Tinpot Things You've Seen In Football

[Dunks]

I remember this. Ref missed the goal and the deliberate handball - the Thistle player caught it FFS!

 

Did he ever referee again?

[iantjambo]

I remember this. Ref missed the goal and the deliberate handball - the Thistle player caught it FFS!

 

Did he ever referee again?

Yes he did, if I remember the ref was Les Mottram and he would later officiate at Euro '96.

 

I remember the incident well and I remember Tony Roper taking the piss out of it on one of the 'Only An Excuse' stage shows (in the days when OAE was funny).

[aussieh]

Fixed that for you.

MP was bang on, if its that shite, why bother?.

[LogicalEric]

I remember as a boy being enthralled that Clydebank had an all seater stadium. It sounded impressive to me at the time. We got there and one of the stand's sears were like wooden planks laid down on a muddy hill.

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Talking about Clydebank, remember when they were sponsored by Wet Wet Wet? Got to be a contender for Tinpot

[All roads lead to Gorgie]

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Talking about Clydebank, remember when they were sponsored by Wet Wet Wet? Got to be a contender for Tinpot

" Marti Pellow " if ever there was a Tinpot name, there you have it !

[Mars plastic]

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Talking about Clydebank, remember when they were sponsored by Wet Wet Wet? Got to be a contender for Tinpot

Talking again about the tinpot Clydebank, how the feck did they beat us 1-0 in 1985? In fact, Sandy Clark scored a right late goal to draw 1-1 in the other game there. Listened to that on the radio going banzai.

[i wish jj was my dad]

Despite finishing 8th and being pish all season Hibs still celebrating season 85/86 as their greatest ever achievement.

[...a bit disco]

Talking again about the tinpot Clydebank, how the feck did they beat us 1-0 in 1985? In fact, Sandy Clark scored a right late goal to draw 1-1 in the other game there. Listened to that on the radio going banzai.

I was at the 1-1 at Kilbowie.

 

A cold day, awful ground and their fans kept crossing themselves at me as some sort of vague threat.

 

Segregation was a horrible big iron fence and their fans looked (and acted) like caged animals.

 

Large contingent of Hearts casuals there that day too.

[...a bit disco]

Despite finishing 8th and being pish all season Hibs still celebrating season 85/86 as their greatest ever achievement.

Talking of them, their Athens video was a bit tinpot.

 

Considering they never even won the tie.

[We_are_the_Hearts]

I was at the 1-1 at Kilbowie.

 

A cold day, awful ground and their fans kept crossing themselves at me as some sort of vague threat.

 

Segregation was a horrible big iron fence and their fans looked (and acted) like caged animals.

 

Large contingent of Hearts casuals there that day too.

I was in the stand and can remember having to walk across the park at the end to get out the other end of the ground. Strange wee ground.

[...a bit disco]

I was in the stand and can remember having to walk across the park at the end to get out the other end of the ground. Strange wee ground.

Strange indeed.

 

'Tinpot' even.

 

[Boof]

At first glance I thought that was Doncaster between Sally + Durrant.

[Mars plastic]

Strange indeed.

'Tinpot' even.

[Drewboy]

I was at the 1-1 at Kilbowie.

 

A cold day, awful ground and their fans kept crossing themselves at me as some sort of vague threat.

 

Segregation was a horrible big iron fence and their fans looked (and acted) like caged animals.

 

Large contingent of Hearts casuals there that day too.

I was there too. Horrible place to watch football. I remember that ridiculous, some would say tinpot, social club/hospitality/office block at one end of the pitch. Kinda like Braga [emoji23]

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

Goal music is the most tinpot thing in football.

 

We have it

[trotter]

Hibs.

FTFY

[Mars plastic]

Goal music is the most tinpot thing in football.

 

We have it

Did Livingston not play some daft horn thing when we were there back in 2005/06? Was quite funny actually.

[Fitzroy Pointon]

I remember this. Ref missed the goal and the deliberate handball - the Thistle player caught it FFS!

 

Did he ever referee again?

Could be wrong but I think Mottram was in charge of the Fozzy on the Fence game.

 

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[Mikey1874]

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Talking about Clydebank, remember when they were sponsored by Wet Wet Wet? Got to be a contender for Tinpot

For this and other reasons mentioned it was a sad day when Clydebank left Scottish football.

[Fitzroy Pointon]

Goal music is the most tinpot thing in football.

