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http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2468171.0.paddy_buckley.php Paddy Buckley Footballer; Born January 31, 1925; Died November 4, 2008. Paddy Buckley, who has died at the age of 83, was a member of the first Aberdeen FC team to win the Scottish league championship but is regarded as a legendary figure by not just one but two clubs. St Johnstone is the other as to this day he remains fourth in the Perth club's list of all-time goalscorers. Born in Leith, Patrick McCabe Buckley started his football career with junior club Bo'ness United, turning senior in the summer of 1948 at the relatively late age of 23 when he signed for St Johnstone, despite Celtic also being keen to sign him. The dispute was resolved in favour of the division B side, and the centre forward would spend four years at Muirton Park. He soon made an impact, scoring on his Saints' debut - a 3-0 home win over Dundee United on August 21, 1948. He would go on to net 105 goals in four years, and was the club's leading scorer in each of those campaigns. Buckley would have spells during which it seemed inevitable that he would score week after week - in eight successive games from October to December 1948 his name was on the score sheet and only his failure to score in the next match against Airdrieonians prevented him from eventually making extending that run to 13. In January 1950, he netted 13 goals in just six games, including two hat-tricks and four goals in a 7-3 Scottish Cup win against Leith Athletic. advertisement Despite his remarkable goal-scoring record, Saints were never able to get out of division B and a move to a bigger club was inevitable. He joined Aberdeen in a £7500 transfer in April 1952, signed by manager Dave Halliday, and would go on to serve the Pittodrie club with distinction for the next five years. His first game for the Dons was not the most auspicious of debuts, a 2-5 defeat to Motherwell at Fir Park in the opening fixture of the season. However, he would go on to score 15 goals in 40 games during that inaugural campaign at Pittodrie, and in total notched 92 in 152 appearances in five years - endearing himself to the fans to such an extent that to this day there are those who rate him as among the finest strikers to play for the club in the past half-century. A striker with a devastating turn of speed, Buckley was, at only 5ft 6ins, small for a forward, but he had a prodigious leap and was a constant threat in the air. He played in two Scottish Cup finals - 1953 and 1954, both of which were lost. In 1953, the Dons' route to Hampden was remarkable: a third-round tie at home to cup-holders Motherwell resulted in an astonishing 5-5 draw, with Buckley scoring twice. He had one more in the Fir Park replay in a staggering 6-1 win for the visitors. Hibernian's "Famous Five" were overcome in the quarter-finals after two games, both of which attracted crowds in excess of 40,000. Rangers, however, were just too strong, despite the absence of Willie Woodburn, Sammy Cox and Billy Simpson. In a final that again incorporated two games, the first drawn 1-1 before 129,762 spectators, the replay won 1-0 thanks to a goal from the returning Simpson before 113,700 people. The success marked long-serving Ibrox boss Bill Struth's last major cup success. Great games, great crowds - but if ever a side should have won the Scottish Cup it was Aberdeen in 1954. Hibernian again and Hearts were eliminated, the latter before a scarcely credible all-time Pittodrie record attendance of 45,061. In the semi-final at Hampden, the Dons secured a full measure of revenge for the final loss of the previous year when they overwhelmed Rangers 6-0. However, it should be emphasised that the Govan men suffered serious injury troubles during the game in the days before substitutes, with goalkeeper Bobby Brown injured as early as the second minute, full-back Johnny Little a passenger after 25. Buckley hammered the final nail into the Ibrox men's coffin with the sixth goal in the 89th minute. The opposition in the final were Celtic, but northern dreams of a second Scottish Cup success were thwarted as the Glasgow side won 2-1. However, season 1954-55 went to Aberdeen, with the title secured for the first time in the club's history and Buckley's pace and skill a key component in what was essentially a counter-attacking team - 28 goals in 40 appearances telling its own story. There might even have been a league and cup double but after again eliminating Rangers and Hearts en route to the last four, a last-minute goal from Tommy Ring of Clyde at Easter Road meant a 2-2 draw after Buckley had netted both goals for the Pittodrie men. Clyde won the replay 1-0, but five days later the championship was secured at Shawfield, of all places. The Scottish League Cup was won for the first time the following year with a 2-1 win over St Mirren, but a serious knee injury meant an enforced retirement for Buckley in 1957, before returning briefly with Highland League club Inverness Caledonian the following year. Buckley was capped three times by Scotland, making his debut in a 1-0 win over Norway in 1954. Initially selected in the squad for the 1954 World Cup, injury saw him replaced by veteran club colleague George Hamilton. He scored his only Scotland goal against Wales at Ninian Park in a 1-0 win upon his return to fitness in October later that year. A 2-2 home draw with Northern Ireland completed the forward's international career. After football, he returned to Leith, where he worked in a variety of jobs. These included foundry work and a lengthy spell with the local authority's parks department. His last years were dogged by dementia and his death at a care home in Tranent was hastened by two strokes in the past three months. His wife Lena predeceased him, but he is survived by five sons - Paddy Junior, John, Graham, Kevin and Don.

