Richard
@vicdon.bsky.social
Not Vic (but I live here), not Don (but I am one). Will write for money, or just for the hell of it. https://richardwatt.ca
Been hunting this for years as the North American version has the wrong name. Anyway, thanks to lukesrecords.com I now have a copy still in its original shrink wrap. Question of the day: did a song on this inspire #BojackHorseman?
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December 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Been hunting this for years as the North American version has the wrong name. Anyway, thanks to lukesrecords.com I now have a copy still in its original shrink wrap. Question of the day: did a song on this inspire #BojackHorseman?
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Christmas is coming, and so are the #OldFirm. 1975-76 might be just like all the other seasons, after all.
Plus: misunderstanding equality for comic effect, why Germans should avoid #Hampden, and flying to Malta to have your gall bladder removed. open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Plus: misunderstanding equality for comic effect, why Germans should avoid #Hampden, and flying to Malta to have your gall bladder removed. open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...
... all the other seasons, to be honest.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Christmas is coming, and so are the #OldFirm. 1975-76 might be just like all the other seasons, after all.
Plus: misunderstanding equality for comic effect, why Germans should avoid #Hampden, and flying to Malta to have your gall bladder removed. open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Plus: misunderstanding equality for comic effect, why Germans should avoid #Hampden, and flying to Malta to have your gall bladder removed. open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
December 1975. Christmas is just around the corner, but #Scotland have one more game to play. On a frozen pitch, with nothing at stake.
In other news, paying your tax in one pound notes.
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In other news, paying your tax in one pound notes.
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Who'd be a journalist?
Or a Scotland manager, for that matter.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
December 1975. Christmas is just around the corner, but #Scotland have one more game to play. On a frozen pitch, with nothing at stake.
In other news, paying your tax in one pound notes.
open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
In other news, paying your tax in one pound notes.
open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Every time I listen to ‘Miles of Aisles’ I convince myself it’s the ultimate #JoniMitchell live album. And it’s spectacular but it’s no ‘Shadows and Light’. I reckon this is the fifth version of it I’ve owned over the years
#JacoPistorius #BassOfDoom
#JacoPistorius #BassOfDoom
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Every time I listen to ‘Miles of Aisles’ I convince myself it’s the ultimate #JoniMitchell live album. And it’s spectacular but it’s no ‘Shadows and Light’. I reckon this is the fifth version of it I’ve owned over the years
#JacoPistorius #BassOfDoom
#JacoPistorius #BassOfDoom
Well, that takes me back. Mind you, in my day a gondola end in Tesco was about as big as it got. #GhostOfChristmasPast #FerreroUK
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Well, that takes me back. Mind you, in my day a gondola end in Tesco was about as big as it got. #GhostOfChristmasPast #FerreroUK
This week in the time machine: Ally MacLeod has turned @afc.co.uk into world-beaters; why low attendances may be down to too much coaching going on, and the @sundaypost.com doctor wrestles with the 'awkward age' open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Happy Christmas; League is (far from) over
Also, I get carried away by a regular Sunday Post feature. Again.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This week in the time machine: Ally MacLeod has turned @afc.co.uk into world-beaters; why low attendances may be down to too much coaching going on, and the @sundaypost.com doctor wrestles with the 'awkward age' open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Of Monsters and Marinello. December 10, 1975 saw the game in hand played, and a couple of trophies handed out. And there’s something in Loch Ness which is definitely not a log. open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Caught up at last
Hibs and Celtic minus the fog, but with added mist. And a monster.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Of Monsters and Marinello. December 10, 1975 saw the game in hand played, and a couple of trophies handed out. And there’s something in Loch Ness which is definitely not a log. open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
This week - the seamless interface between #TheBroons and the big question of "why is no-one watching our shiny new ten-team league when they have no money?"
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Salty Don (@saltydon)
13 weeks after implementing the new ten-team league, are we seriously going to expand it to 12 teams? Also, the missing link between “why is no-one going to the football any more?” and “it costs too ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This week - the seamless interface between #TheBroons and the big question of "why is no-one watching our shiny new ten-team league when they have no money?"
substack.com/@saltydon/no...
substack.com/@saltydon/no...