 

We have it

That Lulu song was the worst. Every goal, her bloody screeching voice "weeeeeeeellllllll". Made me cringe every time.

 

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[Tazio]

Did Livingston not play some daft horn thing when we were there back in 2005/06? Was quite funny actually.

When there were corners if I remember rightly. Like a hunting bugle type of thing.

[LogicalEric]

Did Livingston not play some daft horn thing when we were there back in 2005/06? Was quite funny actually.

Yes! They used to also play daft wee jingles when players were getting subbed etc.

[Mars plastic]

When there were corners if I remember rightly. Like a hunting bugle type of thing.

That was exactly it!!

[...a bit disco]

Alloa playing the A Team theme whenever they scored.

[Matthew Le Tissier]

Hibs trying to have a card display but not having enough fans to do it

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

Peterhead circa 1990. Husref Musemic has signed for Hearts. In broad doric the announcer goes through the teams. He gets to Hearts number 9.......a pause.......a foreign name I canna pronoonce

[jamboozy]

In the Premier League in England, teams lining up for fake handshakes before kickoff with the match ball sitting on a plinth.

is a bit cringey tbh, don't mind exchanging handshakes but the ball on a plinth? We all know the game is played with a ball and what it looks like

[maroonlegions]

 

Whit!

 

It happened the year we won the Championship at a canter.. FTH.

[iantjambo]

Hibs releasing a DVD of a European tie that they lost is the winner by some distance.

[PTBCAL]

East Mains

[Samuel Camazzola]

The Scottish Cup draw getting halted by a fire alarm.

 

The League Cup semi final draw 07/08 which was screwed up by a Parliament Presiding Officer (Alex Fergusson I believe was his name).

 

The FA Cup draw which was done using a lottery style machine.

[Allowayjambo1874]

Most tinpot thing in Scottish football are the 'cheerleaders' at Rugby Park.

 

13 year old girls in skimpy uniforms doing dance routines in crap winter weather in front of a football crowd is really creepy imo. 

 

Just wrong.

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

The Scottish Cup draw getting halted by a fire alarm.

 

The League Cup semi final draw 07/08 which was screwed up by a Parliament Presiding Officer (Alex Fergusson I believe was his name).

 

The FA Cup draw which was done using a lottery style machine.

Last year's Scottish Cup draw when the ball was open

[Jamhammer]

Hiring a plane.

The winner by a feckin mile. Muggiest thing ever

 

 

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[Mars plastic]

The winner by a feckin mile. Muggiest thing ever

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Must be getting old as I've not the faintest idea what muggiest means.

[i wish jj was my dad]

I was at the 1-1 at Kilbowie.

 

A cold day, awful ground and their fans kept crossing themselves at me as some sort of vague threat.

 

Segregation was a horrible big iron fence and their fans looked (and acted) like caged animals.

 

Large contingent of Hearts casuals there that day too.

Place went bonkers when Big Sandy equalised.

 

Dodgy wee club and the Steedmans made Vlad look like a model owner. 

[Jamhammer]

Must be getting old as I've not the faintest idea what muggiest means.

Trying to think of a Scots equivalent. Possibly shan or pishy

 

 

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[Mars plastic]

Trying to think of a Scots equivalent. Possibly shan or pishy

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Shan. Now there's a word. Shan 90.

[Gorgiewave]

Plastic pitches so hard that, if a header is missed, a cross will fly out for a shy.

 

Managers and players who can barely speak their native language.

 

A 23-year-old professional player (Jamie Walker) who has apparently just stopped eating shite. Any professional player eating shite, drinking, smoking, clubbing until the wee small hours the day before a game.

 

Refusal to countenance change.

 

Offering only high-fat or high-sugar food at games.

[tian447]

It absolutely has to be Hibs.

There are many contenders for the exact reason why, but the winner has to be the fact that Hibs held a relegation party for us, got pumped, and then managed to get relegated themselves.  You literally could't make that up

 

The tinpot manner in how they managed to do it is almost completely unbelievable.  They spunked every single chance to stay up that came their way, and only managed to take 11 points in the 19 games between January 2nd and the end of the season.  11 points out of a possible 57, including an end of season run which looked like DLLLLLLDLL.  In the end, they finished off 11th on just 35 points after 38 games, so they didn't even manage to average a point a game all season.

