Stircrazy wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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the best Hamish since Hot Shot Hamish Balfour of Princes Park?!

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 Some will get it, some won't. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Shot_Hamish_and_Mighty_Mouse

What is written below is about a comic strip, not real life

Hot Shot Hamish[edit]

Club Career

In the early 70s Princes Park F.C. were the Cinderella of Scottish Football. Overshadowed by the great sides of Glasgow Princes Park languished at the foot of the Second division of the Scottish League but manager Ian McWhacker was determined the 1973-1974 season should see a vast improvement. This happened when the Princes Park team visited the Hebrides discovering Hamish Balfour, a boy with a figure of a giant and the most powerful shot in the world. Ian McWhacker said that Hamish could be the signing of the century!
Hamish soon became supporters favorite but after a fall-out with the directors he was placed on the transfer list. Crawford Town, an English club of the first division where the first to sign the new talent, with young Balfour debuting for them in a World Cup warm-up match against a South American team in London. But Princes Park's supporters demonstrated for his return which was realized shortly after, and Hamish gave them a massive compensation: Princes Park won the Scottish Cup for the very first time of its history in 1974 after beating Ratch Rovers at Hampden Park.
Within 6 years (1974-1980) thanks to Balfour's fireballs Princes Park would enjoy promotion to the Premier division, suffer relegation and promotion again. The 1979-80 found Princes Park back to the first division. Hamish Balfour would give the Cup to Princes Park for the second time in 1982, promotion to the topflight again and two years later he would stand on the high pedestal of Scottish Football, the Premier Division title. The Hebridiean giant having already debuted for the Scotland national team won his second cap in a match against Iceland in March 1985 under manager Ian McBossy. A distinguished career with Scotland wasn't meant to be but that was when he met Kevin Mouse who attended the match in Glasgow. The summer of the same year he helped Pongi FC win a game in Kenyan League while holidaying in Kenya with teammate Wee Wally.
Ian McWhacker had managed to build a strong team with the likes of Hamish Balfour, Kevin Mouse and Wee Wally. The all-conquering trio helped Princes Park be crowned Cup winners in 1987 and reached the top of Europe the following year by beating Bumchen Munchen in the European Cup Winners' Cup Final. One year later McWhacker signed Mouse and Balfour for his new team Glengow Rangers.
Scottish Cup winner again in 1990 and European season for Hamish Balfour but his career in Rangers never became as glamorous as it had been in Princes Park for 16 years. On 30 January 1993 after a horrible defeat in Scottish Cup, manager McWhacker quit leaving Balfour and Mouse in doubt over their future in Glengow Rangers.

Stircrazy wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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the best Hamish since Hot Shot Hamish Balfour of Princes Park?!

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 Some will get it, some won't. 

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I clearly didn't, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.  

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Priesty wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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the best Hamish since Hot Shot Hamish Balfour of Princes Park?!

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 Some will get it, some won't. 

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I clearly didn't, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.  

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 I did, I loved Tiger! Got a load of old issues somewhere. Johnny Cougar was my favourite, I was devastated when they discontinued his story - at 13 it was hard to take  ironically he was replaced by a tennis playing character, John Master as "Master Spy".

 

Anyway, back to the ITF event in Glasgow.....

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 Johnny Cougar, the seminole wrestler from the Everglades!! What a star!!

Top 500 is getting more and more interesting, with Anton picking up a decent haul, Kyle picking up more points and Jake on a roll

-- Edited by paulisi on Friday 27th of October 2023 01:20:47 PM

I thought Jake looked tired today and resorted a couple of times to serving underarm! Hamish is very impressive .

Anton was on fire in the first set then Kyle found his form to take second and was 4- 0 up in second set  , Anton never gave up and managed to take to tie break. 

Kyle disputed a call it was close for a backhand shot on the line , to make it  6-4 on tie break. Anton served an ace which Kyle thought it was a fault again another argument with umpire but then shook hands.

Kyle looked as though he might have had a problem with left knee as he stretching it