GlasgoJambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I watched the first half in the City Cafe on Blair St. They’d set up a telly downstairs and a few rows of chairs for the game. The City Cafe was the go to destination for most of my friends at the time as the house music scene dominated our social lives. It was the place to go first to get seen before heading on to various club nights. The game kicked off and it just didn’t feel right to me. There were people saying shush, and sit down while Scotland played against Brazil in the opening game of a World Cup! Decided to try somewhere else with a few other folk who liked football all year round. We ended up in Bannermans who were having a half time disco. Carnival De Paris, which Hearts fans had already appropriated, was blasting out. People were having a party. This being merely 3 weeks since that famous day in May I favoured the celebratory boozed up side of being a football fan. And Bannermans became where me and a few other watched Scotland and World Cup games for a good few years after that. 22 years later I’d maybe be looking for somewhere with a seat and a view and grumbling at the selfishness of my youthful self while secretly being envious at the enthusiasm and carelessness on display. I hope that whatever happens by June next year that watching your country compete is allowed to be the social activity that it should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 13 minutes ago, GlasgoJambo said: I watched the first half in the City Cafe on Blair St. They’d set up a telly downstairs and a few rows of chairs for the game. The City Cafe was the go to destination for most of my friends at the time as the house music scene dominated our social lives. It was the place to go first to get seen before heading on to various club nights. The game kicked off and it just didn’t feel right to me. There were people saying shush, and sit down while Scotland played against Brazil in the opening game of a World Cup! Decided to try somewhere else with a few other folk who liked football all year round. We ended up in Bannermans who were having a half time disco. Carnival De Paris, which Hearts fans had already appropriated, was blasting out. People were having a party. This being merely 3 weeks since that famous day in May I favoured the celebratory boozed up side of being a football fan. And Bannermans became where me and a few other watched Scotland and World Cup games for a good few years after that. 22 years later I’d maybe be looking for somewhere with a seat and a view and grumbling at the selfishness of my youthful self while secretly being envious at the enthusiasm and carelessness on display. I hope that whatever happens by June next year that watching your country compete is allowed to be the social activity that it should be. That’s all I’m hoping for. It’s probably not gonna happen but id love to be at Wembley. Brazil 98 I’d been banned from my local as me and a mate had set up buckets of water over the toilet doors when we left late on a Sunday night and the cleaner got taken out by them on the Monday morning, one after the other and had to go home It was a great day though and Collins penalty was some moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalterEgo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I was in the stadium, living and dieing. Scalpers wanting £400 a ticket and swathes of empty seats in the corporate areas. We got dog's abuse from the locals on the way to the game, warning us not dare spoil things by having the temerity to beat Brazil. A day to remember but also a day to forget, if you know what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Black Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I watched it in the Cavana Bar, Nerja , Spain wearing my Hearts top having just won the Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gorgie Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 My living room floor, 5 year old with a shandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETTY29 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Stade de France Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlasgoJambo Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, jack D and coke said: That’s all I’m hoping for. It’s probably not gonna happen but id love to be at Wembley. Brazil 98 I’d been banned from my local as me and a mate had set up buckets of water over the toilet doors when we left late on a Sunday night and the cleaner got taken out by them on the Monday morning, one after the other and had to go home It was a great day though and Collins penalty was some moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iantjambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Edmonstone Inn, Danderhall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETTY29 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Arrived in Paris. For some reason one of my mates took all his money and Brazil match ticket out in his bag. Woke up morning of game. No bag. Left it somewhere in centre of Paris. Scoured everywhere around Champes D'Elyses (sp) and in last cafe, pub we tried, they did have his bag. Everything in tact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 The haymarket bar. I seem to remember a piper was in there too. Some atmosphere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Caley Sample Room. Dropped a full pint on the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCGilmour Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Paris 👍🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomb Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Irish bar in Gothenburg, on company expenses so could afford to drink... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gashauskis9 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 The Tron. Absolute ****ing carnage. Pub opened for breakfast so was skittled before kick off. Only recollection is the anthems, the penalty and Fred Macauley trying to be funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooperstar Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 10 minutes ago, davemclaren said: Caley Sample Room. Dropped a full pint on the floor. £1.80 you've never forgotten about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmarkus1981 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 The Eden Hotel, Dunbar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, Sooperstar said: £1.80 you've never forgotten about! True. 