 

They were 1 win away from staying up, as Partick Thistle finished on 38 points, but with a GD of only 1 better than Hibs, a win somewhere in the season would have swayed it.  In fact, in the 3rd last game of the season, Hibs and Partick drew 1-1, so if they had a managed to not be completely shite in this game alone, they'd have stayed up.  But alas, that is not the Hibs way.

 

Then there's the simple tinpot manner of the way in which they managed to get themselves relegated.

After leading 2-0 in the first leg against a Championship team, they clearly thought the job was done.  Their fans were once again being cocky, and the thought that Hamilton might be able to put just 2 goals against their completely shite team didn't even cross their mind for some reason.  In the return leg, Jason Scotland, a man who the Hibs fans chose to abuse from the stands, with the first karma-tastic kick in the baws had them sweating, but they held out for almost the whole game.  2-1 would still see Premiership football return to Easter Road the following season, and Hibs were playing like a team that were desperate to hold out for the 1-0 loss.  

 

But Hibs, once again proving that they are the most tinpot teams out of all the tinpot teams, comically done their usual.  In the 3rd minute of added time, with what was pretty much the last throw of the dice, Jason Scotland turned provider and played the ball to Tony Andreu who done exactly what every non-Hibs supporting football fan expected to happen, and equalised the tie.  The laughter from Gorgie had windows rattling in their frames as far away as the Top of the Walk, but that was not all that Hibs had to offer.

 

Hibs continue to shit themselves for another half an hour, and a different referee may have given Andy Ryan a penalty for what Willie Collum interpreted (probably correctly) as a dive, but for once the luck was with them.  There may have been a penalty down the other end for a foul on Liam Craig, but this is Hibs, and the cruel mistress of comedy had other ideas for them.

 

In the classic Hibernian way, they managed to put all the pressure on themselves with the very first spot kick, with Kevin Thompson forgetting that the idea of a penalty is to put the ball past the goalkeeper, and not straight at him.  Accies score their first 4 which means the pressure is almost at bursting point.  Who else steps up, but ex-Jambo Jason Cummings, who had obviously taken advice from the same school of Footballing Excellence as Thompson, and he puts the ball in exactly the same place leading to an easy save for the Hamilton keeper, and the sweet release of tears from the Hibs faithful, who will tell you that they didn't see it coming, but in their heart of hearts, they all did.  The explosion of laughter from Gorgie levelled half of the West End of the city, and the boos from Leith caused a disturbance which measured at around a 6.5 on the Richter Scale.

 

The award for the most tinpot thing ever seen in football absolutely must go to Hibernian F.C.

[Drewboy]

It absolutely has to be Hibs.

 

There are many contenders for the exact reason why, but the winner has to be the fact that Hibs held a relegation party for us, got pumped, and then managed to get relegated themselves. You literally could't make that up

 

The tinpot manner in how they managed to do it is almost completely unbelievable. They spunked every single chance to stay up that came their way, and only managed to take 11 points in the 19 games between January 2nd and the end of the season. 11 points out of a possible 57, including an end of season run which looked like DLLLLLLDLL. In the end, they finished off 11th on just 35 points after 38 games, so they didn't even manage to average a point a game all season.

 

They were 1 win away from staying up, as Partick Thistle finished on 38 points, but with a GD of only 1 better than Hibs, a win somewhere in the season would have swayed it. In fact, in the 3rd last game of the season, Hibs and Partick drew 1-1, so if they had a managed to not be completely shite in this game alone, they'd have stayed up. But alas, that is not the Hibs way.

 

Then there's the simple tinpot manner of the way in which they managed to get themselves relegated.

 

After leading 2-0 in the first leg against a Championship team, they clearly thought the job was done. Their fans were once again being cocky, and the thought that Hamilton might be able to put just 2 goals against their completely shite team didn't even cross their mind for some reason. In the return leg, Jason Scotland, a man who the Hibs fans chose to abuse from the stands, with the first karma-tastic kick in the baws had them sweating, but they held out for almost the whole game. 2-1 would still see Premiership football return to Easter Road the following season, and Hibs were playing like a team that were desperate to hold out for the 1-0 loss.

 

But Hibs, once again proving that they are the most tinpot teams out of all the tinpot teams, comically done their usual. In the 3rd minute of added time, with what was pretty much the last throw of the dice, Jason Scotland turned provider and played the ball to Tony Andreu who done exactly what every non-Hibs supporting football fan expected to happen, and equalised the tie. The laughter from Gorgie had windows rattling in their frames as far away as the Top of the Walk, but that was not all that Hibs had to offer.

