Glory Days Of Gold

Episode 51 - Glory Days of Gold (Legs Like A Spider)

Welcome to Episode 51 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

Lee, Michael, and Gordon are joined by Scott Young this week to look at the start of East Fife's league campaign, a 1-1 draw at home to Queens Park. How did they look in their first league outing? Was a home point a good result or a wasted opportunity after going ahead early? Is there enough squad depth to be in anything than a relegation battle this season?

We chat about all the highlights and lowpoints, plus we look at the lack of signings down Bayview way and whether that might be remedied soon and we look at some of the more fun aspects from this past weekend of Scottish football.

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Episode 50 - Glory Days of Gold (Season of the Which?)

Welcome to Episode 50 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast.

It's our golden anniversary episode and we have a brand new season to preview in it. Wonderful! Or is it?

Just what East Fife are we going to get this season? Preseason saw a lack of any real test, when that came in the League Cup group games, things have not gone well. No wins, no points, only two goals scored, two defeats to teams in a lower league, and a goal difference of minus seven. Optimism is hard to find right now if we're being brutally honest.

Lee, Michael, Doug, and Gordon look at the close season comings and goings, the extension of manager Darren Young, the disappointing League Cup performances, the lack of real difference makers in the team, and their hopes and fears for the season ahead.

Is there any money to strengthen the squad? How many starters are we needing to bring in to compete? Why has Player of the Year Ryan Wallace seemingly quit the club? Are there loan deals on the horizon? Have we been left behind by the rest of the division? Are there any positives we can take right now? So many questions!!!

There's lot of football chat, plus we bring you the latest single from East Fife fan, and friend of the show, PG Ciarletta.

Episode 49 - Glory Days of Gold (The Dream Is Over)

Welcome to Episode 49 of Glory Days of Gold. The fourth, and what is now sadly our final, of our Euro 2020 specials.

The dream is over. Scotland returned to a major tournament for the first time in 23 years and it was like we had never left, as they failed to make it out of the group stages again and all the hopes were left lying in tatters following a 3-1 loss to a much better Croatia side, all made even worse by not doing it on home soil at Hampden.

So while there's pride at the performance against England, and some fighting spirit shown in all three games, ultimately we struggled from not having a deadly finisher that could take the chances that were being created. Was that the main difference between qualifying or not or was it Scotland's shape, tactics, and team selections that let them down? How big a loss was Billy Gilmour? And were we just all swept up in the emotional rollercoaster of just being there and simply outplayed?

Kenny Deuchar joins Lee, Doug, and Gordon to look at all of that and more, and ponder what's next for the Scotland national team and who should be the players to try and get us to Qatar next year?

Episode 48 - Glory Days of Gold (Who The F**k's Jamie O'Hara?)

Welcome to Episode 48 of Glory Days of Gold. The third of our Euro 2020 specials.

After the doom and gloom of Scotland's defeat to the Czech Republic, we're all cock-a-hoop now after an impressive performance, and earning a point, against England at Wembley on Friday. All that said, Scotland have still got to find the back of the net, but their fate lies firmly in their hands going into the last group game on Tuesday.

We're joined again by Dr Goals Kenny Deuchar to pick over the bones of the game and chat about the task ahead, as Croatia stand between Scotland and qualifying for the knockout stage of a major tournament for the first time.

Plus we look ahead to the big game with the Auld Enemy at Wembley on Friday. Are we on a hiding to nothing or can we shock the world? Can we afford to be attack minded or is being defensive our only chance? And who should play in this one? Are the guys optimistic for this one?

Episode 47 - Glory Days of Gold (Bounced By The Czechs with special guest Kenny Deuchar)

Welcome to Episode 47 of Glory Days of Gold. The second of our Euro 2020 specials.

After all the excitement, all the expectations, all the enthusiasm after a 23 year wait, it was almost as if it was yesterday that Scotland were at a major tournament as all the hurt and disappointment came flooding back with a 2-0 defeat by the Czech Republic at Hampden on Monday afternoon.

We're joined again by Dr Goals Kenny Deuchar to pick over the bones of the game and chat about the nature of the defeat, the team selection, Steve Clarke's managerial style, the mentality of the Scottish fans, and a lot more.

Plus we look ahead to the big game with the Auld Enemy at Wembley on Friday. Are we on a hiding to nothing or can we shock the world? Can we afford to be attack minded or is being defensive our only chance? And who should play in this one? Are the guys optimistic for this one?

Episode 46 - Glory Days of Gold (Euros Fever with special guest Kenny Deuchar)

Welcome to Episode 46 of Glory Days of Gold. The first of our Euros 2020 specials.

We've come down with a fever, but don't worry, it isn't the dreaded 'rona, it's just Euros fever baby! Scotland's men are back at their first major finals since the 1998 World Cup. Are we all being swept away by the emotion of it all or will it be the same so near, but yet so far from the Scots and the inevitable heartbreak that follows?

However it ends up, we're going to be with you every step of the way and we're being joined for the month by King Kenny himself, Dr Goals, Kenny Deuchar.

In this preview episode, we look ahead to Scotland's chances, pick our best starting XI, and look at the teams in our way. Plus we make some picks for tournament winners, ponder who will be the surprise packages, who will lead the scoring charts, and much more football fun.