For this week's midweek post, I have a story to tell involving the much-travelled Scottish striker Jimmy Bone. Also a train hijacking and Andy Gray in the wrong Scotland squad: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Dead rubbers and transferred Bones
Also, what's on the TV tonight?
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December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
For this week's midweek post, I have a story to tell involving the much-travelled Scottish striker Jimmy Bone. Also a train hijacking and Andy Gray in the wrong Scotland squad: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
1975 was a whole different world, part 94...
Smelling salts required in the sports department at @eveningexpress.bsky.social on December 1st 1975, as a "girl sent off - for swearing!"
Tune in Wednesday to see if this story makes in into the next edition of bairnsotherevolution.substack.com
Smelling salts required in the sports department at @eveningexpress.bsky.social on December 1st 1975, as a "girl sent off - for swearing!"
Tune in Wednesday to see if this story makes in into the next edition of bairnsotherevolution.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
1975 was a whole different world, part 94...
Smelling salts required in the sports department at @eveningexpress.bsky.social on December 1st 1975, as a "girl sent off - for swearing!"
Tune in Wednesday to see if this story makes in into the next edition of bairnsotherevolution.substack.com
Smelling salts required in the sports department at @eveningexpress.bsky.social on December 1st 1975, as a "girl sent off - for swearing!"
Tune in Wednesday to see if this story makes in into the next edition of bairnsotherevolution.substack.com
My newly arrived copy of the third #Joni box set is as meticulously crafted as the earlier ones, but I’m happy to report that the troubling cover art for #DonJuansRecklessDaughter has been reimagined. The music remains peerless, of course
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My newly arrived copy of the third #Joni box set is as meticulously crafted as the earlier ones, but I’m happy to report that the troubling cover art for #DonJuansRecklessDaughter has been reimagined. The music remains peerless, of course
Additional items I discovered while researching this weekend's post which I didn't have space for:
Yehudi Menhuin had an electric car in 1975: www.below-the-radar.com/electric-fue...
Yehudi Menhuin had an electric car in 1975: www.below-the-radar.com/electric-fue...
The story of the EFPC Transformer 1 on Below The Radar
An insight into the EFPC Transformer 1, with images, on Below The Radar, the website that goes beyond the motoring mainstream
www.below-the-radar.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Additional items I discovered while researching this weekend's post which I didn't have space for:
Yehudi Menhuin had an electric car in 1975: www.below-the-radar.com/electric-fue...
Yehudi Menhuin had an electric car in 1975: www.below-the-radar.com/electric-fue...
Goals, crime, celebrity assassinations, record shops and Mrs Mops. Just another weekend in the revolutionary world of 1975…
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Goals galore
On a weekend which changed my life
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November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Goals, crime, celebrity assassinations, record shops and Mrs Mops. Just another weekend in the revolutionary world of 1975…
open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Things you learn while chronicling the Scottish Premier Division's inaugural season:
Ross McWhirter and Graham Hill were killed during the same weekend (if you count Thursday evening as part of the weekend) as The Other Records Shop came to Aberdeen and changed my life.
Full details tomorrow
Ross McWhirter and Graham Hill were killed during the same weekend (if you count Thursday evening as part of the weekend) as The Other Records Shop came to Aberdeen and changed my life.
Full details tomorrow
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Things you learn while chronicling the Scottish Premier Division's inaugural season:
Ross McWhirter and Graham Hill were killed during the same weekend (if you count Thursday evening as part of the weekend) as The Other Records Shop came to Aberdeen and changed my life.
Full details tomorrow
Ross McWhirter and Graham Hill were killed during the same weekend (if you count Thursday evening as part of the weekend) as The Other Records Shop came to Aberdeen and changed my life.
