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Why the Scottish Football Museum is one of the world's best
May 1976, Scotland v England at Hampden Park. In the 49th minute, with the score 1-1, Joe Jordan rampages down the left wing and crosses to Kenny Dalglish. As a nation holds its breath, Dalglish shimmies past an England defender and fires a shot. To everyone's surprise, the normally reliable Ray Clemence lets the ball slip between his legs and trickle into the net. From Kirkwall to Kirkcudbright, Scots respond with the kind of collective roar usually reserved for the likes of Bannockburn. This seminal moment in sporting history is played endlessly in a video loop at the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden, which Live Football Tickets has just named the third best football museum in Europe. Bettered only by museums in Greece and Serbia, the Hampden museum was streets ahead of the National Football Museum in Manchester, which limped in at ninth. Another historic win for Scotland. For the full Hampden experience, the museum manager, Andy Kerr, leads hour-long tours behind the scenes, through players' and match officials' dressing rooms and into the tunnel leading to the pitch, followed by as long as visitors like in the museum. • Scottish Football Museum honours women's game The original Hampden was built in 1903, and three decades later a world record crowd of 149,415 crammed in to watch Scotland beat England 3-1. It was demolished in the 1990s to make way for a downsized modern stadium. The dressing rooms are smart and functional rather than luxurious, allowing players representing club or country to focus on what they are here for. But they are helped to feel at home with national and club emblems on the walls of their respective rooms. The atmospheric climax is walking through the tunnel towards the Hampden Roar, which must make a few hairs rise. I can only imagine the thrill. Every year two teams emerge hoping to win the oldest association football trophy in the world, the Scottish Cup, which has pride of place in a glass case here at the museum. It is a handsome trophy crafted by silversmiths in 1873 for 56 pounds, 7 shillings and 11 pence, now estimated to be worth an eye-watering £1 million. For this reason it never leaves the stadium. After being presented to the winning team and paraded in a victory lap, it is returned to the museum for safekeeping and the team is given a replica. The stars of the collection are undoubtedly the portraits of dozens of players, managers and personalities. Dalglish is prominent among them, along with Denis Law, 'Slim Jim' Baxter, Graeme Souness and Alex Ferguson. • Five of the best heritage museums in Scotland There are surprising names among lesser-known lights of the game, notably Robert Smyth McColl, who scored a hat-trick in a 4-1 victory over England in 1900. He became known as 'Toffee' Bob a year later when he founded a newsagent with his brother. There was also a licensed-to-kill secret agent by the name of James Bond, aka Sean Connery, who played for Bonnyrigg Rose juniors for a couple of seasons in the 1950s. 'Big Tam' is remembered for a fashionable brown corduroy jacket and an entourage of doe-eyed local girls, though he was offered a trial by the Manchester United manager Matt Busby, which he wisely declined for an acting career. A set of 1903 iron and wood turnstiles leads to a motley collection of historic football strips, medals, posters and clunky leather boots that look as if they were designed for coalminers. Speaking of which, the exhibition From Pit to Pitch: A Story of Coal Seams & Football Dreams, running until the end of the year, investigates the mining communities across central Scotland that incubated great footballers and managers, including Bill Shankly, Jock Stein and Busby. One exhibit brought back fond memories of my early career as a trainee sports reporter, showing a section of the old press box with a phone booth that adorned the roof of the old stadium. I still remember climbing a spiral iron staircase and the smell of an old wooden corridor leading to our eyrie overlooking the field of dreams and much of Glasgow, as far as Ben Lomond. The thunderous roar of the crowd still rings in my ears. Entry to the Scottish Football Museum is £8 for adults and £3 for children; entry plus stadium tour costs £16/£9 (
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
The Great Euro Robbery: Fifty years on from the 1975 European Cup final, Leeds supporters are still convinced they were robbed by Bayern Munich, writes MATT BARLOW
One game survives like no other in Leeds United legend. One game that seldom fails to stir the emotions inside Elland Road. And that game is half a century old tomorrow. 'I don't think you forget it,' says Joe Jordan, who is among those who featured in it. 'To reach a European Cup final doesn't happen often and many years have passed by and a lot of the players are, sadly, not with us any more, but I don't think you can ever forget it. 'You look back and try to analyse, but the result is there. We lost the game and that was a huge disappointment for me, for everyone in the dressing room and for all the Leeds fans. 'It was a game we should have won, basically, and we didn't. There were certain circumstances, but the facts are we didn't win the game and that's it, that's all you can say, that's football.' This the European Cup final of 1975, Leeds v Bayern Munich in Paris, the last hurrah for the great team built by Don Revie at the end of their tumultuous first season without him. Bayern won 2-0, the second of their mid-1970s hat-trick of European titles, but that is only half the story. 