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Got myself into Somerset Park,for two nil game wi Mcleod overhead kick,from Ayrshire originally and my mate was on turnstiles at the railway end,actually had ticket for it anyways so donated it to a Bear in need outside,so wasn't technically free but didn't need ticketĀ 

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Me and my mate were working in north of England when we played Shelbourne in Tranmere. Ticketless we headed down in the works van making ' ticket ' signs to every supporters buses we passed with no luck .Ā 

Once there , instead of going for a drink , we just went round pubs to find tickets , again to no avail . Hung about the stadium and still no tickets . With kick off coming and as a last resort we approached a security guy at the stadium hoping he'd just let us slip in .Ā 

' no bother ' he says , ' there's the pay in gate ' :DĀ 

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Skipped into the piggery and shittodrie a few times. In Europe got let down with a ticket in sturm Graz, raging, but jumped turn style and was chased by 2 cops, but managed to escape once I was in the stadium. Got beat 2 nil, but still worth it!!

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Years ago at the old douglas park in Hamilton. My dad was on duty with the police at the game and mum was working so my dad just blagged me n my brother in, stuck us in the crowd n told not to move.

If I mind correctly they were suing scumdee utd.

Mind you went behind the wooden billboards for a pish.Ā 

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Many a "lift over" as a lad. Latterly got into many games courtesy of my next door neighbour who was an O/B technician with STV; often ended up in the press box. Best of all was my first SC Final. St Midden v Sheep in 1959. My father took me along expecting pay at the gate but it was ticket only (in these days even St Midden had a decent level of support). We were about to leave when he met a police "brother". He flashed his warrent card and said we were CID and son. Got into enclosure under the main stand.

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There was millions of tickets up at Forres (but none before), boy that runs my bus insisted they weren't running one but then turned up on a mini bus with the more sensible ones :lol:Ā Also travelledĀ with @southdown 1916Ā and came back about Ā£200 lighter and with a new burd :anguish:

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10 hours ago, K.A.I said:

Werder Bremen Away - I went with the bus that left from the Grapes. My Dad was working in Rotterdam at the time in a ship yard and I had arranged to get dropped off at Rotterdam and get a taxi to my Dad's yard where he had put on a bus from the port with all sorts of guys from Rotterdam, Scotland, England and Ireland. Everything going well, nice wee 3 hour or so journey ...beer flowing .. my Dad says to me when we are almost there "when you giving the lads their tickets?" WTF ... eh? .. he had promised them all tickets off me despite me saying no it was impossible previously. Crossed wires somewhere.

We got to a pub just off Bremen square and said leave it with me ... seen a mate who knows Dougie Park and he gave him a phone ... he had 16 tickets for my group and saved my life but they were neutral type tickets which I said was fine give me them .. say the the tickets were 31 euros off hand .. everyone in the pub slammed down 50 euro notes and fucked off/refused change/I never had change .. pick one or all 3 .. whatever .. tickets sorted ..... everyone had a ticket ... only my prick of a Dad drunk lost his ... fucking hell OK, so I gave him mine and I was gonna chance it ... got to the turnstiles and the wee prick lost that one too! ...big Daniels from the KP bus kidded on there was a problem/emergency at the turnstile to create a divert and then pushed me and my Dad through lol ...sorted.. after the game I was fucking dreading the bus journey back and my Dad's mates said your going no going back on a bus, get back to Rotterdam and we will worry about it later .. ok then lol ... next morning my Dad came back from work with an envelope with a first class KLM boarding pass in it and another envelope with 600 odd euros in it ... it was the remains of the kitty and a massive whip round that got the flight ticket and euros as a thank you for getting them the 16 tickets ... I've never profiteed off Rangers fans or the club in the my life but it was a good gesture was close to tears but they looked after me after I looked after them

There's other times too like Villareal and stuff but I plan on getting up early in the morning to do stuff I'd be here all night with that trip :lol:

