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church66
The Glenhead Social Club Pool Team .
Genuine , could tell you more , Big Tam's not long gone to rest , lucky if I met him a dozen times since that last season 1994/95 and it wasn't mean't to end that way but it just so happens it did .
church66
Big Tam .
it has taken the passing of Big Tam for me to open up . type away Chud , nobody will believe you anyway but it's true stories , believe what you will .
church66
Duntocher Hibernian F.C. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duntocher_Hibernian_F.C.
It's so sad on many levels thinking back , the elders smashing a fence post so that you could sneak into the field to watch football matches or you could go the long way and walk through a fields to sit on the hill to watch football matches so maybe 43/42 years ago and now those same fields have houses built on them . It really was better in those days !
church66
Clydebank and district pool league Web Site :
https://www.facebook.com/clydebankanddistrictpoolleague/
Young Tam runs this web site and streams matches , he is a great player and when my computer bust a few years ago a chance meeting , he gave me an old Laptop he had and it kept me in touch with AZBilliards , cost me a 6-3 defeat at the pool right enough lol !
church66
Cues .When your cue gets stolen it is an absolute heartbreaker and I knew it just had to be a player from The Peel who stole it so I cursed it to whoever stole my cue may you never ever win a game of Pool with my magic wand ever ever again .
church66
The Glenhead Social Club Pool Team 1984/85-1994-95 .
I've typed some but there is more to type and I want to type about the players but here's a story .
Steve W just lost a pint a game match so it's double or quits plus a £5 'er , I had my fun for the night and I was just about to leave when Steve W grabbed me and said hey , where're yo going , home I said , stay , playing for a pint and a £5 er , I've no money Steve , neither have I so I set them up you finish it . I'm sure I typed this the other night but still fresh in the memory bank . Steve W had the reputation as a bar room brawler so when I cleared up I was just glad to leave , few more stories like that but I wasn't on for playing Pool for money .
church66
Captain my captain .
Eddie S gone , team picked itself , Big Al took over as Team Captain , picked his mates first , League rules were garbage anyway and worked against the players , there may have been one or two temp Captains in between but Big Tam stepped in and all of a sudden the team were playing brilliant again at least until i burnt out and it meant nothing any more .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxWBTQ68WP0
church66
Glenhead Social Club 1984/85 to 1994/95 Team Captains .
Eddie S - Big Al -Big Tam .
There may have been one or two more but it's those three that matter for this conversation .
Eddie S the original team Captain who without him I very much doubt that there would've been a Glenhead Social Club Pool Team lasted who knows maybe 4/5/6 years or so until one night away at The Peel Glen in Drumchapel and I got back from the Bar with a pint of lager and it's well that's the last we've seen of him , who I asked , Eddie S they said so I went to meet him , gave him a cuddle and asked what you used to say , your playing chess on the Pool table , white's the Queen Black's the king , what were you on about . Your playing it , you just can't see it , leave you a song , Neil Young - World On a String . I gave him a hug and that was it , never seen him since .
church66
Cues.
Glenhead Social Club V The Peel Glen .
We'd just sent them packing early night etc and I left my cue at the Cigarette Machine at the swing doors and ordered a pint at the Bar then made room for the pint in the toilets and returned as The Peel Glen were leaving and my cue is just gone so I asked team mates did you see where my cues gone ? No they said and I ran out to aske The Peel Glen team have any of you's seen / got my cue but they jumped into their cars . I never seen that cue ever again , always looked for it when we played them . It was like my magic wand had been stolen and if asked it could place the cue ball at my command to a pin point but it was stolen . Bought a new cue but it was no good , team mate Hugh gave me a cue , try this as I was at the point of packing it all in .
church66
1984/85-1994.1995 .
That was my playing days/nights and thinking back I'm pretty sure I was the only to have stuck through the thick and thin and when it was brilliant it was truely brilliant but when it was bad , it couldn't get any worse .For example in the early days we were so good we could turn up with 7 players and win the singles 7-0 and head home early but when it was bad same deal trounced and sent home early doors lol !
church66
Players .
As a player in the early days I was good but I just couldn't grasp the League rules so maybe 3rd or 4th best in the team at the end of the season , it was just a night out for me , escapism from the nightmare of married life . I was there in the early days when the table fees went from 10p to 15p and the table was empty , whats up I asked , why's nobody on the table ? We're not paying 15p for a game lol , same when it went up to 20p then 30p then 40p then 50p , think it's £1 a game nowadays .
church66
The Glenhead Social Club Pool Team .
That's how it all began , Thursday night's Pool competition and one night Eddie S called us over and it's right I'm going to start a Pool Team , who want's in ? We need at least 8 players for 8 singles matches and 4 Doubles matches so who's in ? Quite a lot of people put their names in the hat , not everyone got a game but it was all new and exciting to be involved in , playing in the new pubs and venues you'd never have went to , new people & players it was all just brilliant . To win the B League in the first season and finish runners up , just pipped in the League Cup , just brilliant memories .
church66
Glenhead Social Club Pool Team .
Without Eddie S , there would've been no Pool Team , he ran the Thursday night Pool tournaments , 50p a head entry , bottle of spirits to the winner , half bottle to the runner up or cans of lager - beer equivalent lol Those were the days my friend lol !
church66
Eddie S .
What a character he was , always in the Glenhead Social Club/Hibs day or night sitting near the pool table playing/holding the table or just watching games being played . Eddie was from Falkirk , they had a Pool League and he played for their team but travelled through to Duntocher for a family funeral at the Haye family who were on the Glenhead Social Club Committee and Geordiw was on Ground staff duty and once in they just couldn't get rid of Eddy S . He was a player alright moderate and beatable when sober but give that man a few beers he commanded the table for all hours of the day and night .
church66
https://duntocher.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/glenhead-social-club-19833689.html
I was underage but desperate for something new and at the swing doors I thought what is on the other side and what if people say he's underage ? I will say I'm Raymond my older adopted brother and I opened the swing doors and the first thing that hit me was the smoke and it was too late , half the street were in there boozing away , they all knew me , standing there in my Mod Militia Boating Blazer , white shirt , inch wide black tie with The Specials logo , sta press or denims , can't remember but wearing black and white Spatz shoes and it's here we go .
church66
Glenhead Social Club , Farm Road , Duntocher .
https://www.facebook.com/glenheadsocialclub/
Sir Alex Ferguson unveils portrait of Drumchapel Amateurs founder Douglas Smith in the Scottish Football Museum
February 20, 2014NewsGemma Muirhead :
https://scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/sir-alex-ferguson-unveils-portrait-of-drumchapel-amateurs-founder-douglas-smith-in-the-scottish-football-museum/
Knocking in high breaks for fun on the 6x3 Snooker table and it's Dad has The Malting , West End Bar , O'Donnell's or The Duntiglennan Bar got a full size Snooker table ? Oh , what makes you ask that said Dad , oh I just want to know . No maybe Pool Tables , full size Snooker tables? You need to ask somebody else said Dad , the Pubs here aren't big enough .
church66
Duntocher - Where I live .
I'm not a Duntocherite , I was born in the next village called Hardgate so if anything I'm a Hardgatonian , lol ! The Duntocher village elders used to tell me when I was growing up that this place stopped being a village in the 1960's when George Wimpy builders bought up farmers land to build houses for the banks and strangers bought into this place and the days of leaving your front door and windows ended .
church66
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax - Extended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okzmGI-Paj8
Just like when the BBC banned The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen from TV and Radio and it went to Number One in the Charts it made sales go through the roof I liked Frankie , they were different so I bought into them and my sister liked them so we had a good few Frankie vinyls between us lol !
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