Glued to telly down in Mayo (at work, mar dhea) pissy dark evening. Lights off in shop, on my own, just glow from telly. Praying, hoping, dreaming. And then .....Whooping, cheering, dancing like a lunatic, when Gary Mackay scored. Never felt so happy.
Didn’t realise that this helped ROI qualify. No problem guys and then you went and beat England in the tournament. Good to see small nations working together. I also notice that the referee is called Helmut Kohl would have thought he had better things o do
Before sky / BT and living in England, As a 13yr old Scots kid I watched this game ( mum At work ) with the lights off……..on Teletext page 144, and when the screen changed with Mackay scoring it was surreal as fuck tbh in a dark living room 😂😂😂 Still goes down as one of Scotlands best ever results for me despite not qualifying. Funny what kids do 😂😂😂😂
Never seen this with Irish commentary before. The chap was actually rather restrained. The irony is, four years later we relied on Bulgaria getting a point from their final match to get us (Scotland) to Euro92. Which they kindly did.
George Hamilton is the commentator.RTE the TV broadcaster in Ireland decided to show it live on the off chance Bulgaria didn't get the draw they needed.
The game was shown in Ireland, albeit with an hour delay. Someone spoke to Jack Charlton to congratulate him on qualification, “Nah he says what you on about I’m watching it here, it’s 0-0 we’re still in the first half” 😂
it was even better that it was Bulgaria that Ireland finished ahead of, we were always getting robbed over there, the 1977 match where we had a good goal disalowed, and again earlier in the group, even in this match the ref gave Bulgaria everything that was going, never jumped so high in my life when Scotland scored
@@Adrianheneghan lol....yeah right. if bulgaria had money to pay off international refs we wouldn't get stiffed almost every match. look at what happened in 94 against italy for instance. and before that germany (penalty awarded to them ), and before that a brutal yellow card penalty by France in qualifier in 93 just before they scored against bulgaria. first of all there was no money for that in 1977 (and still there isn't). secondly there wouldn't be anybody in then communist Bulgaria who would know how to do this even or who to approach properly. sorry but not at all likely. more like impossible.
@@zarni000 hi sorry the referree isnot against bulgaria world cup 78 qualifiers the scottish referee gave a fake penalty to bulgaria missed in 93 u get qualified so i see no problem 94 vs germany i agree that the penalty was a little bit unfair ; but stoichkov free kick was ABSOLUTELY INEXISTANT he used to do this trick several times this is the same for any country ia m from moroco in rabat a pefect goal not counted for senegal portugueses arealways complaining ; the same for them Did you understand what I meant by that?
What should never be forgotten and always is , is that we beat Bulgaria 2-0 in the previous match and got robbed over there . Ireland were not lucky to qualify. We deserved it . Fair play to Scotland all the same for stuffing them
What should also never be forgotten is that Bulgaria were top of their group and needed only ONE point from the last two games to qualify and even your own official fanzine, dedicated to the national side and the travelling support, in the issue post your Luxembourg away win and pre-final matches, put Bulgaria in the qualifying 8 for Euro 88. I still have it somewhere here at home. If Bulgaria hadn't taken the Scots game as a "gimme", things would have been different (France did the same blunder in 94 wc qualifiers btw). Also, I was AT this game and didn't think the ref was a HOMER....but I do remember your travelling support being somewhat miffed at a couple of decisions. (btw the Irish were the friendliest, best fans I had seen in Sofia up to that point, very fond memories of them and thats why I cheered you chaps on in Euro 88, what a GOAL BY WHELAN eh!) Jack Charlton himself said after the game that Bulgaria were technically a better side than Ireland (although as someone who used to regularly go to Highbury, I can say that you had the great Brady). You beat us fair and square in Dublin and then we paid the price for showboating against Scotland. I always hear Irish fans talking about this game as if it was the Mike Riley show v Arsenal at Old Trafford in 2004, but it really was nowhere near as biased as that. with respect, N
Would remind you Ireland received a helping hand from the ref at Hampden. Allowed a quick-free-kick miles from where the offence took place, with Maurice Malpas still on the ground with a head injury. Not that I am bitter.
hi i think luck is very important ireland euro 92 deserved to be there better than england in some games but unlucly ireland in 93 spain helped u by beating denmark it let u go in usa 96 unlucky because all runners up get through except u that is life what do uthink
Both Ireland and Scotland national teams were mostly getting positive reactions by Bulgarian fans. Even the Bulgarian commentator of this match after the final whistle congratulated the Scots for the deserved win and wished Ireland luck in the Euros. Even to this day Scotland and Ireland are rather sympathetic teams to most Bulgarians. Reading all the hateful and genuinely anti-bulgarian comments here is hilarious :) But I guess it's the normal attitude from UK people towards Eastern Europe in general. Probably part of the cold war propaganda, which was seemingly more negative in the West than it was in the East.
