Tuesday 13 November 2012

Route 66 Now Available To Pre-Order!

The book Route 66 by Michael Mowbray is due to be published on or about the 15th November. In it, Michael describes his visits to the 66 football grounds of Yorkshire last season, which includes no small mention of the Seadogs who appear (as visitors) in chapter one! - big mentions for Boro later on as the author took a blister inducing walk from Scarborough to our home-in-exile at Queensgate, Bridlington.
The book is designed to help promote Yorkshire football, and in particular to encourage people to visit their local non-league grounds. They also aim to encourage groundhoppers nationally to visit Yorkshire in order to achieve bronze, silver and gold membership of Club Route 66. A link to the publisher (via http://www.clubroute66.co.uk ) offers the book for £9.99 + p&p. I have pre-ordered a copy, I anticipate a darn good read. Needless to say I hope many other Seadogs will follow suit.

Monday 12 November 2012

Make A Noise For Rudy's Boys

Tuesday 24 July 2012

New Season Starts For Scarborough Athletic FC

Saturday 28th August 2012. Kick off at 2pm

Scarborough Athletic FC v Notts County FC in a pre-season friendly 

You cannot beat a retro-type-poster to advertise the fact.

Subbuteo rules!!



Monday 30 April 2012

Scarborough Athletic FC U16's - Champions!!!




Well done to all concerned with Scarborough Athletic U16's who have been confirmed champions of the Hull Boys Sunday League U16's Drypool Division 2011/12 Season.


The lads also have the chance of a treble as they are involved in the finals of both the Hull Boys Sunday League U16 KO Cup (V Hall Road Rangers U16) & The Scarborough & District FA Senior Minor Cup (V FC Seamer U16).

Seadog Blog wishes the boys all the best in these two games.  

Monday 30 January 2012

When Scarborough FC Met Red Star Belgrade......

When Scarborough FC .......




... met Red Star Belgrade........




A trip down memory lane


Monday 30th July 1990 saw Scarborough FC host one of their more exotic pre-season friendlies. Sandwiched in amongst warm-ups against East Fife, Frickley Athletic & Harrogate Town came a visit from non other than the Balkan giants of European football, Red Star Belgrade.


It was an unlikely clash of Football League Division Four "bottom-halfers" verses the champions of Yugoslavia & it was billed as an "International Club Challenge Match"







The game was played at the McCain Stadium Scarborough, and the home team were resplendent in their new playing strip sponsored by "Black Death Vodka" complete with the "dripping blood" logo which would later have to be toned down at the behest of the Football League.

The final score was Scarborough FC 2-4 Red Star Belgrade. Lee Hirst and Adrian Meyer netted the Seadog goals with Darko Pančev (2) , Dejan Savićević & Mitar Mrkela scoring for Red Star.

The game was played in front of a crowd of just under 2,000 on a balmy summers eve.







The season ahead was to pan out somewhat differently for both clubs, Boro ended the season placed 9th in Football League Division Four whilst the Red Star Belgrade team went on to win the European Cup as well as retaining their National Championship!


Sadly the Civil War that was about to ravage the Balkans interrupted any more success for this side and the Red Star players gradually dispersed to other teams in Europe.







Since these days of course, Scarborough FC lost their Football League status and were eventually liquidated in 2007 (almost 17 years to the day after this match) and the McCain Stadium was demolished in 2011.


Phoenix club Scarborough Athletic have risen from the ashes and play in the Northern Counties East league playing "home" games in Bridlington some 18 miles away.







After the chaotic years of the Balkans War and the break-up of the Former Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade have settled into life in the new Serbian League and whilst they have had some domestic success they are not quite the European force that they once were.


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