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The Double Cup-Winning Season Of 1989/90


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I'll cut straight to the chase with this one:

 

After reading the last Red Final, which contained articles on the team mentioned above, which finished runners-up in the league and won both cups (playing some of the best football in our history in the process!) I feel it merits discussion among us and perhaps even an official commemoration in the form of AFC holding an official event, a la Gothenburg Greats.

 

Your thoughts on this (and the season in general)?

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I fondly recall the pumpings of Hearts & Dundee Utd en route to the Scottish Cup win. 4-1 & 4-0 (for our younger viewers).

Probably more than the final itself which was a bit of an anti climax.

 

Hearts came to Pittodrie in the QF apparently (according to the press) ready to methodically dump us out of the competition.

We (esp Gillhaus & Nicholas) reamed them inside oot in that 2nd half shooting into the Merkland.

Was in sector Y that day. Ace celebrations & probably around 20 odd pints afterwards to top it off.

 

Semi against the Arabs was a brilliant day oot.

Drunk Edinburgh dry...in the corner terracing at Tynecastle under the roof. The bit wi the maist bio hazardous urinals known to man.

Think Irvine scored 2 in 1st half. Also an OG. The Gillhaus wrapped it up with a fearsome, bullet like strike from the edge of the box.

Marvelous.

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I fondly recall the pumpings of Hearts & Dundee Utd en route to the Scottish Cup win. 4-1 & 4-0 (for our younger viewers).

Probably more than the final itself which was a bit of an anti climax.

 

Hearts came to Pittodrie in the QF apparently (according to the press) ready to methodically dump us out of the competition.

We (esp Gillhaus & Nicholas) reamed them inside oot in that 2nd half shooting into the Merkland.

Was in sector Y that day. Ace celebrations & probably around 20 odd pints afterwards to top it off.

 

Semi against the Arabs was a brilliant day oot.

Drunk Edinburgh dry...in the corner terracing at Tynecastle under the roof. The bit wi the maist bio hazardous urinals known to man.

Think Irvine scored 2 in 1st half. Also an OG. The Gillhaus wrapped it up with a fearsome, bullet like strike from the edge of the box.

Marvelous.

 

 

Just for you

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka5DLZz3gec

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was that the season we lost the league to rangers on the last day when we needed a draw at ibrox and had michael watt in goals. Hately clattered him early doors and his bottle went?

or was that the next season?

I remember that last day as i was playing football in glasgow and saw huns celebrating and didnt even need to ask the score. Even at that early age (about 11) I found them odious.

Think i found a £10 note that day too which perked me up no end managed to buy fish suppers for about half the team !

I think a double cup win is worth celebrating not like we have many other reasons

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was that the season we lost the league to rangers on the last day when we needed a draw at ibrox and had michael watt in goals. Hately clattered him early doors and his bottle went?

or was that the next season?

I remember that last day as i was playing football in glasgow and saw huns celebrating and didnt even need to ask the score. Even at that early age (about 11) I found them odious.

Think i found a £10 note that day too which perked me up no end managed to buy fish suppers for about half the team !

I think a double cup win is worth celebrating not like we have many other reasons

That was 1991. I was at both the cup finals as a kid. Best memory though was the 4 nil win at Tyncastle. Against Dundee utd in the semi final played them off the park that day, sea of sun hats in the aberdeen end looked great.

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For all the fans who are too young to have seen Gillhaus..... believe all the hype, he was fucking sensational. I remember one particular game against the Tims when i was a ball boy, he ripped Paul Elliot, an England international, a new arsehole. Too think we signed a dutch international for the best part of a million quid...how times have changed.

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For all the fans who are too young to have seen Gillhaus..... believe all the hype, he was fucking sensational. I remember one particular game against the Tims when i was a ball boy, he ripped Paul Elliot, an England international, a new arsehole. Too think we signed a dutch international for the best part of a million quid...how times have changed.

 

 

He was not an England international.

 

What about Williem Van der Ark, how did you rate him

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Disagree. Winners=Champions of the league. Anything else domestic is window dressing. Good team, not great.

 

"an official commemoration in the form of AFC holding an official event, a la Gothenburg Greats".

 

No thanks, not for me.

 

You're more than entitled to your opinion, but I think that team should be remembered in some way. Had we not lost the league on the last day of the following season, I am convinced we would have seen the dawn of a new era in our history and Scottish Football's. I'm not suggesting European trophy winners, but by hell we would have given anyone in Britain a right game back them and more than held our own in a Europa league format (take note, JC worshippers).

 

Some of the best football of our history was played between 1988-91 and I would like to see some kind of commemoration, even if only a minor one or a commemorative DVD.

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