Ironically Helmut Kohl was the linesman who didn't flag the Dutch goal as offside, which it was in the laws at the time, in the 1-0 defeat at the finals
Here was I thinking he was the (West) German Chancellor. :-) Fair play to Scotland though, they were second bottom of the group, they had nothing to play for against Bulgaria but they did what they always do, fought like lions.
Do you notice there's no handshakes at the end? Bulgaria were a disgrace that night. Cynical dangerous fouling, total lack of sportsmanship, and it gave Scotland great pleasure to wreck their qualification dreams.
Shame Gary Mackay never really kicked on from that. He seemed to dine on that moment for some time. Likes of John Collins and Gary McAllister overtook him for that playmaker berth. Mackay just stagnated a year or so after that
Think it started ironically when we beat Scotland at Hampden, no problem beating Cyprus, Iceland and Malta away but when it came to the better teams we might get a draw away but never a win, I think that night a few people thought we could be onto something with this fella.
I doubt everything was 100% honest in this game. Come on, Bulgaria needed a draw to qualify for Euro 1988, and in the '87 minute they conceived a goal on counter attack, from a team that had no chances to qualify. Either Scotland was highly motivated by the Irish football federation, or Bulgaria was "highly motivated". I believe the 2nd option was more likely, as Bulgaria was in the last years of communism, and so, its economy was in big trouble.
Bulgaria...typical eastern european teams ....boasting with talent but can't perform when the going gets tough.....always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Same thing said for Romania and the ex- yugoslavs.
This is one of first matches Stoichkov played for Bulgaria. These were the years of some rising stars at CSKA Sofia like Stoichkov, Penev and Kostadinov. They were 20-21 years okd.
@@nicky29031977 it's all relative but i take your point. i'd say the main issue is the state does not promote sports. Bulgaria used to be a major sports power in the 80s because sports were heavily promoted and subsidized. the 1990s was the result of this investment. in the 80s bulgaria took a lot of medals in the olympics as well - compared to it's size it was quite striking. now that is not the case anymore. talent is there but it needs to be cultivated. also to your point i'd say at crucial junctures bulgaria was short changed - take for example the semi finals with Italy in 1994 and the italians handling the ball in teh penalty field which was quite obvious.
@@zarni000 I am Italian and remember that game well but not the handling of the ball but I'll take your word for it. Bulgaria never won a WC match until 1994 (17 games from 1962 to the Greece game in 1994 ) failing to beat even mediocre opposition like Morocco in 1970 and S Korea in 1986 so it says a few things. As for being short changed until VAR was introduced in the 2018 WC every team in the world can use that reason with some justification, not just Bulgaria. And even VAR is not and probably never will be full proof...how questionable was France's penalty against Croatia in the 2018 WC. I certainly don't hate Bulgaria in football and am only giving a personal opinion and I sincerely hope that one day Bulgaria and all other Eastern European teams can win a WC or EC since they've had great teams in the past who unfortunately have underachieved.
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Glued to telly down in Mayo (at work, mar dhea) pissy dark evening. Lights off in shop, on my own, just glow from telly. Praying, hoping, dreaming. And then .....Whooping, cheering, dancing like a lunatic, when Gary Mackay scored.
Never felt so happy.
Crazy night. I was in Dublin. Hope the FAI sent MacKay a crate of champagne.
I was out on Achill ..A cold dirty wet night..
And a crazy nights end 😮😊
Didn’t realise that this helped ROI qualify. No problem guys and then you went and beat England in the tournament. Good to see small nations working together. I also notice that the referee is called Helmut Kohl would have thought he had better things o do
👍👍👍😁helmut cole
@@davidmiller2527 Kohl = cabbage in English
Surely Ireland have qualified: oh, danger here !! Good old George Hamilton. Always counting his chickens.
Scotland had some very good players in those days.
Never has an advantage had such an effect on the course of history!