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Салатные палочки Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Was discussing this with my mates just last night. We were 15 so watched it in one of my mates house. Me and a mate headed into town in the morning as he wanted a Scotland shirt. Couldn't get one anywhere so headed back and got the key for his dads drinks cabinet and made a concoction in a two litre ginger bottle. One of my mates brought his bagpipes and there was about 30 of us packed into his living room. It was absolute carnage when Collins stuck the penalty away and we were pretty gutted at the end but still buzzing as we had two games left and we had just left school so we just played football every day and procrastinated over getting jobs. One thing I remember from that day is one of my mates arriving with his face painted with a saltire but his sister had picked up turquoise paint instead of blue and someone piped up "who the **** are you supporting, the Miami Dolphins" . He took some slagging that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 At work, at IBM North Harbour, Portsmouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyphoonJambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 University Campus Fairbanks Alaska. On exercise with the RAF. We were being accommodated on the campus and convinced the manager to open the cinema and tune in their satelite for us. The condition was that we kept it quiet as the game was on in the small hours. However, 111Sqn at the time had half the station pipe band on it so, at 2-30am the place was woken by a pipes and drums drunken parade going down the road. 😁😁😁 She never opened up for any other matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmiyaHearts Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 The Springhill Tavern, Baillieston. It was wild, even got in a bit of crowd surfing at half time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Lynam Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Oddfellows. The only thing I remember is the toilets were like an ocean of piss. Great times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyk Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 With some Italian bird at her gaff in Germany Good day all round, apart form the result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assessor Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Fans zone outside the ground, watched game on big screen, went off at 1-1 and came on after Brazil made it 2. Absolute scenes when Scotland scored, Brazilian fans were boring if I remember.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwindonJambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 In the stadium on my £22 ticket watching it in the flesh alongside 7,000 ish other Scots. Great trip, great fun though sad outcome. There must have been 2-3 times as many Scots watching the game I'm bars and fan parks as well as inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Riva Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) In my house. Kincardine. By myself. Wife took the kids out to gie me pease. A guy I worked with flew back from a holiday with his wife in the States. Landed at Manchester airport on the morning of the game in France. He didnt tell his wife but on the way from Manchester to the States a week before he dropped a bag with all his Tartan army gear into a security locker at MAN airport Got off the flight told his missus that he had a flight booked from MAN to CDG Paris. Gave his wife a kiss and arrived in Paris 2hr before kick off. Edited November 13, 2020 by Hector Riva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaShango Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Golden Lion in Galashiels, 50p a pint during the game, had just turned 18 that year and what a summer it was after watching Hearts win the cup. Place was rammed, had a piper in the pub playing before the game started and it was rocking. As much as Collins annoys me, was crazy seeing a local guy score against Brazil in the opening match of a World Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchy frog Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 In the hoose sober with a 9 month old bairn. Likewise the 98 cup final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanks said no Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 In a bar in Symi (small Greek island off Rhodes). Think we were the only Scots on the island. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 1 hour ago, jack D and coke said: That’s all I’m hoping for. It’s probably not gonna happen but id love to be at Wembley. Brazil 98 I’d been banned from my local as me and a mate had set up buckets of water over the toilet doors when we left late on a Sunday night and the cleaner got taken out by them on the Monday morning, one after the other and had to go home It was a great day though and Collins penalty was some moment... Laughed out loud at that I watched it in the Gluepot in Galashiels, the place was absolutely bouncing, and when Collins penalty went in, drink was flying everywhere, and even though we lost, it was a cracking day! Happy times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointon Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Pavilion buck stone now charwood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, The Old Tolbooth said: Laughed out loud at that I watched it in the Gluepot in Galashiels, the place was absolutely bouncing, and when Collins penalty went in, drink was flying everywhere, and even though we lost, it was a cracking day! Happy times Good times😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenNaismith Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I was there with my son who had just turned 16 2 days before. Great memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Drifter Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 2 hours ago, GlasgoJambo said: I watched the first half in the City Cafe on Blair St. They’d set up a telly downstairs and a few rows of chairs for the game. The City Cafe was the go to destination for most of my friends at the time as the house music scene dominated our social lives. It was the place to go first to get seen before heading on to various club nights. The game kicked off and it just didn’t feel right to me. There were people saying shush, and sit down while Scotland played against Brazil in the opening game of a World Cup! Decided to try somewhere else with a few other folk who liked football all year round. We ended up in Bannermans who were having a half time disco. Carnival De Paris, which Hearts fans had already appropriated, was blasting out. People were having a party. This being merely 3 weeks since that famous day in May I favoured the celebratory boozed up side of being a football fan. And Bannermans became where me and a few other watched Scotland and World Cup games for a good few years after that. 22 years later I’d maybe be looking for somewhere with a seat and a view and grumbling at the selfishness of my youthful self while secretly being envious at the enthusiasm and carelessness on display. I hope that whatever happens by June next year that watching your country compete is allowed to be the social activity that it should be. It was either the Jinglin' or the Half Way House. Fleshmarket Close definitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasavallan Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I was there. I watched it beside Gary Locke, resplendent in a Hearts tartan kilt. I was lucky to be living in Paris in 98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spellczech Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I think I watched it in a pub in Bath St Glasgow...actually struggling to remember... