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 68 - Glory Days of Gold (New Year, Same Old East Fife with guest Liam Anderson)
Episode 67 - Glory Days of Gold (Not A Christmas Cracker)
Episode 66 - Glory Days of Gold (2021 Christmas Special featuring Steve Archibald, Ryan Gauld, and Peter McQuade)
Episode 65 - Glory Days of Gold (In The Craw’s Nest)
Episode 64 - Glory Days of Gold (End Of An Era)
Episode 63 - Glory Days of Gold (Rough Diamonds)
Episode 62 - Glory Days of Gold (Slowly Slowly Catchy Monkey)
Episode 61 - Glory Days of Gold (Nothing To Shout About)
Episode 60 - Glory Days of Gold (Something To Shout About)
Episode 59 - Glory Days of Gold (Hung, Drawn, and Quartered)
Episode 58 - Glory Days of Gold (Smashed and Grabbed)
Episode 57 - Glory Days of Gold (Déjà Bloody Vu)
Episode 56 - Glory Days of Gold (There‘s Been A Murder)
Episode 55 - Glory Days of Gold (99 Problems But A Fish Ain't One)
Episode 54 - Glory Days of Gold (Mowed Down)
Episode 53 - Glory Days of Gold (What Time Is It?)
Episode 52 - Glory Days of Gold (Stung By Wasps)
Episode 51 - Glory Days of Gold (Legs Like A Spider)
Episode 50 - Glory Days of Gold (Season of the Which?)
Episode 49 - Glory Days of Gold (The Dream Is Over)
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