Dunfermline Athletic - a Homage to the Pars
December 3, 2007 by ukfinancialadviser
Hi everyone,
Figured you’re only really going to get to know me if you know my football.
Hence the potted history of a Fife boy to man and his football which follows below…
I went to my first Dunfermline Athletic match with my dad in 1972. It was against Dundee and we won 3-2. It was the beginning of a tortuous and rarely rewarding relationship that continues to this day.
At the time of writing we have just been beaten 1-0 by the same opposition and now sit second bottom of the First Division having spent the last 7 years in the top league. It has been a dire season for everyone associated with my club and no-one is suffering more than the poor fans who trudge along more in hope than expectation these days.
Recent seasons have bought us 4 national cup finals and although in time honoured fashion we lost the lot of them, we tasted the big time and the limelight and how we loved it. I suppose then that it is with an air of inevitability that we have been brought crashing back to earth with such a bump.
Still supporting the Pars was never going to be about glory hunting.
For me it’s about community, local identity and above all loyalty. Dunfermline are my team and always will be. Oh and I’m lucky enough to still have my dad sitting beside me like he was all those years ago!