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazzas right boot Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Maguluf. Fun times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasavallan Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I recall being in the Auld Alliance pub with Ewan McGregor when a drunk Stan Colleymore attacked Ulrika Jonsson. I sat beside Stan on the flight over to Paris CDG and he invited me out that night for a beer. Sheesh! 22 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parisjambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Stade de France 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Some campsite in the South of France. I'd taken a bunch of kids on a canoeing/watersports (no, not THOSE ones) trip and on the day of our transfer from Ardeche to south we were going to a waterpark then second campsite. The one stipulation I had was that we had to arrive in campsite 2 in sufficient time to get somewhere to see the game. We managed it...just. Met a Jambo in the bar there through the remaining few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruyff Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 9 year old, with my pals at my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwindonJambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 16 minutes ago, Tasavallan said: I recall being in the Auld Alliance pub with Ewan McGregor when a drunk Stan Colleymore attacked Ulrika Jonsson. I sat beside Stan on the flight over to Paris CDG and he invited me out that night for a beer. Sheesh! 22 years ago. I was in the Auld Alliance the next day and appeared on the front page of the Sun and Daily Snail in a photo they took of it reporting the story, along with fellow JKBer AndrewB. All the framed pictures had been removed from the walls and the whole place was bare, but very busy. There were several versions of the incident circulating among the fans but I'm told the barman artfully dealt with Collymore himself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gorgie Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 53 minutes ago, The Old Tolbooth said: Laughed out loud at that I watched it in the Gluepot in Galashiels, the place was absolutely bouncing, and when Collins penalty went in, drink was flying everywhere, and even though we lost, it was a cracking day! Happy times Sounds like a normal night in the gluepot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leginten Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 In south-east England, where I lived at the time. My line manager, a snide piece of utter filth, deliberately moved a meeting forward from its scheduled date in the knowledge that I would consequently miss at least the first half of the match. Got home for maybe the last half-hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkishcap Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 In my house with a dirty big fish supper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edramone Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Hong Kong Football Club which was full of England fans wearing Brasil tops and taking the piss out of Scotland before the kick off. They weren't so loud when we put in a performance although of course we still lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Say What Again Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) I watched it in the flat with a bunch of mates. Morrisons (it might have even been Safeway at the time?) was doing buy 4 bottles of Miller, get 4 free. I took every single thing I had out of the fridge - though being a young guy in his early 20s living alone, that wasn't much! - and we filled it with Miller. There must have been well over 100 bottles. I remember a golden glow coming from the fride when you opened the door. On the way back from the shops to the flat we stopped into Scotties for a few pints. The Sky cameras were there (or again whoever it was at the time. BSkyB, Setenata etc - though I'm sure it was Sky). Watched the fateful Morocco game in The Pitz. It was rammed. Edited November 13, 2020 by Say What Again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyphoonJambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) 24 minutes ago, leginten said: In south-east England, where I lived at the time. My line manager, a snide piece of utter filth, deliberately moved a meeting forward from its scheduled date in the knowledge that I would consequently miss at least the first half of the match. Got home for maybe the last half-hour. Reminds me of my first weekend in the RAF. ******* Cpl made all the jocks march up and down from 3 to 5 on the Saturday of the England v Scotland game at wembley, 1981. He let us go to tea with the warning that "if youse filthy, cave dwelling porridge eating retards have won, get your arses back at 6 for some more" Robertson scored and we won 1-0. More pointless marching up and down😢 He turned out to be a decent enough bloke actually, for a homividal, racist bigot. Told me years later that he always picked on the Scots as it was his job to get us working as a team and he knew 100% that we all got together at night working out how to **** him over, the beginning of the flight working as a team Edited November 13, 2020 by TypoonJambo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Tenerife with the lads. Watched the game in the hotel bar. 5 Scots and about 30 English lads (they were a good laugh to be fair). Shut them right up when Collins sent the penalty home. Was short lived but it was out moment in the sun. Brilliant! What a holiday that was but thats for another fred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graygo Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Benidorm. Amazing scenes after the game as hundreds of drunken Scots partied and the police shook their heads and closed off the main drag as a massive conga broke out as we "celebrated" another glorious failure. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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