Football’s hair-erasing game
October 28, 2009
It was a bitter-sweet afternoon for the Partick Thistle fans who made the 240 mile round trip to Dingwall on Saturday 24 October.
Supporters of the Glasgow club were in good spirits and enjoyed the day, but one or two may have risen on Sunday with slightly fuzzy heads and bare chests.
On the pitch, Ian McCall’s side twice came from behind to secure a draw against Ross County.
The 400-strong travelling support twice roared their team back from a goal behind against a physical and direct County side that started the day on top of the SFL First Division.
The carry-on, the invention, the bonding and singing of songs is all part of the fun, but there is a line that certain folk crossed and some weren’t far from getting their fingers burnt - after they had scorched off their chest hair. Yes, that’s right, allegedly one guy wilfully set fire to the hair on his own chest.
Today, the Highland constabulary confirmed that while they were well aware of the Glasgow contingent in Inverness and Ross-shire, no Jags fans were guilty of anything other than enjoying themselves.
And the more extrovert and excitable Jags’ fans won praise from Thistle manager Ian McCall.
He told www.ptfc.co.uk; ‘The support we got was great but quite how those supporters managed to stand out in the elements with their tops off I don’t know.’
While the majority of such shenanigans are good natured and innocent enough, one or two of the lads caught up in the excitement developed bulletproof syndrome including the young man who quite accusingly asked me why was I ‘no getting involved?’
I suspect he was too far-gone on the Bass Shandy to hear me reply that I’d ‘been involved’ since before he was a twinkle in his Daddy’s eye.
Word is that later that evening, this particular individual - having lost his mates, his mobile, his money and his train tickets - had to spend the night under the kind shelter of the Northern Constabulary HQ in Inverness.
Following health and safety rules, the assisting PC took the lad’s lighter off him before he got into his single room for the night.
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