 

Hibs continue to shit themselves for another half an hour, and a different referee may have given Andy Ryan a penalty for what Willie Collum interpreted (probably correctly) as a dive, but for once the luck was with them. There may have been a penalty down the other end for a foul on Liam Craig, but this is Hibs, and the cruel mistress of comedy had other ideas for them.

 

In the classic Hibernian way, they managed to put all the pressure on themselves with the very first spot kick, with Kevin Thompson forgetting that the idea of a penalty is to put the ball past the goalkeeper, and not straight at him. Accies score their first 4 which means the pressure is almost at bursting point. Who else steps up, but ex-Jambo Jason Cummings, who had obviously taken advice from the same school of Footballing Excellence as Thompson, and he puts the ball in exactly the same place leading to an easy save for the Hamilton keeper, and the sweet release of tears from the Hibs faithful, who will tell you that they didn't see it coming, but in their heart of hearts, they all did. The explosion of laughter from Gorgie levelled half of the West End of the city, and the boos from Leith caused a disturbance which measured at around a 6.5 on the Richter Scale.

 

The award for the most tinpot thing ever seen in football absolutely must go to Hibernian F.C.

Surely you've made that up or embellished it a tad too much cos it a ridiculous story....oh wait [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

 

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[iantjambo]

It absolutely has to be Hibs.

 

There are many contenders for the exact reason why, but the winner has to be the fact that Hibs held a relegation party for us, got pumped, and then managed to get relegated themselves. You literally could't make that up

 

The tinpot manner in how they managed to do it is almost completely unbelievable. They spunked every single chance to stay up that came their way, and only managed to take 11 points in the 19 games between January 2nd and the end of the season. 11 points out of a possible 57, including an end of season run which looked like DLLLLLLDLL. In the end, they finished off 11th on just 35 points after 38 games, so they didn't even manage to average a point a game all season.

 

They were 1 win away from staying up, as Partick Thistle finished on 38 points, but with a GD of only 1 better than Hibs, a win somewhere in the season would have swayed it. In fact, in the 3rd last game of the season, Hibs and Partick drew 1-1, so if they had a managed to not be completely shite in this game alone, they'd have stayed up. But alas, that is not the Hibs way.

 

Then there's the simple tinpot manner of the way in which they managed to get themselves relegated.

 

After leading 2-0 in the first leg against a Championship team, they clearly thought the job was done. Their fans were once again being cocky, and the thought that Hamilton might be able to put just 2 goals against their completely shite team didn't even cross their mind for some reason. In the return leg, Jason Scotland, a man who the Hibs fans chose to abuse from the stands, with the first karma-tastic kick in the baws had them sweating, but they held out for almost the whole game. 2-1 would still see Premiership football return to Easter Road the following season, and Hibs were playing like a team that were desperate to hold out for the 1-0 loss.

 

But Hibs, once again proving that they are the most tinpot teams out of all the tinpot teams, comically done their usual. In the 3rd minute of added time, with what was pretty much the last throw of the dice, Jason Scotland turned provider and played the ball to Tony Andreu who done exactly what every non-Hibs supporting football fan expected to happen, and equalised the tie. The laughter from Gorgie had windows rattling in their frames as far away as the Top of the Walk, but that was not all that Hibs had to offer.

 

Hibs continue to shit themselves for another half an hour, and a different referee may have given Andy Ryan a penalty for what Willie Collum interpreted (probably correctly) as a dive, but for once the luck was with them. There may have been a penalty down the other end for a foul on Liam Craig, but this is Hibs, and the cruel mistress of comedy had other ideas for them.

 

In the classic Hibernian way, they managed to put all the pressure on themselves with the very first spot kick, with Kevin Thompson forgetting that the idea of a penalty is to put the ball past the goalkeeper, and not straight at him. Accies score their first 4 which means the pressure is almost at bursting point. Who else steps up, but ex-Jambo Jason Cummings, who had obviously taken advice from the same school of Footballing Excellence as Thompson, and he puts the ball in exactly the same place leading to an easy save for the Hamilton keeper, and the sweet release of tears from the Hibs faithful, who will tell you that they didn't see it coming, but in their heart of hearts, they all did. The explosion of laughter from Gorgie levelled half of the West End of the city, and the boos from Leith caused a disturbance which measured at around a 6.5 on the Richter Scale.

