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With the talk of Hampden,relocation,etc,what are your memories of the once great stadium?

Hampden experience.
I will always remember my first hampden experience,as a teenager,it 
was scotland v england in 1974, 2-0.
I was just a young laddie fae Dundee,going with my auld man
and his mates ,in the back of an old transit,it was decked oot with
a table in the middle,with a couple of wooden benches to sit on,
a kerry oot and a pack of cards.would get the jail for this nowadays.(i was too young to drink,of course.)
Pretty much what i remember about the van was the amount of stops for a pish.
However,when we arrived and got parked up,we walked up with the masses to hampden.
The anticipation i felt that day has never been equalled,we were at the 
rangers (now deceased) end,and as i made my way up the steps,there was this strange noise,i had never experienced before,i've always described
it as a hubub,a drone ,a constant buzz.
Walking up these steps seemed to take forever,i wanted to see what it was all about.
On reaching the top,i poked my head through the opening and got completely blown away.The mass of colour and noise was amazing.
Of course it was standing in these days ,even though the celtic end was open,the atmosphere was electric,the colour ,lion rampants,and ,of course
we won 2-0.94000 that day.
As far as the match went,usual as nowadays,couldn't see a thing.
I know nowadays this atmosphere will never again be matched
I am just glad i experienced it,and of course the team was no too bad as well.
ps.i also managed to get to the scotland v czechoslovakia game which was also great .
Anyone else got memories of hampden?

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My first visit to Hampden was 27th May 1989 for what was (I think) the last ever Rous Cup game between Scotland and England. I was only 13 at the time and until that point the only decent sized grounds I'd been at were Dens and Tannadice.

Two things stand out for me... Feeling slightly terrified to be standing in the terracing along with 60,000+ others. It really didn't feel very safe with me being dwarved amid all the crowd surges.

The other thing I remember is being outside the ground after the game when English fans charged towards us before police on horseback appeared from nowhere to prevent what seemed like an inevitably nasty clash.

Then there was the Coca-Cola Cup final which was devastating. For some reason I wasn't prepared for us losing that game.

Then there were the later Scottish Cup games. The 1-0 win over ICT was great in that I got to see Dundee score at the national stadium but the overriding emotion that day was relief that we didn't fuck it up. The final that year was a fantastic experience even if we didn't get the trophy. The less said about the Gretna game the better.

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Sadly I've only been to two games at Hampden with Dundee. Nemsadze's goal against ICT was a good moment. The final against Rangers was good until the final whistle.

Been to my fair share of Scotland games which has given me my more memorable celebrations. Scotland seem to score a hell of a lot of last minute goals (in comparison to Dundee anyway) which always results in wild scenes. A few in the last campaign alone.

I remember us getting a 97th minute winner against Liechtenstein a few years ago. Thinking back the celebrations were completely over the top considering it was only a part time we were beating.

Best Hampden moment has to be the Griffiths free kicks against England. Crazy scenes. Summed up why football can be so emotional. One minute you are on the biggest high ever only for moments later your high to be shattered.

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Probably more visits to Hampden (internationals) than I can remember, but easier to start with Dundee's visits.....

The 1963/64 cup final....I was 11, still in P7, so it was the main stand enclosure for me, my cousin & our fathers. We'd been to all the rounds except the first one up at Fraserburgh (6-3) and had already seen Dundee score 24 in 5 games....it had to be our name on it, surely. I'd watched several games from Hampden on tv & had an idea how big it was, but to be down at the trackside wall, looking up at that wall of people....120,982....an astonishing sight. How an additional 16,000 squeezed in for our 1951/52 final with Motherwell I couldn't imagine.....then there were the two 149,000 crowds against England in 1937 & 39. Sardines had it comfortable in a tin, by comparison! Rangers scored, and the entire place erupted....a minute later, we equalised, and the same thing happened....who, other than mothers/grannies/wives was still in Dundee? Unfortunately, our day was ruined by 2 late Rangers goals.

I was back for the LC final with Celtic in 1968....5-3 Celtic, a classic end-to-end game, but the Lisbon Lions were just too good. There were a few semis with them too, all defeats, so not retained in my memories. I was unable to get to the 1973 final, something to do with our amateur team, yet I'm sure the Midlands cancelled all games to let players go to the final. The 1995 LC final was a major anti-climax, we had a great young team, but nowhere near strong enough for Aberdeen. 2003 was much better, and I still feel that with Novo instead of Burchill, we'd have won.

I think my first Scotland game was Scotland v Russia 1967 , a 'challenge match' (aka friendly) just a month after we became unofficial world champions with the 3-2 win at Wembley. It was mostly the same team, but sadly too many of our players had already 'gone on holiday'. The brief video is worth watching for Gemmell's o.g., and Russia's outstanding second. The highlight for me was witnessing the great Lev Yashin's final appearance for the USSR....he remains the only keeper to have been awarded the Ballon d'Or, and featured in every Fifa/Uefa 'best team', including the 'World Team of the 20th Century'....and he was also awarded the 'Order of Lenin' by the Soviet government. He always wore black, and seemed a giant with an amazing reach (yet was 'just' 6' 2.5"), nicknamed the black panther, or by some the black spider as he appeared at times to have 4 pairs of arms to save shots. He saved 151 penalties, still a world record. He was one of the first keepers to start attacks by throwing the ball accurately over great distances, and in that Hampden game, he threw the ball out to his right winger's feet, 20 yards inside Scotland's half....just like a Jim Baxter pass.

The most memorable international, though, was the 1973 decisive WC qualifier with Czechoslovakia...rolling 'refilled' empty beer cans out the back door of the car as we crawled along the approach roads to Glasgow, Montford's bar before the game, packed, the flags, the songs....into the Mount Florida (covered) end & an incredible level of noise from 100,000....the stunned silence when the Czechs scored....the roar when Jim Holton outjumped the keeper for the equaliser at the Celtic end...the rising level of noise as Scotland attacked the Rangers end 2nd half....Bremner hits the inside of the post & the ball rolls along the line, the ball's crossed back in, Jordan's off the ground, and the place erupted....never heard a noise like it since.... Scotland 2 - 0 Czechoslovakia (classic Arthur Montford commentary). 

 

 

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