'The legacy of that game, the failure of that team to win the European Cup they deserved, the feelings of injustice and the subsequent UEFA punishments are among the reasons Leeds is still such a big club,' says Rocco Dean, author of The Sons of Revie. 'I was brought up with those stories and the feeling of a team robbed and that feeling has generated the passion you still get inside Elland Road. That's the legacy. 'Fans still sing 'Champions of Europe' every week and it's not something that will go away. It's not just about the European Cup final because it does run a lot deeper. It's the whole story of that era and it's amazing how it led to that crescendo. 'It was one last chance for Leeds to cement themselves into history as champions of Europe and it was taken from them, we think unfairly.' Michel Kitabdjian, the French referee who died five years ago at the age of 89, was at the heart of the controversy after failing to give a penalty for a foul by Franz Beckenbauer on Allan Clarke and ruling out a Peter Lorimer goal. Confusion descended after the Lorimer goal, a volley from outside the penalty area, as the officials seemed to signal a goal and then change their minds after Beckenbauer spoke to the assistant referee. Only then did they rule Billy Bremner offside. 'It has lived on because it was so blatant,' says Frank Gray, who played at left back. 'Everyone who sees the footage thinks, 'Why wasn't that a penalty and why wasn't that goal given?' 'If VAR had been around then, they would have gone in our favour, but on the night the referee made a couple of bad decisions. It was not his best game, put it that way.' A contest dominated by Leeds until that point took a twist. Franz Roth scored on the break and Gerd Muller snatched the second as Leeds piled forward. 'I felt bad for some of the older players,' admits Gray. 'I was only 20 at the time, I knew for me there might be other chances and I was lucky enough to play in another final and win it with Nottingham Forest against Hamburg. But for the likes of Billy Bremner, Johnny Giles, Norman Hunter and my brother Eddie, we all knew realistically this would be their last chance to win the big one. 'They had done so much for the club and that would have been the pinnacle, something they probably deserved. It would have been an incredible moment and I genuinely did feel sorry for them.' Dean's book centres on the 10 top-flight seasons under Revie and pitches them in the ranks of football's great but under- appreciated sides. 'They were certainly underrated,' says Dean. 'Nobody talks about Leeds as one of the great English teams and that would have been different had they won that final. 'In those 10 years under Revie, they lost only three times to Manchester United with the Holy Trinity of George Best, Bobby Charlton and Denis Law. If you weight all the results to three points for a win, they averaged 1.95 points a game from 1965 to 1974, the same as Liverpool for the 10 years from 1976 to 1985. 'Liverpool won seven league titles and four European Cups. Leeds won two league titles. Forest won the European Cup twice, but Leeds dominated for 10 years. They were the favourites for everything ever year and went hard after every trophy, only to be largely forgotten.' Revie had become England manager and the 1974-75 season started with the infamous 44 days under Brian Clough. Jimmy Armfield stepped in, persuaded by his friend Revie to leave Bolton to calm the Leeds storm. By the final whistle in the Parc des Princes, however, even Armfield, revered as one of the gentlemen of English football, found his diplomacy tested. 'I'd never seen my dad so angry after a match,' says Duncan Armfield, one of his sons. 'He was good at accepting defeat. He loved the game and if he was beaten by a a better team there would be no malice. Like when he didn't play in the 1966 World Cup final, he said it was far better that we won. 'Dad was fuming. He took his piddly little medal and threw it on the floor. He knew something wasn't right and for me to see him like that, I knew something was wrong. He was more upset for the fans and the players. 'He had pulled them back up the league and they had played brilliantly to beat Johan Cruyff's Barcelona in the semi-finals. Leeds were the best team in Europe. They felt cheated and that feeling of disappointment lasted a long time.' Armfield's medal was recovered from the dressing-room floor and there are plans for it to go on display as part of his collection in the National Football Museum. Travelling Leeds fans did not take the result well. They started to break up the stadium and throw seats after Bayern scored, and rioted into the night. Leeds legend Bobby Collins was caught up in the fighting outside the ground and beaten up. There is another perspective on it all. Bjorn Andersson was 23 and only 10 months into his career at Bayern Munich when a sickening challenge by Terry Yorath left him writhing in pain in the fourth minute. Uli Hoeness, later president of Bayern but then their centre forward, described it as the worst tackle he had seen and the grainy footage supports his case. Had there been VAR, Leeds would certainly have played most of the final with 10 men. 'Everything in my knee was destroyed,' Andersson tells Mail Sport from his home in Sweden. 'There were a lot of emotions. Walking out of the tunnel, I can remember the Leeds players talking tough and aggressively. 'I was not afraid, but I had a feeling they were angry and that this might be their way of getting up for the game. 'Our tactical plan was for me to play against Billy Bremner and keep him out of the game. After two minutes, I get an elbow in my eye from Billy. It took a minute or so before I could see normally again and then Terry Yorath came flying into my knee and my European Cup final crashed. It was a big, big, big injury.' Andersson was carried off and didn't make the medal ceremony, never receiving one. He took painkillers to get through the post-match banquet and went directly to hospital in Munich, staying there for four weeks. He spent eight weeks in plaster. His surgeon told him he would never play again. 