 

The award for the most tinpot thing ever seen in football absolutely must go to Hibernian F.C.

Beautiful, and so beautifully written

[York Ninja]

I remember this. Ref missed the goal and the deliberate handball - the Thistle player caught it FFS!

 

Did he ever referee again?

 

I remember all the goalnets being altered afterwards.  No stanchions anymore - just poles well behind the net so that if the ball goes in the goal, it stays in the net.

 

Instead of giving Mottram a b*llocking, they order all the clubs in Scotland to alter their goalnets.  Typical SFA looking after their own and refusing to admit mistakes.

[Beast Boy]

TBGAWA

[Beast Boy]

 

 

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[Horatio Caine]

It absolutely has to be Hibs.

 

There are many contenders for the exact reason why, but the winner has to be the fact that Hibs held a relegation party for us, got pumped, and then managed to get relegated themselves.  You literally could't make that up

 

The tinpot manner in how they managed to do it is almost completely unbelievable.  They spunked every single chance to stay up that came their way, and only managed to take 11 points in the 19 games between January 2nd and the end of the season.  11 points out of a possible 57, including an end of season run which looked like DLLLLLLDLL.  In the end, they finished off 11th on just 35 points after 38 games, so they didn't even manage to average a point a game all season.

 

They were 1 win away from staying up, as Partick Thistle finished on 38 points, but with a GD of only 1 better than Hibs, a win somewhere in the season would have swayed it.  In fact, in the 3rd last game of the season, Hibs and Partick drew 1-1, so if they had a managed to not be completely shite in this game alone, they'd have stayed up.  But alas, that is not the Hibs way.

 

Then there's the simple tinpot manner of the way in which they managed to get themselves relegated.

 

After leading 2-0 in the first leg against a Championship team, they clearly thought the job was done.  Their fans were once again being cocky, and the thought that Hamilton might be able to put just 2 goals against their completely shite team didn't even cross their mind for some reason.  In the return leg, Jason Scotland, a man who the Hibs fans chose to abuse from the stands, with the first karma-tastic kick in the baws had them sweating, but they held out for almost the whole game.  2-1 would still see Premiership football return to Easter Road the following season, and Hibs were playing like a team that were desperate to hold out for the 1-0 loss.  

 

But Hibs, once again proving that they are the most tinpot teams out of all the tinpot teams, comically done their usual.  In the 3rd minute of added time, with what was pretty much the last throw of the dice, Jason Scotland turned provider and played the ball to Tony Andreu who done exactly what every non-Hibs supporting football fan expected to happen, and equalised the tie.  The laughter from Gorgie had windows rattling in their frames as far away as the Top of the Walk, but that was not all that Hibs had to offer.

 

Hibs continue to shit themselves for another half an hour, and a different referee may have given Andy Ryan a penalty for what Willie Collum interpreted (probably correctly) as a dive, but for once the luck was with them.  There may have been a penalty down the other end for a foul on Liam Craig, but this is Hibs, and the cruel mistress of comedy had other ideas for them.

 

In the classic Hibernian way, they managed to put all the pressure on themselves with the very first spot kick, with Kevin Thompson forgetting that the idea of a penalty is to put the ball past the goalkeeper, and not straight at him.  Accies score their first 4 which means the pressure is almost at bursting point.  Who else steps up, but ex-Jambo Jason Cummings, who had obviously taken advice from the same school of Footballing Excellence as Thompson, and he puts the ball in exactly the same place leading to an easy save for the Hamilton keeper, and the sweet release of tears from the Hibs faithful, who will tell you that they didn't see it coming, but in their heart of hearts, they all did.  The explosion of laughter from Gorgie levelled half of the West End of the city, and the boos from Leith caused a disturbance which measured at around a 6.5 on the Richter Scale.

 

The award for the most tinpot thing ever seen in football absolutely must go to Hibernian F.C.

This absolutely has to be the winner!

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

This absolutely has to be the winner!

Nah Hibs don't win. Or when they do it all goes wrong. That party in the park was suitably tinpot

[Mikey1874]

Beautiful, and so beautifully written

Could be a film

[Drewboy]

Could be a film

Should be!

 

 

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[Samuel Camazzola]

 

 

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Ha ha.

 

Played football with Willie. Not a bad wee player.