Arbroath FC Archive – https://www.arbroatharchive.co.uk/
There are many supporters who are dedicated to following the Lichties, but one supporter has taken his passion and love of Arbroath FC to another level, and we are extremely grateful that he has!
Simon has given up hours, days and months putting together an incredible online archive about Arbroath FC.
You would love all supporters to visit the website here https://www.arbroatharchive.co.uk/ and please follow the two social media pages for daily updates and share with your friends.
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ArbroathArchive
Twitter – https://twitter.com/ArbArchive
It isn’t until you visit the archive, that you can really see the amount of data that Simon has investigated, processed then entered into this incredible Arbroath FC almanac.
Here are some of the things that you will be able to look up;
· A record of every game we’ve played from 1878 until present day, with over 6400 total games in total, with game date (teams, subs, scorers, ref etc) where known, and highlights for modern day games
· A match report for every almost every game with thousands of old reports from the Arbroath Herald & Arbroath Guide and dozens of other sources, as well as fan reports from the old arbroathfc.org.uk website for our games in the 90s and early 00s
· A profile for every player who has played for the club containing their full playing record for the club as well as player info, a picture where we have it and a biography
· Our all-time player appearance records, goal scorer records and clean sheet records.
· Hundreds of pictures, programme covers, a managerial timeline, hat trick heroes and lots more!
Simon explained “As well as the site itself, we will be looking to keep our social media pages fairly active with regular posts on a whole host of things, such as ‘Guess the Player’, ‘On This Day’, ‘Did You Know?’ etc. as well as hopefully further articles/ interviews in the future.
We have a fantastic history as a football club, and I’m delighted we have our full records online for all to see and hope the social media channels will help bring some wonderful stories of players, matches etc. to you all over the coming months/ years.
If anyone wants to get involved or has any material they think we should have on the site it’d be great to hear from them.
It’d be great if people we’re able to share the site/ social media posts on their own online profiles to get things out there. Any and all questions/ contributions/ ideas etc. are welcomed and very much encouraged.”
One of the incredible stories is footage of Football Icon George Best playing at Gayfield.
Simon said; “We’ve been very lucky to get our hands on is previously unseen highlights from the Arbroath v Arbroath Vics match played in August 1982 to mark the junior clubs centenary.
The game, which was won 4-3 by the Vics with Best scoring two penalties, was captured on a VHS Camcorder from the Gayfield tunnel and the footage had been in the loft of former Arbroath Vics committee member Ed Collier for the past few decades.
After Ed’s passing last year his son, also named Ed, found the footage and gave us a copy. The highlights are 20 minutes long with Best being prominent throughout.
He wasn’t the only ‘well kent’ face on display that day however, with both teams featuring plenty of players who still have lots of connections to the club and town of Arbroath itself.”
Match details can be found on the following link: https://arbroatharchive.co.uk/matches.php
Match highlights can be found on the Arbroath Archive YouYube Channel – Please remember to subscribe – https://www.youtube.com/@ArbroathArchive-fl3zp/videos
Arbroath Chairman Mike Caird was thrilled at the work Simon has carried out “This is an amazing piece of work that Simon has documented on the history of Arbroath Football Club and we are very grateful and thankful for this.
When Simon came up with the idea of an online archive over two years ago, we were fully supportive and excited to see the finished result, however I never imagined the depth of information and detail that he has produced.
I’m sure supporters will spend many hours searching for memories of matches and players that they remember and will be the go-to place to settle a friendly argument on a particular fact about the Club”
We hope all supporters will enjoy and truly appreciate the work Simon has put in, and we will be sharing lots of his posts online, but please do follow and share this amazing new Arbroath FC Archive.
Thank you Simon!
C’mon the Lichties
