St Mirren Photos & Videos

[Danny 424]

8 minutes ago, shull said:

Had to check if there was succh a Team. in

http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1961&GameID=196111200

Pressed Steel was a factory opposite Rootes car plant In Linwood over the Candy burn beyond the dummy railway Those from Feegie In the 60s know what I mean

[antrin 5,081]

Couple of my Buddies played for them.

one was just talking last w/e about playing for them down at Cappielow.

think it was a Renfrewshire cup early round.   Unsuccessful but a good day out, apparently.

Edited April 21, 2017 by antrin

[uhura 194]

Just looking at that Saints lineup. No political correctness in those days. 

[Tommy 3,728]

9 hours ago, uhura said:

Just looking at that Saints lineup. No political correctness in those days. 

Plus all our players have 2 names but their only 1.  Mins when goals were scored missing as well

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15 hours ago, Danny said:

Pressed Steel was a factory opposite Rootes car plant In Linwood over the Candy burn beyond the dummy railway Those from Feegie In the 60s know what I mean

http://www.imps4ever.info/linwood/pressed_steel/pressed_steel.html

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/Linwood

http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-121/  

http://www.srpsmuseum.org.uk/10146.htm

Edited April 21, 2017 by pod

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16 hours ago, Danny said:

Early programme signed by Theorolf (Tottie) Beck and the 62 Cup semi in which he played the one where the so-called best fans in the world tried to get the game abandoned when they were being cuffed 3 0 by invading the pitch

I wonder where you got that from.    

[shull 2]

Rick and a few others may have seen us play here

I didnae, wish I had.

[scrappy coco 2,123]

On 21/04/2017 at 0:01 AM, uhura said:

Just looking at that Saints lineup. No political correctness in those days. 

You had me thinking there...

The St Mirren Campbells – one Black and one Red

 

• The Sunday Post (Dundee)
• 9 Oct 2016
• By Brian Fowlie [email protected]

Sir Matt Busby suffered regularofffield problems with George Best.

ST MIRREN appointed Jack Ross as manager last week and he’s probably glad he didn’t play in an earlier era.

Despite being 17 years his junior, people still mix him up with former Dunfermline striker Ross Jack.

But that’s nothing compared to the confusion that once reigned at St Mirren.

Back in the ’60s, the Buddies had two Bobby Campbell’s in their squad.

A look at the record books shows that colours were used to identify the correct player.

One man was known as Black Campbell and the other as Red.

Bobby “Black” Campbell recalls that not everyone used those nicknames.

He said: “I signed for St Mirren in 1959 and the other Bobby Campbell was already on the books.

“I was going to be referred to as Bobby Campbell and he was to be Robert.

“But that didn’t seem to work and the R and B became Red and Black.

“My mother hated it. She said being called Black sounded as if I didn’t wash!

“Red did have red hair, but mine wasn’t black, it was more a fairish-brown colour.

“We were never known by the colours at training.

“The other players would call him Bobby and I was Boaby because I came from Ayrshire where it was pronounced differently.”

Bobby arrived at Love Street just as St Mirren won the Scottish Cup.

He recalled: “When I was signing, my father said to the manager, Willie Reid, ‘I hope you’re not going to get relegated’.

“He said they just needed a couple of good wins to get going. They then went all the way to beat Aberdeen at Hampden.

“It wasn’t easy for me to get into the team because they had two great inside forwards in Tommy Bryceland and Tommy Gemmell.

“I was a student at Glasgow University studying pure science during my time at St Mirren.

“My daytimes at university were quite a contrast to the characters I would meet when I went to train at night. It was a real eye-opener.”

Bobby’s next club was Morton – where he helped them win promotion by winning 23 games in row.

They also faced Rangers in the League Cup Final in front of more than 100,000 supporters.

He said: “Our coach, Doug Cowie, told me to follow Jim Baxter in the first half, not dive into tackles but make him play across the park and not make forward passes.

“It worked because the game was still at 0-0 at half-time.

“Then the manager, Hal Stewart, decided we should forget about Baxter. We ended up losing 5-0.”

Another Morton coach, Bobby Howitt, took over as Motherwell manager and recruited Bobby.

In September 1966, he went back to St Mirren and scored all five goals as the Steelmen ran out 5-0 winners.

It was a classic case of a player returning to haunt his old club.

He recalled: “I scored the first two goals with my head. You don’t have to be that tall to score with headers.

“The guy who replaced me at Motherwell, Dixie Deans, wasn’t that big, but was a great goal-scorer.

“The intention was to play further back in midfield but I scored 18 goals in second season and that kept me higher up the pitch for a while.”

Bobby, now 75, retired after a short spell with Stranraer in 1971.

He said: “Some ex-managers tried to get me into coaching but I got a job with IBM and decided to concentrate on that.”

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[antrin 5,081]

On 21 April 2017 at 0:01 AM, uhura said:

Just looking at that Saints lineup. No political correctness in those days. 

It has been a common thing in Gaelic/Highland culture to differentiate same (clan) named people by their hair colouring.

i share the same name as my Faither and of his Faither, so (when young with hair) I got the suffix dubh (black)...

as in antrin dubh.... (If there was another antrin about....)

just like Black Campbell. (Though I note he says their differential naming came from a more convoluted process.)

 

today, I'd more like be Maol than Dubh.

[shull 2]

[renfrew bud 132]

Great pic. Hope there's a lot of them at Normandy tonight to take their applause and we get some new pics. 

[shull 2]

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http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1963&GameID=196308030

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On 5/13/2017 at 9:54 PM, shull said:

That was the week after we beat DU 4-1 in the cup. The wee ginge scored but we won 3-1.

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http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1963&GameID=196308030

Hand up who's going to jail!
Betting and match fixing no just a recent thing.

[David Mc 1,623]

That was the week after we beat DU 4-1 in the cup. The wee ginge scored but we won 3-1.

Remember that. Three up before their pen. Huge result as Dundee were the "big club" challenging for the league.

[shull 2]

[Stoobs 369]

Love the Aberdeen strip in those days but how good was ours.

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,721]

1 minute ago, Stoobs said:

Love the Aberdeen strip in those days but how good was ours.

Looks a bit like Lex Richardson

[HSS 12,152]

1 minute ago, Eric Arthur Blair said:

Looks a bit like Lex Richardson

Challenging Drew Jarvie.

[Stoobs 369]

Looks a bit like Lex Richardson

I think it is. Drew Jarvie for the Dons.

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[windae cleaner 4,138]

8 hours ago, shull said:

Our new DJ no less

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Didn't know Junior was back.