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Me and my mate chanced our arm and went over to see if we pick up a couple of spares for the old firm game (just had to check the date there, cannae believe it was 1996 :() and as you would expect got fuck all. My mate to his credit brassed necked it and says to the turnstyle guy (govan rear) about paying in. We gave the guy a score each and we were in. Ā Obviously have to try and spot an empty seat so we get up and my mate goes one way and i go the other and i spots an empty seat and heads for it. I sat down and the guy next to me looks as if ive shat in his pocket, he obviously knows whose seat it is and that whoever it is cannae make it. Give the guy credit though, he never mentioned it and we went on to Ā beat them 2-0 and i was directly in line with gazzas header. I was 17 at the time and i dont think its ever been bettered as a day at the football

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31 minutes ago, dougie76 said:

Same here but in the 80's, was gutted when l finally realised l wasĀ to big for a lift over?Ā 

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:lol: I guess it could look a bit suss when a 23 tr old says..."Gie's a lift ower, Mister :mutley:

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Few years back, went to tynecastle ticketless after about 2 hours trying everywhere ,thought it

wasnt our lucky day ,then looked over to the ticket window,and people were coming away with

tickets in envelopes, joined the queue got to front and said to the woman behind the counter

" tickets for John colqouhn,please, (who played for them at the time) she went away,stood there for a couple ofĀ 

minutes,she came back "there you are sir" took the envelope quickly,went round the corner opened it up

and there was 4 tickets forĀ the main stand,went in and crapped it for the whole game ,in case somebody

came in for the seats,nobody appeared,brilliant, tried it again at scumdee United a few years later,

didnt work!

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1981 SC replay vĀ ScumdeeĀ Hivs....jumped the wall at the Rangers end but unbeknown to me two coppers were in the toilet on the other side...huckled and missedĀ the game Ā locked up wi a junkie i knew from my area.Ā we won 4-1 if I remember rightlyĀ 

GotĀ out after the game was finished and was expecting some sort of summona to the children's panel but I never heard anything else about itĀ 

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35 minutes ago, mrmojorisin said:

1981 SC replay vĀ ScumdeeĀ Hivs....jumped the wall at the Rangers end but unbeknown to me two coppers were in the toilet on the other side...huckled and missedĀ the game Ā locked up wi a junkie i knew from my area.Ā we won 4-1 if I remember rightlyĀ 

GotĀ out after the game was finished and was expecting some sort of summona to the children's panel but I never heard anything else about itĀ 

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3 hours ago, IanFerguson2013 said:

Just the lift over as a boy.

I can remember some older teenager asking me for a lift when I was a bit older. He was as tall as me and looked like he could be holding down a job so I did not lift him.

That was probably me?

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15 hours ago, Ozblue said:

Used to do it every game back in the 50's....."Gie's a lift ower, Mister :D

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Remember my dad giving me a lift over in the late 60s think it was St Jonstone on a pish wet day. Anyway, the cunt behind the turnstile wasn't having it and insisted that my old man pay for me. He spent 10 min arguing with this guy with me dangling over the turnstile ?

Guy got fed up listening to my old man and eventually said ok on you go.

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7 hours ago, heathen fish boy said:

Fair play to the Forres directors,that was great hospitality from them,there's still some decent folk out thereĀ 

Defo. I felt guilty lying to a group of nice, honest guys but you do what you've gotta do.

Funny thing was there was another guy up trying to pull a similar stunt but because he was a bit drunk and loud the Forres directors said to me "your genuine, but he's not - he's at it" ... inside I knew it was the other way about - me at it and him genuine :lol:

BTW quick edit, the Bremen bus wasn't the Grapes, was the District.

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1988...5-1 game - student card and a shirt and tie - said I was an off-duty steward - straight into the East Enclosure. 1989...4-1 game - same tactics except this time I went along 2 hours before kick off and got a friend in too - spent an hour wandering around track-side whilst the cops were having their briefing in the front of the Copland. Ā 2000...porkheid - a tenner to the guy on the turnstile and told him to get his maw a present. 2001....porkheid - managed to retain the whole ticket (rather than give up the stub) then passed it out under the fence for another bear to use to get in....... Oh the fun! Ā Now a very law-abiding (and boring) citizen!!

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