BEAT THIS!

[Auchinleckian]

On the more than slightly wacky Pie and Bovril Fourm there's a posting about how Auchinleck Talbot arose from the ashes of an 11-0 gubbing by Cumnock in the early 1970's.

A regular poster on there, from our rivals Kilbirnie Ladeside recalls some of the more shall we say "fruity" games between the two clubs in the 1970's, including a Scottish Junior Cup tie in the mid 1970's when a full scale riot really did take place in front of a crowd of over 3,000 - enhanced by Killie and Rangers fans that has gone down in both clubs' folklore. It also attracted the wrath of the Scottish mainstream media at the time. See post from my good pal, Dipple Burn, below for his thoughts......Priceless!

I was only 15 when the riot took place. The Killie v Rangers game had been called off late. Do you remember wee Jock on top of the clubhouse with the drum? He ended up as the club president. Jock had already been in trouble after invading the pitch during a game against Bellshill with his goat. It was a big feck-off Ram and it had a blanket over the top of it with Talbot stitched onto it like the regimental mascots. On the Sunday Jock was given a severe reprimand and the goat was given a life ban from Beechwood.

[Eck]

Can't beat it but a good story my mate told me. He was at the Scottish cup semi-final (76 I think) Rangers v Motherwell. Motherwell ran riot in the first half and led 2-0,a scoreline which flattered Rangers,at that tme,you couldn't get a pie & bovril in the Rangers end at Hampden and there was an eight foot metal fence so you were stuck there. The eight foot fence was no deterrent to one hungry rangers fan who quickly scaled the fence to go over into the enclosure which housed the bulk of the Motherwell support,one Motherwell fan spotted the guy on top of the fence,pointed at him and shouted "HERE THEY COME!" and caused a panic, and the guy landed on what was now a big empty space and went to get his refreshments.