'That was difficult to hear,' says Andersson. 'I can remember thinking there was no reason to live. Football was everything for me.' Nobody visited from Bayern other than Hoeness, who had also been injured in the final and was regularly at the same hospital. The club even withheld more than half of Andersson's win bonus as he only played four minutes. Andersson did play again. He made the bench for the 1976 European Cup final against Saint-Etienne, when Bayern completed the hat-trick, and played in the Intercontinental Cup final of 1976 against Cruzeiro of Brazil, before accepting he would never be the same player again. He returned to Sweden, where he became a teacher and played part-time before working in youth development and education with the Swedish FA, nurturing young players like Fredrik Ljungberg. Now he has two artificial knees and holds no malice. 'When you are 73 and you can walk and laugh and enjoy life, you cannot look back on the bad things,' he says. 'I've read Terry Yorath has regret about my injury, but I was never angry with him. That would not help anybody. It was a hot thing for me at the time. I was on the way to becoming a very good player and was normal after that. 'It's no problem to speak about it, but I don't remember anything about the game that happened after my injury. They said Leeds were the best team on the day, but I don't know about that.' Leeds flew home to a rapturous reception, tens of thousands of fans lining the streets, but it would never be the same again. Giles left for West Brom that summer. Bremner and Hunter left a year later for Hull and Bristol City respectively. Bayern tried to buy Jordan. Leeds refused to let him go, but the trend was set. The break-up of the team was reinforced by a ban from European competitions for the rioting, reduced on appeal to two years. 'We could have replaced those great players with equally top-class players if we had won the European Cup,' says Gray. 'We could have gone on. It could have been a different story.'
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Domino's® and DoorDash Announce Partnership: World's Largest Pizza Company to Join Largest Local Commerce Platform in North America
Orders on DoorDash's Marketplace will be delivered by Domino's drivers Partnership Highlights: Domino's Joins DoorDash Marketplace: Nationwide U.S. launch beginning in May 2025, expanding to Canada later in 2025 Seamless Integration with Self-Delivery: Domino's drivers fulfill orders while tapping into DoorDash's leading local commerce platform for new customer reach ANN ARBOR, Mich. and SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino's Pizza Inc. (Nasdaq: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world, has entered into a partnership with DoorDash (Nasdaq: DASH), the leading local commerce platform in North America.1 The partnership will allow Domino's to reach new customers through DoorDash Marketplace, while continuing delivery service by Domino's drivers. A pilot is currently underway in select locations, with a planned nationwide U.S. launch beginning in May 2025 and across Canada later in 2025. "As brands that are both dedicated to digital ordering excellence, our new partnership with DoorDash brings together the scale of our two industry-leading companies, as we continue to build towards the $1 billion opportunity that we believe the aggregator marketplace represents for us," said Joe Jordan, Domino's chief operating officer and president – U.S. "The ability to connect seamlessly with DoorDash customers means more sales for Domino's stores, while efficiently leveraging our brand's robust delivery network. Tapping into incremental customers, particularly in suburban and rural markets, is a meaningful opportunity for Domino's, as our brand continues to open stores nationwide." "DoorDash is excited to welcome Domino's to our Marketplace across the U.S. and Canada. Domino's chose DoorDash for our unmatched scale and reach, helping them serve millions of customers and drive incremental sales," said Prabir Adarkar, president and chief operating officer of DoorDash. "By joining forces, we're bringing customers a new choice in the rapidly growing pizza category." A top-tier delivery and digital experience is core to both companies' DNA. DoorDash users will be able to order from their local Domino's store through the DoorDash app, with seamless GPS tracking fully integrated to monitor their delivery progress by a uniformed Domino's driver. Domino's orders will be available to subscribers of DashPass, DoorDash's subscription program, which offers unlimited $0 delivery fees and reduced service fees on orders over $12.2 Domino's loyalty program, Domino's Rewards, will only be offered on Domino's e-commerce platforms. About Domino's Pizza®Founded in 1960, Domino's Pizza is the largest pizza company in the world, with a significant business in both delivery and carryout. It ranks among the world's top public restaurant brands with a global enterprise of more than 21,300 stores in over 90 markets. Domino's had global retail sales of over $19.1 billion in 2024. Its system is comprised of independent franchise owners who accounted for 99% of Domino's stores as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2024. In the U.S., Domino's generated more than 85% of U.S. retail sales in 2024 via digital channels and has developed many innovative ordering platforms. Order – Info – Assets – About DoorDashDoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH) is a technology company that connects