Before sky / BT and living in England, As a 13yr old Scots kid I watched this game ( mum
At work ) with the lights off……..on Teletext page 144, and when the screen changed with Mackay scoring it was surreal as fuck tbh in a dark living room 😂😂😂
Still goes down as one of Scotlands best ever results for me despite not qualifying. Funny what kids do 😂😂😂😂
Never seen this with Irish commentary before. The chap was actually rather restrained. The irony is, four years later we relied on Bulgaria getting a point from their final match to get us (Scotland) to Euro92. Which they kindly did.
Plus, Ireland went to Germany in the summer of 88 and beat Scotland's Auld Enemy to partly repay the favour.
@@barbarian981 Aye. That wiz guid.
George Hamilton is the commentator.RTE the TV broadcaster in Ireland decided to show it live on the off chance Bulgaria didn't get the draw they needed.
The game was shown in Ireland, albeit with an hour delay. Someone spoke to Jack Charlton to congratulate him on qualification, “Nah he says what you on about I’m watching it here, it’s 0-0 we’re still in the first half” 😂
I remember watching this game on tv in Scotland when I was 8 years old.
Thank you Tartan Army.
I used to cheer you guys on too.
Our first and only time we topped a qualification group.
We've gone through s number of groups unbeatan. But never topped one again.
Amazing night.Thanks Barbarian,I could watch this all day.
hi who played better in this game ? BULGARIA OR SCOTLAND ?
@@FOUDEFOOT85 Scotland won, Ireland qualified..happy Ireland.
Ah jaysus i cant watch this too much tension, Mon Scotland....
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it was even better that it was Bulgaria that Ireland finished ahead of, we were always getting robbed over there, the 1977 match where we had a good goal disalowed, and again earlier in the group, even in this match the ref gave Bulgaria everything that was going, never jumped so high in my life when Scotland scored
not bulgaria's fault a goal was disallowed was it?
@@zarni000 You sure about that 😉💰💰
@@Adrianheneghan lol....yeah right. if bulgaria had money to pay off international refs we wouldn't get stiffed almost every match. look at what happened in 94 against italy for instance. and before that germany (penalty awarded to them ), and before that a brutal yellow card penalty by France in qualifier in 93 just before they scored against bulgaria.
first of all there was no money for that in 1977 (and still there isn't). secondly there wouldn't be anybody in then communist Bulgaria who would know how to do this even or who to approach properly. sorry but not at all likely. more like impossible.
HI BULGARIA has been helped vs IRELAND in the 70's ? tell me more please ! Even BULGARIA FRANCE the referee helped BULGARIA during the whole game !!!
@@zarni000 hi sorry the referree isnot against bulgaria
world cup 78 qualifiers the scottish referee gave a fake penalty to bulgaria missed
in 93 u get qualified so i see no problem
94 vs germany i agree that the penalty was a little bit unfair ; but stoichkov free kick was ABSOLUTELY INEXISTANT he used to do this trick several times
this is the same for any country ia m from moroco in rabat a pefect goal not counted for senegal
portugueses arealways complaining ; the same for them
Did you understand what I meant by that?
unforgettable night
hi who played better in this game ? BULGARIA OR SCOTLAND ?
What should never be forgotten and always is , is that we beat Bulgaria 2-0 in the previous match and got robbed over there . Ireland were not lucky to qualify. We deserved it . Fair play to Scotland all the same for stuffing them
What should also never be forgotten is that Bulgaria were top of their group and needed only ONE point from the last two games to qualify and even your own official fanzine, dedicated to the national side and the travelling support, in the issue post your Luxembourg away win and pre-final matches, put Bulgaria in the qualifying 8 for Euro 88. I still have it somewhere here at home. If Bulgaria hadn't taken the Scots game as a "gimme", things would have been different (France did the same blunder in 94 wc qualifiers btw). Also, I was AT this game and didn't think the ref was a HOMER....but I do remember your travelling support being somewhat miffed at a couple of decisions. (btw the Irish were the friendliest, best fans I had seen in Sofia up to that point, very fond memories of them and thats why I cheered you chaps on in Euro 88, what a GOAL BY WHELAN eh!) Jack Charlton himself said after the game that Bulgaria were technically a better side than Ireland (although as someone who used to regularly go to Highbury, I can say that you had the great Brady). You beat us fair and square in Dublin and then we paid the price for showboating against Scotland. I always hear Irish fans talking about this game as if it was the Mike Riley show v Arsenal at Old Trafford in 2004, but it really was nowhere near as biased as that. with respect, N
Would remind you Ireland received a helping hand from the ref at Hampden. Allowed a quick-free-kick miles from where the offence took place, with Maurice Malpas still on the ground with a head injury. Not that I am bitter.
