Glory Days Of Gold

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?

Episode 41 - Glory Days of Gold (Snow Fun)

Welcome to Episode 41 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 been another busy week for East Fife which has put supporters through a gamut of emotions after a draw, a defeat, and finally a victory. Four points earned or five points dropped? With the league table tighter than a gnat's chuff, every point that goes a-begging could be crucial with just two games remaining before the split.

We chat about all the big talking points coming out of the games against Partick Thistle, Dumbarton, and Forfar, look at where that leaves the team, what it could mean for this season and next, and a lot, lot more.

Plus Bear's Den continue as our new Artists of the Month and we bring you the latest single from Fife fan, and friend of the show, PG Ciarletta.

Episode 40 - Glory Days of Gold (The Romance Has Gone)

Welcome to Episode 40 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.

How much football can you take in the space of eight days? Four East Fife games and two Scotland games, with mixed performances, certainly tests you! But we have it all covered in this week's show. In league play, we look at the Fife's poor showing in the loss to Montrose on Tuesday and the bounce back win over Clyde two days later, which has seen the club move within touching distance of the playoffs. But if league success is on, the cup dream is over after a Saturday afternoon of heartbreak in the Scottish Cup against Morton.

We chat about all of that and the big talking points coming out of the games, plus Bear's Den continue as our new Artists of the Month.

Episode 39 - Glory Days of Gold (Cove Idiots)

Welcome to Episode 39 of Glory Days of Gold.

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.

After easing back to play with a comfortable win over Clyde last week, there was a far sterner test for East Fife this week, with fellow promotion chasers Cove Rangers. There may have been no goals but there were certainly a lot of talking points coming out of the game and Lee, Doug, and Gordon have you covered with it all in this episode.

All of that, plus Bear's Den continue as our new Artists of the Month.

Episode 38 - Glory Days of Gold (Back With A Bang - East Fife beat Clyde, Leagues 1 and 2 return, fixture madness, new Fife loanees, Old Firm colt teams)

Welcome to Episode 38 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.

Scottish lower league football is back and it's made all the better by a 3-1 East Fife away win to kick things off and keep the team unbeaten in 2021. We look at the road to get there, the new additions to the squad, the fixture list madness, the possibility of Old Firm colt teams being added to League Two, and we delve into the highs and lows from the Fife's first away win of the season in our latest Fife Fanzone.

All of that, plus Bear's Den are our new Artists of the Month and Rudebeard feature in this week's Wavelength with their new song about the Scottish national team.

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

01.44: East Fife and Scottish Football News of the Week - Leagues 1 and 2 return, new Fife loanees, crazy fixture list, Old Firm colt teams
32.50: Artists of the Month - Bearsden - Above The Clouds Of Pompeii
38.14: Fife Fanzone - Clyde 1 East Fife 3
78.58: Wavelength - Rudebeard - Toepokes and Tragedies

Episode 37 - Glory Days of Gold (Peter, Paul, and Mary From Methilhill with specials guest Peter and Paul McQuade)

Welcome to Episode 37 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.

We're back, and so is League 1 football in Scotland by the looks of it, so to celebrate we thought we'd bring you this week's episode a little bit earlier than usual as we chat about when we might see East Fife back in action and what the remainder of the season may look like.

Our feature interview this episode is with a father and son duo who both pulled on the famous black and gold jerseys, Peter and Paul McQuade.

Peter played for the club in the late 60s and early 70s, winning promotion with the team and was part of the last ever era where East Fife played in the top flight of Scottish football. We chat about those heady times, his career in the game, and hear some great stories along the way from the infamous stolen televisions to turning out in front of tens of thousands at the likes of Ibrox and Parkhead, and is he really Kevin Bridges' dad?!

Paul played one season for East Fife in 2011 and talks about following in his father's footsteps to join the club, his career as a footballer, and the injuries that sadly forced him to hang up the boots at an early age. Plus we find out how his debut at Bayview was thrown into confusion by a late showing manager and we hear some fun dressing room tales.

All of that, plus Billy Bragg features in this week's Wavelength.

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

00.04: League 1 football is coming back
15.44: Peter and Paul McQuade interview
145.59: Wavelength - Billy Bragg - God's Football

Episode 36 - Glory Days of Gold (Waka Waka with special guest Kevin Fotheringham)

Welcome to Episode 36 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.

Our feature interview this episode is with a Fifer who came through the youth ranks at Rangers, spent two seasons at Bayview, winning a League Championship in the process, and has gone into management now that he's hung up his boots - Kevin Fotheringham.

We chat with Fozzy about his time at East Fife, his lengthy career in the senior game, making the move into management, and lots more. There's a lot of great stories along the way, as we ask him about that infamous Arbroath team photo, he shares some new info on the Irish ferry incident, and find out if he really does have a Raith Rovers tattoo!

Will East Fife be back on the pitch next month? If so, what will the remainder of the season look like? And just how are the club's finances during these trying times? We chat about all of that and talk to Associate Director Liam Anderson.

All of that, plus we talk going back in time to watch famous matches, football kits, Cameron Barnes continues as our Artist of the Month, and the legend that is Pete Townsend features in this week's Wavelength.

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

04.42: East Fife's finances during the current lockdown - featuring a chat with Associate Director Liam Anderson
18.22: Kevin Fotheringham interview
120.30: Artists of the Month - Cameron Barnes - Just Smile
124.30: What games would you go back in time in the TARDIS to see?
141.36: Wavelength - Pete Townsend - Football Fugue