Full details tomorrow
What to write about when there are no midweek games? Well, Jackie Stewart and a few other managers you’d forgotten about. Plus #Nessie, obviously. #SPFL #ScottishFootball
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Stocktaking
A quiet midweek allows me to catch up
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November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What to write about when there are no midweek games? Well, Jackie Stewart and a few other managers you’d forgotten about. Plus #Nessie, obviously. #SPFL #ScottishFootball
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Another week, another team top of the Scottish Premier Division. But that's not my primary concern this week in 1975. Should #OorWullie have been cancelled? open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Another week, another league leader
Also, we need to talk about Oor Wullie.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Another week, another team top of the Scottish Premier Division. But that's not my primary concern this week in 1975. Should #OorWullie have been cancelled? open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
I dug out one of my abandoned writing projects yesterday, just to see if it was as bad as I remembered. And - it wasn't. It's a first draft of something I hadn't properly planned, but I kind of like it. editor.reedsy.com/s/mCVYGHr
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November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I dug out one of my abandoned writing projects yesterday, just to see if it was as bad as I remembered. And - it wasn't. It's a first draft of something I hadn't properly planned, but I kind of like it. editor.reedsy.com/s/mCVYGHr
Disaster for Scotland as they fail to qualify; England on the verge of being knocked out, but Wales safely through. A tough World Cup draw rounds off a dismal week…
Not this week; 1975.
Also features a dead fascist and a newspaper ad which sent me into a reverie:
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Not this week; 1975.
Also features a dead fascist and a newspaper ad which sent me into a reverie:
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The reign in Spain
and the pesky "Rumanians"
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November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Disaster for Scotland as they fail to qualify; England on the verge of being knocked out, but Wales safely through. A tough World Cup draw rounds off a dismal week…
Not this week; 1975.
Also features a dead fascist and a newspaper ad which sent me into a reverie:
open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Not this week; 1975.
Also features a dead fascist and a newspaper ad which sent me into a reverie:
open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Ayr playing in Barcelona's kit, the first team star on 42 quid a week, Motherwell leading the way, and Priscilla, queen of the thimbles.
It was all happening 50 years ago this week: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot... #ScottishFootball #SPFL #AyrUtd #Motherwell
It was all happening 50 years ago this week: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot... #ScottishFootball #SPFL #AyrUtd #Motherwell
Well, Well, Well...
Also, psychedelic Ayr.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ayr playing in Barcelona's kit, the first team star on 42 quid a week, Motherwell leading the way, and Priscilla, queen of the thimbles.
It was all happening 50 years ago this week: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot... #ScottishFootball #SPFL #AyrUtd #Motherwell
It was all happening 50 years ago this week: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot... #ScottishFootball #SPFL #AyrUtd #Motherwell
Ah, the magic of having a game in hand. Right up until you lose the game, of course: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot... Also, Sunday football - it'll never catch on #1975 #ScottishFootball
A game in hand is worth...
A couple of points, if you're lucky
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ah, the magic of having a game in hand. Right up until you lose the game, of course: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot... Also, Sunday football - it'll never catch on #1975 #ScottishFootball
The HONest Man: Ally McLeod comes to save Aberdeen, and the Sunday Post journalist ready to murder his editor. 1975 had it all: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
The HONest Man
Ally's here to save Aberdeen. Just not quite yet.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The HONest Man: Ally McLeod comes to save Aberdeen, and the Sunday Post journalist ready to murder his editor. 1975 had it all: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
A big week for Aberdeen. In 1975, to be fair, and some actual football things happened that week, too. I'm still smiling at the idea of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan sharing a sleeper berth as their train is diverted to Carlisle...
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A big week for Aberdeen
Also, Scottish teams were playing in Europe...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A big week for Aberdeen. In 1975, to be fair, and some actual football things happened that week, too. I'm still smiling at the idea of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan sharing a sleeper berth as their train is diverted to Carlisle...
bairnsotherevolution.substack.com/p/a-big-week...
bairnsotherevolution.substack.com/p/a-big-week...
Remember when #U23 football was a thing? I do: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
Punching holes in the Danes
And pulling them apart like some kind of pastry, probably.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember when #U23 football was a thing? I do: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
If this was 1975, the first silverware of the season would just have been handed to John Greig: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
It's all about the silverware
And the first trophy of the season goes to...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If this was 1975, the first silverware of the season would just have been handed to John Greig: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...