consumers with their favorite local businesses in more than 30 countries across the globe. Founded in 2013, DoorDash builds products and services to help businesses innovate, grow, and reach more customers. DoorDash is your door to more: the local commerce platform dedicated to enabling merchants to thrive in the convenience economy, giving consumers access to more of their communities, and providing work that empowers. Forward-Looking StatementsThis communication contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events, and such statements in this communication include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the opportunity and expected benefits of the Domino's and DoorDash partnership and the expected plans for the launch and expansion of such partnership. Expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. For information on potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from any results predicted, please see Domino's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2024 and DoorDash's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, each filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 1 Based on total delivery GOV in 2024 2 *DashPass benefits apply only to eligible orders that meet the minimum subtotal requirement listed on DoorDash for each participating merchant. Other fees (including service fee), taxes, and gratuity still apply. After signing up for DashPass, you will be charged the then-current renewal price (plus applicable taxes) automatically on a recurring basis until you cancel. DashPass terms (including how to cancel) here. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Domino's Pizza Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Domino's to offer pizzas on DoorDash marketplace in US
Domino's Pizza has joined DoorDash Marketplace, marking the beginning of a collaboration in which orders placed on the local commerce platform will be delivered by the pizza company's drivers. The collaboration will allow customers to order Domino's through the DoorDash marketplace while maintaining the brand's delivery experience. The pilot phase is currently operational in select locations, with a broader rollout scheduled to commence in the US from May 2025, then extend to Canada later in the year. Domino's US chief operating officer and president Joe Jordan stated: "As brands that are both dedicated to digital ordering excellence, our new partnership with DoorDash brings together the scale of our two industry-leading companies, as we continue to build towards the $1bn opportunity that we believe the aggregator marketplace represents for us. 'The ability to connect seamlessly with DoorDash customers means more sales for Domino's stores, while efficiently leveraging our brand's robust delivery network. Tapping into incremental customers, particularly in suburban and rural markets, is a meaningful opportunity for Domino's, as our brand continues to open stores nationwide." Customers using DoorDash can order from their local Domino's store directly through the DoorDash app. This integration includes real-time GPS tracking, ensuring customers can monitor their delivery handled by a uniformed Domino's driver. Subscribers of DashPass, DoorDash's subscription service, will benefit from the partnership with unlimited free delivery and reduced service fees on orders exceeding $12 from Domino's. DoorDash president and chief operating officer Prabir Adarkar stated: "DoorDash is excited to welcome Domino's to our Marketplace across the US and Canada. Domino's chose DoorDash for our unmatched scale and reach, helping them serve millions of customers and drive incremental sales. By joining forces, we're bringing customers a new choice in the rapidly growing pizza category." In February 2025, DoorDash reached a $17m settlement with the New York Attorney General's office after allegations of misappropriating tips intended for its delivery workers. "Domino's to offer pizzas on DoorDash marketplace in US" was originally created and published by Verdict Food Service, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
DoorDash Stock Jumps on Domino's Pizza Partnership
Domino's Pizza and DoorDash have partnered to make the pizza giant's food available through the DoorDash app. Users in the U.S. will be able to order Domino's through DoorDash starting in May. Domino's has held an exclusive third-party deal to sell its pizza on Uber Eats that expires May (DASH) shares surged Wednesday after the delivery platform announced a new partnership with Domino's Pizza (DPZ). DoorDash users will be able to order Domino's throughout the U.S. starting in May, with a rollout in Canada expected later this year, the companies said. Since July 2023, Domino's has had an exclusive partnership with Uber (UBER) Eats, a deal that ends May 1. "The ability to connect seamlessly with DoorDash customers means more sales for Domino's stores, while efficiently leveraging our brand's robust delivery network," Domino's COO Joe Jordan said. "Tapping into incremental customers, particularly in suburban and rural markets, is a meaningful opportunity for Domino's, as our brand continues to open stores nationwide." In the pizza giant's last earnings call in February, CEO Russell Weiner said that Uber accounted for 3% of its $19.12 billion in sales for 2024, according to an AlphaSense transcript. Jordan on Wednesday repeated Domino's previously stated belief that third-party "aggregator" services like DoorDash could eventually make up $1 billion in annual sales. DoorDash stock was among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500 Wednesday afternoon, with shares up more than 5%, while Domino's shares were about 1% higher. Read the original article on Investopedia Sign in to access your portfolio