very unexcited about this game and it's cold outside and I'm still in the flat and not at the pub never the less LETS KILL THESE FUCKS

20,000 at Pittodrie for a Rugby Friendly match vs Canada, in a city with no professional rugby side. 32,000 at Hampden for a Football Friendly match vs Argentina, in a city with two of the biggest club sides in the world, pulling 110,000 to their home matches between them

be good to see a convincing home victory at pittodrie too

Rugby today and the pitch currently half covered in snow surely it's gonna be a tattie field come next saturday

"strong characters" who?

Is there a cash gate? How many ticket have we sold? See you all in Middletons

yeah they need another striker

last win was in 2006: Hibernian 3-1 Aberdeen 17-02-2008 Hibernian 3-3 Aberdeen 25-08-2007 Hibernian 4-1 Aberdeen 18-01-2007 CUP Hibernian 0-0 Aberdeen 02-01-2007 Hibernian 1-1 Aberdeen 29-07-2006 Hibernian 1-2 Aberdeen 14-01-2006

Is this a new thing, never remember seeing them before

I'm going, so yes, probably last game I saw us win, or even get a draw, was Ayr in the cup!!

Never a better chance you would think. current form, only ICT and Accies are worse than Hibs: Aberdeen won 3 drawn 1 lost 2 scored 7 conc 5 Hibernian won 1 drawn 2 lost 3 scored 6 conc10

Usually a good game, but who knows what afc will turn up (or more importantly which afc the tombola produces). Interesting to read a hibs fan's view on the game, sure I've heard that somewhere before

and we come to the crux of the matter The football is fucking brutal at times but usually when that is the case most folk in the stands agree that there would be less chance of it being so poor if certain players, such as seve, were played in their optimum positions. Maybe we are doing as well as we can expect, however too often JC seems to put the players out in nonsensical formations and make bizarre substitutions. As has been pointed out by yourself, TF, our players are fucking stupid, and the likes of Tuesday's formation was always going to result in a dull stalemate. The frustration comes from the fact that we had a perfectly good XI selected to play 442. In fact we were going to play 442 until JC decided we needed to combat the threat of St Mirren and change our formation. Further frustration comes from the fact that the SPL is chronic this season, yet we're fucking about in midtable. The number of matches we have thrown away at home this year is unacceptable, and too often JC's reliance on the wrong players and wrong formations has contributed to this. The thing is as much as I can't be bothered with JC anymore, and find that our games, more often than not fucking shite I wouldn't be at all surprised to see us finish the season with a European place and a Scottish Cup run (of sorts), meaning, ultimately a successful season. Yet I'll still have this nagging doubt that it could, meh should, have been better if it wasn't for JC.

I don't wish illness on him, just unemployment EDIT: and the comments if anyone didn't hear were that he was going to play 442 until at the last moment he heard St Mirren's Team line-up and changed to 352 to match them. He's a lucky cunt that Consi got that goal tonight otherwise he would be in serious trouble. However looks like he'll continue to stumble along with the odd result at just the right time.

well yes and no, everyone else is just very very poor....with the exception of Miller

not what the texts have said 2-0 doesn't hide the fact that by the sounds of things it was a fucking horrific performance with the most schizophrenic formation yet

centre mid was bebo and aluko at one point apparently and seve has played the entire game at the back Is JC serious when he does this?

it's not that good

what the hell was the £6M figure then?

do we not owe Milne and Aberdeen Assets several million too, perhaps this isn't included in the "net bank debt"

well blow me we made an actual real profit and have reduced our debt. Well done afc

an update from Mad.