Blue4evr Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 1 hour ago, dblair said: https://dundeefc.co.uk/news/alan-gilzean-1938-2018/ Top Overall Scorer – 169 goals in 190 competitive games. Top Scorer In One Season – 52 goals in 1963/64. Top European Scorer – 9 goals. Top Scorer In One Game – 7 goals against Queen of the South. in 1962. (Record shared with Bert Juliussen) Top Successive Scorer – 7 goals in 7 consecutive games. (January 1st to February 1st 1964) Top Hat-Trick Scorer- 17 hat-tricks. Should surely add to that, that he scored 4 goals in a famous 5-1 win at Ibrox against a top Rangers team. Has that ever been repeated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted 8 July 2018 Author Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 If we were to name one of the stands at the new stadium the “Alan Gilzean Stand,” wouldn’t it just be fitting to have Spurs as the opposition as we christen the new home and pay tribute to a legend of both clubs. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCDee Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 Terrible news. Never saw him play or met him but still feel so sad that we've lost our greatest ever player. Renaming the main stand for our final couple of seasons at Dens would be a fitting tribute indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc The Dee Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 RIP Alan Gilzean.... too young to have seen him play but have heard stories and seen footage of just how great he was! His goal scoring stats for us are unreal and unlikely to ever be matched! Read the book “In search of Alan Gilzean” a few years back.... definitely worth reading! Proper Dundee FC legend 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshoredee Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 Another bit of our history gone....from a personal point of view another link to my old fella gone as well....he raved about Gillie.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfcman Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 1 hour ago, Blue4evr said: Should surely add to that, that he scored 4 goals in a famous 5-1 win at Ibrox against a top Rangers team. Has that ever been repeated? I doubt it and A Rangers fan of my acquaintance is still hurting about it.Quite how that back heel flick for his third or fourth works I still cant figure out-a bit like Alan cousins trademark double shuffle-sheer magic.I was not at the Ibrox match but still remember waiting and waiting for the result coming through on the old BBC Teleprinter . BBC news Scotland did a short but incompetent piece tonight and particularly I did not miss that they showed some (very porr quality) footage from the Killie semi final at Ibrox in 1964,a 4-0 win against an excellent Killie team,a performance which I have felt was one of the most clinical and brilliant.I did not know BBC had that footage since while some has survived a lot was destroyed . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny O Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 Yes naming a stand at Dens Park would be a Great idea. Maybe a bity soon to think about stuff like this but I was hoping that Dundee FC will give a proper and fitting tribute at a Premier League match (preferably if possible a TV match) and not at a League Cup match in front of a smallish crowd. Another idea on a smaller scale would be a Commemorative Shirt (My thoughts would be.... that recently talked about shirt in the "All White" kit that Dundee famously wore against AC Milan in 63 at Dens) The money from sales could go to charity etc. Anyway just couple of ideas ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Campbell's Ghost Posted 8 July 2018 Report Share Posted 8 July 2018 41 minutes ago, dfcman said: I doubt it and A Rangers fan of my acquaintance is still hurting about it.Quite how that back heel flick for his third or fourth works I still cant figure out-a bit like Alan cousins trademark double shuffle-sheer magic.I was not at the Ibrox match but still remember waiting and waiting for the result coming through on the old BBC Teleprinter . BBC news Scotland did a short but incompetent piece tonight and particularly I did not miss that they showed some (very porr quality) footage from the Killie semi final at Ibrox in 1964,a 4-0 win against an excellent Killie team,a performance which I have felt was one of the most clinical and brilliant.I did not know BBC had that footage since while some has survived a lot was destroyed . seen that a few times but the bit they showed was all wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islaydarkblue Posted 9 July 2018 Report Share Posted 9 July 2018 1 hour ago, Billy Campbell's Ghost said: seen that a few times but the bit they showed was all wrong. What do you expect from BBC Glasgow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted 9 July 2018 Author Report Share Posted 9 July 2018 My young lad asked Gillie about his time at Spurs and if he’d ever played at Wembley. The look on his face when Gillie said, with a huge grin and immense pride I might add, that he had indeed graced Wembley and was 3 for 3, winning an FA Cup and 2 League Cups is something that will live with me forever, utterly star struck he was and hanging on every word. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimM Posted 9 July 2018 Report Share Posted 9 July 2018 Last night I went over old match reports. Here is sample. 6 first half goals v Q.O.S. 4 Second half goals v Rangers. 4 Second half goals v Hibs at Easter Road in 0-4 win that included a 20 minute hat trick. A 15 minute second half hat trick against Raith in a 2-4 win at Starks park -after being two down at half time Gillie was a goal machine at Dens.Phenomenal.What a player he was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueboy Posted 9 July 2018 Report Share Posted 9 July 2018 10 hours ago, offshoredee said: Another bit of our history gone....from a personal point of view another link to my old fella gone as well....he raved about Gillie.... Yes it made me think of my dad too. But he never took me to Dens! Said I wasn't interested but if he'd taken me just once.... I was 10 in 1962. Ah well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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