Plus we kick off a month of Scotland Euros 2020 football songs with Dundee band The Cundeez as they encourage us to get our kilts on and our taps aff.

Episode 45 - Glory Days of Gold (End Of Season Awards Extravaganza!)

Welcome to Episode 45 of Glory Days of Gold.

Recorded across two continents, Glory Days of Gold brings you a regular dose of East Fife FC and Scottish football chat, with a splattering of interesting interviews, fun segments, and music thrown in along the way.

It's the end of the season as we know, but do we feel fine? Well, we certainly feel happy that it's finally all over and we've been put out of our misery. We look at the stuttering end, where it leaves us moving forward, and which of the current squad would we keep around, amongst other things in this episode. Plus we look around who might be staying and/or joining us in League 1 next season and what that might mean for our chances.

But the bulk of this episode is our end of season awards extravaganza! We chat about out nominations for a slew of awards, pick our winners, and reminisce about the season that was. There's the traditional player and young player of the season, goal of the season, and some more offbeat ones like worst opposition fans. Have a listen to see who won what and let us know your nominations.

Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:

02.07: John Sludden and Walter Borthwick RIP
07.45: East Fife and Scottish League 1 chat - the season is finally over!
46.00: Fife Bands In Focus - The Receiving End - He's The Man
52.16: The Glory Days Of Gold End Of Season Awards
133.30: Wavelength - AJ Tracey - False 9

Episode 44 - Glory Days of Gold (Another Fine Mess - East Fife's Clyde Covid controversy, David Cox and abuse in football, Club 42 v pyramid battle)

Welcome to Episode 44 of Glory Days of Gold.

Recorded across two continents, Glory Days of Gold brings you a regular dose of East Fife FC and Scottish football chat, with a splattering of interesting interviews, fun segments, and music thrown in along the way.

Silly us. We thought with East Fife's season wrapping up, with no meaningful games left to play, that it would be a pretty quiet week down Bayview way. What on earth would we talk about on the show? How wrong we were.

It's been a week of farce and shame in lower league Scottish football and it all started at Broadwood on Tuesday evening when East Fife refused to play their game against Clyde after a positive test in the Bully Wee camp was revealed minutes before kick off. We delve into the farcical scenes at the match, the subsequent fall out, and the ridiculous fine handed out to East Fife, in a situation that did that rare thing of basically uniting Scottish football fans.

Sadly East Fife's season just doesn't seem to want to end. We take a brief look at the game that did go ahead this week against Peterhead, try to muster up some enthusiasm for the season run-in, and look ahead to the exciting battle between Brora Rangers, Kelty Hearts, and Brechin City for a place in League 2.

But we get into more serious issues to end the show as we look at abuse in football, both on and off the pitch, with the unsavoury incident around David Cox as the catalyst. We talk mental health, the abuse Cox says made him retire from the game, and question whether this is going to start a conversation about mental health issues or make players less likely to come out and talk about it. And as the game is uniting about social media abuse this weekend, is that just posturing or can we really see real change in that regard and how would it come about?

All of that plus our regular music and fun sections. Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:

01.42: East Fife's Clyde Covid Controversy and farcical fines
39.57: Fife Bands In Focus - The Ghost Train - Hope and Glory
44.25: Trying, and failing, to care about the season run-in
59.48: Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive? - Euan Donaldson
62.40: Brora, Kelty, and Brechin - the battle for a league place begins
73.27: David Cox, mental health, and abuse in football and online
99.30: Wavelength - I, Ludicrous - Bring On The Substitute

Episode 43 - Glory Days of Gold (Staying Put - What's next for East Fife, Dumbarton beaten, Superleague shambles, football films)

Welcome to Episode 43 of Glory Days of Gold.

Recorded across two continents, Glory Days of Gold brings you a regular dose of East Fife FC and Scottish football chat, with a splattering of interesting interviews, fun segments, and music thrown in along the way.

East Fife's season may be all over bar the shouting but we still have a lot to talk about on this episode.

We ponder what's next for the Fife. How do we take that next step? Is Darren Young the man to take us there? What should this offseason look like and are we where we realistically should be? We delve into all of that and a lot more, plus pick over the bones of the team's win over Dumbarton on Saturday.

Away from Bayview, we talk about the hypocrisy and the shambles of the Superleague, chat about some of our favourite football films to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Gregory's Girl, and Halftime Oranges are back in Wavelength.

Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:

01.55 What's next for East Fife?
38.00: East Fife back in top four, sorta
68.33: Wavelength - Half Time Oranges - What's The Fuss About Ryan Giggs?
71.38: Superleague shambles and the hypocrisy of it all
89.20: Football films

Episode 42 - Glory Days of Gold (Out Of Jail And All To Play For)

Welcome to Episode 42 of Glory Days of Gold.

Recorded across two continents, Glory Days of Gold brings you a regular dose of East Fife FC and Scottish football chat, with a splattering of interesting interviews, fun segments, and music thrown in along the way.

The Scottish League One season has one game to go before the split for the last four games and East Fife have it all to play for and in their own hands as they get set to face Airdrie on Tuesday.

They're four points off the top, close to securing a playoff place, but they're also very close to dropping into the bottom five. Lee, Doug, and Gordon look at all of that and the narrow win over Peterhead on Saturday in this episode. Can the Fife get it done?