Glory Days Of Gold

Episode 87 - Glory Days of Gold (Habit Forming)

Welcome to Episode 87 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents, except this episode sees the Fab Four reunited together in Scotland for the first time since the podcast began.

Week four of the new Scottish League 2 season is done and dusted and East Fife continued their winning ways with a dramatic stoppage time win at home to Forfar Athletic to make it back to back victories and take the black and gold up to second place in the league table.

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Gordon delve into the match, the main talking points coming out of it, and what we can learn about the team a month into the new season. What will continue the Fife's good start to the campaign? An experienced midfield veteran and a big brassy centre back would fit the bill, but the young guns are more than holding their own just now as Stevie Crawford looks to build on the confidence that comes from making winning a habit.

We chat about all of that and take a look at the comings and going down Bayview way this past week, including partaking in the club's new hospitality package, as well as a look around some of the other action that caught our eye this weekend in the lower leagues of Scottish football.

Episode 86 - Glory Days of Gold (Irritable Vowel Syndrome)

Welcome to Episode 86 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

Week three of the new Scottish League 2 season is now in the history books and East Fife have become road warriors, recording their second straight away win and even keeping that rarity for them that is an ultra clean sheet, following a hard fought 1-0 victory at Albion Rovers, where they more than rode their luck and had a string of top saves from Allan Fleming to thank for the three points..

Michael, Lee, and Gordon delve into the match and the main talking points coming out of it. What can we read into the start of the new season? Probably nothing much just yet, but that won't stop us!

Is this a sign of things to come? Good away, poor at home. Can they only beat teams that begin with a vowel? Or is it more that they've got the beating of poor teams and despite all of their flaws, East Fife aren't the worst team in the league and will pick up enough points along the way to be mid-table dwellers? Can they be more and what do they need to get them to that point?

We chat about all of that and take a look at the comings and going down Bayview way this past week.

Episode 85 - Glory Days of Gold (Back To Earth With A Bump)

Welcome to Episode 85 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

Where did all the good times go? It seems like no time at all that we were singing that we were top of the league. Riding the crest of the wave that was the opening day win up at Elgin. Fast forward seven days and Fife fans came crashing back down to earth with a bump after a 3-0 home defeat to new kids on the block Bonnyrigg Rose.

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Gordon delve into the match, the main talking points coming out of it, and ponder which of the two results so far are likely to be more indicative of the rest of the season to come.

Do we have the depth to deal with injuries? Is the way to get past our young side just to bully them? And will the price of admission prove a costly mistake as the season goes on? The guys chat about all of this and more and take a look around the weekend's action in the lower leagues.

Episode 84 - Glory Days of Gold (Plan The Parade!)

Welcome to Episode 84 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

The new Scottish league season kicked off at the weekend and East Fife got off to a winning start with a 3-1 win at Elgin that sees them at the top of Scottish League 2 one game in. We shouldn't get carried away. But we will of course because we're football fans!

Lee, Doug, and Gordon delve into the match, how the team is looking early doors, and what can we expect when they go up against a much tougher task against Bonnyrigg next week?

Episode 83 - Glory Days of Gold (Long Road Out Of Hell)

Welcome to Episode 83 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

It feels like no time since the last season wrapped up, but we're just a couple of days away from East Fife's 2022/23 season getting underway in League Cup action. It's been a close season of turnover down Bayview way, with nearly 20 players moving on and just a quarter of that number coming in.

Is East Fife's squad strong enough and deep enough to earn an immediate return to League 1? Where do they still need to strengthen and do they have the money and the lure to do so? What should fans realistic expectations be for the season ahead? How are things looking off the pitch?

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Gordon delve into all of that and more, plus give their early predictions as to how they see Scottish League 2 playing out.

Episode 82 - Glory Days of Gold (Tash Tales with special guest Dickie Gibb)

Welcome to Episode 82 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

We're back with our first podcast of the close season. We promised you some more of our player interviews and we kick things off with a 1990's Bayview legend - Dickie Gibb.

Dickie chats to us about his long career, the good times and bad times at Bayview, winning promotion under Stevie Archibald, the relegation season that followed, the characters at the club, winning two Scottish Junior Cups after leaving the black and gold, and much more. There's lots of fun stories along the way, like how many jerseys did he get after the Scottish Cup game at Ibrox in 1997 and how?!

Michael and Lee also look at East Fife's quiet build to the new season in terms of player signings and chat about the ticket prices for next season's League Two campaign.

Episode 81 - Glory Days of Gold (An Absolute Horror)

Welcome to Episode 81 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

The 2021/22 season is over, for East Fife at least, and I think we can all be thankful for that. This episode is our official end of season show, although it feels like we could have picked any episode for the last six months or so to have it!

We look back at how the campaign fizzled out, hand out our second annual awards, discuss the club's list of announced departures, and try and be positive for next season. Things need to change, but will they?

Episode 80 - Glory Days of Gold (Down Down Deeper And Down)

Welcome to Episode 80 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

It finally happened and the only real surprise is that we held on for so long. East Fife are officially relegated and Scottish League 2 is the new home for the black and gold. Will it be a fleeting visit or should we get ready for a long stay in the bottom flight?

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Aaron look over the loss to Falkirk that sealed their fate, the season that was, and look ahead to what the club need to do now to make sure we're not in with the also-rans of Scottish football for longer than we have to be.

Episode 79 - Glory Days of Gold (Coffin Nailed Shut)

Welcome to Episode 79 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast.

When the going got tough for East Fife these past few weeks, the tough could have got going, but instead the black and gold showed what they were really made of and crumbled liked a cheap custard cream in a hot cup of tea, with no goals and no points from three crucial, almost must win, matches.

The coffin has been prepared and the nails are now firmly in one hand of the Scottish League One undertaker and there's a hammer in the other. The guys delve into the latest loss to Airdrie, try and work out where it's all gone wrong this season, debate which of the current squad we actually want back for a League 2 campaign, and try and come up with some realistic signings we could try and bring in.

Episode 78 - Glory Days of Gold (Game Over?)

Welcome to Episode 78 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

East Fife fell to a 3-0 defeat to Alloa in a crunch game at Bayview on Saturday, and with other results not going the Fifers way, it's looking bleak at the bottom of Scottish League One.

Michael, Doug, and Gordon are back to chat about the main talking points coming out of the match and where that leaves East Fife now in their quest for survival. Having been blanked in three of their last four games and taken just 10 of the last 39 points available to them, is it game over?

Plus we look at some of the other talking points around lower league Scottish football and chat World Cup qualifying.