St Johnstone in the blue tops and white shorts against Dundee in the, er, blue tops and white shorts
alan pattullo
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alan pattullo
@alan_pattullo
sports writing asparagus farmer and Big Dunc chronicler. Glamis. Dundee. Edinburgh. The Scotsman since - eek - 1998.
Edinburgh
Joined March 2009
- I've burned my retinas out trying to work out how this is a penaltyPENALTY MISS! Tavernier steps up and blasts the ball well over the bar from the spot 😲
00:00 - Dundee secretary Eric Drysdale gave Inverness CT and others his "solemn word" that club submitted a no vote says Scot Gardiner, chief executive of Inverness CT, on @BBCSportsound
- Forty years ago today. Maradona v everybody else. Photographer: Steve Powell for Sports Illustrated.
- Oh, Paddy. Heading to Dens with a heavy, heavy heart today but then there's nowhere else to be. Remembering a hero, mentor and best of friends, with whom so much fun's been had. British football has had few finer chroniclers and @DundeeFC have had no finer ambassador.
- @TheScotsman report from Bobby Charlton's first-team debut at Dens Park in a friendly v Dundee in April '56. Dundee 5 Manchester United 1 "Best of United's reserves was Charlton (18), a forward of whom much is expected. He made a promising debut in the first team."
- Doris McLean will attend her first match at Tannadice in nearly two decades at this weekend's Dundee derby. There are several emotional hurdles to overcome but there will be pride as well as tears as her late husband's statue is unveiled on eve of game.
- Not bad. But still not the most goals scored by a British side against German opposition in the European Cup: @DundeeFC 8 @fckoeln_en 1
- Meanwhile, Albert Kidd with Pat Stanton before Hibs v Dundee
- Good to see Alex MacDonald looking well and back at Tynecastle last night for the launch of John Robertson's new (and superb) autobiography
- Bobby Charlton was right. The Scottish Cup final is incomparable. The SFA shouldn't let TV ruin the magic at fans' expense.
- Scottish football literally being planned around Old Firm...📝 Scottish Premiership fixtures release: Celtic and Rangers face October wait for Old Firm showdown trib.al/grnyQH8
- Moldova v Scotland. Classic Eastern European football stadium
