These blogs, or this book if it gets that far, are dedicated to the two greatest men I have known - both big football men and both now sadly no longer with us - George Willis Donkin and 'The Inspector' Graeme Ogilvie. Much more about those two guys much later.
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On Saturday I started a journey (sounds very management / big society speak .. everyone is on a journey) to Hampden Park in May 2013 for tthe Scottish FA Cup Final. In the Scottish Cup the only non-league teams who can enter are the SFA member clubs or the Scottish Junior teams who win their three 'Super Leagues' or win the Scottish Junior Cup. So a nonentity Junior team such as Penicuik Athletic can only get into the Scottish Cup if they win the Junior Cup. So we start the story on Saturday the 1st October 2011 in my home town of Penicuik where the local team take on the might of Glenrothes in the first round of the SJFA Cup 2011-12. If all goes according to plan then the Cuiky will be playing Hearts in the Scottish FA Cup Final in May 2013. Probably won't happen ... but whatever I will be there ... because the aim of this 'journey' is to start with the Penicuik Athletic v Glenrothes game and to follow the winners until they get knocked out ... and then to follow the team that knocks out the winners until they get knocked out ... and so and so on and so on .. get the idea ? ... I hope so.
OK .. hi everyone .. or someone depending on who is reading ...
On Saturday I started a journey (sounds very management / big society speak .. everyone is on a journey) to Hampden Park in May 2013 for tthe Scottish FA Cup Final. In the Scottish Cup the only non-league teams who can enter are the SFA member clubs or the Scottish Junior teams who win their three 'Super Leagues' or win the Scottish Junior Cup. So a nonentity Junior team such as Penicuik Athletic can only get into the Scottish Cup if they win the Junior Cup. So we start the story on Saturday the 1st October 2011 in my home town of Penicuik where the local team take on the might of Glenrothes in the first round of the SJFA Cup 2011-12. If all goes according to plan then the Cuiky will be playing Hearts in the Scottish FA Cup Final in May 2013. Probably won't happen ... but whatever I will be there ... because the aim of this 'journey' is to start with the Penicuik Athletic v Glenrothes game and to follow the winners until they get knocked out ... and then to follow the team that knocks out the winners until they get knocked out ... and so and so on and so on .. get the idea ? ... I hope so.
Penicuik Athletic 1 Glenrothes 1
Penicuik were the better side and opened the scoring halfway through the second half when captain John Harvey scored from close range after an outrageous bit of skill from Dean Knight had created the chance. Running into the box and being tracked by a defender who gave Knight seemingly nowhere to go the Penicuik winger essayed a bit of Ronaldo like footwork that all of a sudden put him in enough space to lay the goalscoring chance on a plate for Harvey. Well, not much laid on a plate - a knife and fork were provided too. Into stoppage time and with the Penicuik team running down the clock by fannying around near the corner flag the 'Glens' got posession and got the ball up the park. A seemingly innocuous cross from the right was then palmed into his own net by the Penicuik keeper Bald who apparently (I heard second hand a week later) was caught in two minds as to whether to catch or palm over the bar - he did neither. From my vantage point admittedly 100 yards away it looked like a ver bad own goal.
Penicuik Athletic v Glenrothes finished 1-1 so it is off to Glenrothes for the replay on Saturday the 8th October.
Journey Miles 2
Total Road to Hampden Miles 2
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