - and was in Rangers player squad when they blew the league title on the last day of season 1967-68.......had he stayed at EEP he would likely have picked up his second cup winners medal that Saturday. I was at Aberdeen when he accidentally broke his leg playing for the Dons against the Pars - it was heard all over Pittodrie, a sickening sound. Post Edited (Sat 28 Jun 19:22) Reply |
| 39. Author: GG Riva Date: Sun 29th Jun 2025. 06:38 veteraneastender, Sat 28 Jun 19:21 VEE - Smithy was my boyhood hero, a status cemented when he gave me 2/- for a 6d copy of the Evening Citizen and told me to keep the change.😁 As an adult, I made the occasional visit to the Coaledge Tavern and he always offered me the first pint "on the house." I would have to insist on paying, reminding him that that was no way to run a successful business. 🙄 He had nothing against Rangers, but was quite settled and happy playing for his local team, but the Pars Chairman, (Leonard Jack?) told him he`d have to go as he`d accepted the offer and the Pars needed the money to balance the books. As you will know, the club paid their players decent money back then, but crowds were generally poor and at least one top player was sold every season. I think Sir Fergie followed Smith to Ibrox a year later for a new record fee, even though he was nothing like as good a footballer. Eta. Alex told me he was sent off for the only time in his career in his very last competitive game - a reserve match for Aberdeen - for swearing loudly at himself in frustration. 😂 The ref thought it was directed at him. Not your average Sunday League player. Post Edited (Sun 29 Jun 06:42) Reply |
| 40. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Sun 29th Jun 2025. 10:23 Alex Smith was outstanding in the semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle! Reply |
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