The H Word

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For those of us who were there back in 1985, the "H Word" is one that still sends a chill down the spine even 35 years on.

This is a tremendous account of what happened though.

Education for the younger fans, closure for us oldies.

Open at your peril!

nutmegmagazine.co.uk/issue-2/healin…

[saintargyll]

Sadistic B@stard 

[chalky1]

Load of nonsense, that night never happened!!!! Well it's what I tell myself 

 

And then even to this day you hear the occasional shout from the stand to assume Hammarby position and all the young ones look at us as if we are stupid, clueless as to what we are talking about.

[Sonny]

No chance am I opening that link. It's still too raw.

[suedehead]

.............. Worst night ever. ..... Brian Gallacher must've been spewing. .... Away hat-trick in Europe and still we went out on our arse. ......

[whydowebother]

Cruel !!

None of us deserve this treatment !

It’s still etched on the memory

[scrappy coco]

I'm still scratching my head thinking I left my mate's in the north bank while we were 1-0 up and by 

the time I had walked through the segregation gate and was standing at the top of the Caledonia st 

terrace we had conceded 3 goals..........Unfeckenbelievable...

[StanleySaint]

Listened to it on the radio from my Uni halls in Dundee, still remember banging my head on the desk thinking what just happened!! However 87 madd up for it!

[Bud the Baker]

Hammarby trumps the 2010 LC Final for me, it's all part of the jigsaw that makes me a Saints fan and I wouldn't swap those "disasters" for a rounded personality.

[munoz]

There were certainly many highs in the 80s but unfortunately that night still haunts me till this day. 

Good article. 

[nedflanders123]

1 hour ago, cockles1987 said:

NSFAFW

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[eastlandssaint]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammarby_Fotboll

[whydowebother]

There were certainly many highs in the 80s but unfortunately that night still haunts me till this day. 
Good article. 

Whit ?

You actually clicked the link?

Scandalous behaviour & totally uncalled for!

[whydowebother]

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That was my thought too.

But I sort of hope it means something brilliant [emoji2]

[whydowebother]

NSFAFW

Never Seen Football As f**king Wasteful ?

[paul torfason]

When a first read the title a thought it was about David hay,just as bad in my eyes

[Dirty Sanchez]

Had the ball in the net five times in the away leg, but had two goals disallowed just for the craic.

A financially doped Dunfermline, managed by none other than Davie Hay, actually repeated the fiasco against a team from Iceland. Here.

That Peter Mackie goal against the **** is a bit underrated. **** had scored a customary late equaliser, but Mackie was having none of it this time and burst through the middle of them to rattle in the winner down at the Love Street end.

[truesaint]

Was watching clips of the st mirren v st etienne game the other week. I see St Mirren tv has improved a bit since then and the camera men must be a bit younger (around 5.30) mark.

 

[Liverpool Bud]

If it’s any consolation H@mmerby went out in into the following round. They were beaten by FC Koln 

H@mmerby were 2-1 up after the first leg but lost 3-1 to the Germans away from home in the second leg with deciding goal being scored against then in the 86 minute!

Fc Koln went on to reach the final playing Real Madrid

Can you imagine - we beat Koln - then hump sporting clube of Portugal in the quarter final before seeing off Waregem ( who?) of Belgium before our date with destiny against the Spanish giants 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by Liverpool Bud

[doonhamer]

Too soon.

[Gordon Urquhart]

Shiver

[Sweeper07]

My big CH mate and I were speechless from the final whistle all the way home that night...

Can never forget it . . .   To some extend Barcelona and Ajax have a more serious bad taste with this last weeks results...

[Cornwall_Saint]

Awful night, but being a “younger” one I wasn’t alive at the time, so that article is probably the best insight I’ve had into what happened. Always known “Hammarby” was never to be spoken of, and I knew it involved late goals, but I knew nothing more until now.

The 2010 defeat to OldCo will always be the Hammarby moment of my generation.

[Wendy Saintss]

If it’s any consolation H@mmerby went out in into the following round. They were beaten by FC Koln 
H@mmerby were 2-1 up after the first leg but lost 3-1 to the Germans away from home in the second leg with deciding goal being scored against then in the 86 minute!
Fc Koln went on to reach the final playing Real Madrid
Can you imagine - we beat Koln - then hump sporting clube of Portugal in the quarter final before seeing off Waregem ( who?) of Belgium before our date with destiny against the Spanish giants 
 
 

Of course course, that should really have been our second European Final against Real Madrid.

Had Billy Thomson not made an arse of it, we’d have beaten Aberdeen in the 1982 Scottish Cup Semi, defeated Rangers in the final then gone on to defeat Bayern Munich in the European Cup Winners Cup the following season before taking on Real in the final.

And we should then have topped it off with our third European triumph in 1988 instead of Mechelen who went on to win the Cup Winners Cup defeating Ajax in the final.

[Wendy Saintss]

Knew he wisnae far away. 

Hi sweeper [emoji106]