A strange (illustrated) message arrived in the BLFP inbox this morning:
Blast from the past -
Dunbarton Fc v Morton at the bog
Morton legend ” Andy Ritchie ” took a free kick – it went thru the legs of six Sons players straight into the back of the net. the goalie didn’t even see it . Morton went on to win 6-1 , I wiz there,
Phil
So, Sons fans, did this happen? I remember a sore defeat one year around new year from the ‘ton but I think that was 4-0. Is Phil recounting a detailed happy memory? or is he haverin’ an’ scribblin’ a dream sequence……..?
Through the legs of six players…..? hmmmm.
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Dumbarton lined up a tunnel instead of a wall??
I share your ‘hmmmm’
Andy Ritchie was a constant thorn in the side of Aberdeen when he was at his Morton career peak.
I can see what you mean.
If he did, the final score certainly wasn’t 6-1.
Is Friday no Bucky day in Greenock
Never was a 6-1.
The Ne-erday game was circa 1977, it was 4-1 and Sons goal was scored by Murdo McLeod; Morton’s star men were Roddy Hutchison and John Goldthorpe.
To be honest, I don’t actually recall Andy Ritchie ever playing against Dumbarton for Morton.
even the sons have to admit andy ritchie was the best player never to win a world cup medal, the game was circa ’77 and I am sure it was 12-1. By the way friday is lanliq day, wednesday fir buckie.
We got drubbed in consecutive New Years Day fixtures, 0-4 in 77 and 1-4 in 78. I was at the 78 game, and after studying the sketch of the incident, I doubt very much if Prime Minister Jim Callaghan was in goal for Sons that day, he was far too busy laying the foundations for the “Winter of Discontent”. Even if it was, he would have finished colouring in his shirt before he ran on the field.
Ritchie was usually called fat, lazy and genius in the same sentence, it would have been looking for a needle in a haystack to pinpoint a single individual at Boghead that day, going on that discription alone.
In defence of my pal Phil, whom I have known since our holidays in Carstairs 20-odd years ago, he drinks far too much, takes drugs that would knock an elephant doo lally, and is (technical term) mad as a hard-bristled brush, can I say in mitigation that he comes from Inverclyde. So be nice, guys.
Where’s that like button?
big thanks to bobby for ritchie video clip – I was at that game and have never seen that video. Also i always enjoyed the banter in the sons’s pubs before and after we gubbed them. The important thing is to support your local team
Perhaps not the best time for a Mooreton fan to be crowing Phil?
8)
I was at that game too! One of many scunnering days for Dons fans against Morton during that era.