hi i think luck is very important
ireland euro 92 deserved to be there better than england in some games
but unlucly
ireland in 93 spain helped u by beating denmark it let u go in usa
96 unlucky because all runners up get through except u
that is life
what do uthink
I was nine. It was a sad night. Two of our key players didn't play because of injuries.
hi who played better in this game ? BULGARIA OR SCOTLAND ?
@@FOUDEFOOT85 I can't remember. I remember only the rain and the tears.
@@ivankitanov8159 I remember Bulgaria helping Scotland to Euro92 four years later, with a draw against Romania. Thank You.
@@iananderson3799 I remember that. A lot of people expected us to lose the game in favour of Romania. Nowadays, our team is very weak.
@@ivankitanov8159 The talk here in Scotland was that Bulgaria would help out their neighbours
Both Ireland and Scotland national teams were mostly getting positive reactions by Bulgarian fans. Even the Bulgarian commentator of this match after the final whistle congratulated the Scots for the deserved win and wished Ireland luck in the Euros. Even to this day Scotland and Ireland are rather sympathetic teams to most Bulgarians. Reading all the hateful and genuinely anti-bulgarian comments here is hilarious :) But I guess it's the normal attitude from UK people towards Eastern Europe in general. Probably part of the cold war propaganda, which was seemingly more negative in the West than it was in the East.
Ironically Helmut Kohl was the linesman who didn't flag the Dutch goal as offside, which it was in the laws at the time, in the 1-0 defeat at the finals
Here was I thinking he was the (West) German Chancellor. :-) Fair play to Scotland though, they were second bottom of the group, they had nothing to play for against Bulgaria but they did what they always do, fought like lions.
Refs and linesmen were part time back then and had other jobs... plumbers, teachers, chancellors...
Gary Mackay we still remember you :-)
This is the night Irish sport was born.
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It was the night we finally got what we deserved ....
I remember seeing Northern Ireland in the World Cup in 82 and 86.
@@mccann444 What had Ireland done on the big stage before Euro '88?
@@paulwiley8902 I was taking about the Republic.
Helmut Kohl ??? Why was the German chancellor being a referee at a European championship qualifier ? Now that's multi-tasking .
He needed to inspect the teams who would be coming to his homeland the following year
Players getting straight up after a tackle and if they stayed down the ref telling them to get up...wouldn't happen nowadays.
If I remember correctly Jack Charlton slagged Scotland off as he said they would have fielded a weakened team as they had nothing to play for
Do you notice there's no handshakes at the end? Bulgaria were a disgrace that night. Cynical dangerous fouling, total lack of sportsmanship, and it gave Scotland great pleasure to wreck their qualification dreams.
На икона готварска книга, което означава, че децата не могат да видят, че има палачинка гола пиле?
Бобби Михайлов, лысый черт.
Shame Gary Mackay never really kicked on from that. He seemed to dine on that moment for some time. Likes of John Collins and Gary McAllister overtook him for that playmaker berth. Mackay just stagnated a year or so after that
Any relation to John? Mackay deserved more caps but at the time you where guaranteed a start if you played for either of the Glasgow bigot brothers.
Как да се пусне на учителя в началото с няколко?
Молдова Тараклийский район, село Кайраклия.
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Started the Golden age of Jack Charltons Eire
Think it started ironically when we beat Scotland at Hampden, no problem beating Cyprus, Iceland and Malta away but when it came to the better teams we might get a draw away but never a win, I think that night a few people thought we could be onto something with this fella.
Golden age Ireland won nothing
If it was on the other foot the Irish would of lost that game 3 nil sending the Scots out.
Not really we beat them 2 nil
I doubt everything was 100% honest in this game. Come on, Bulgaria needed a draw to qualify for Euro 1988, and in the '87 minute they conceived a goal on counter attack, from a team that had no chances to qualify. Either Scotland was highly motivated by the Irish football federation, or Bulgaria was "highly motivated". I believe the 2nd option was more likely, as Bulgaria was in the last years of communism, and so, its economy was in big trouble.
Bulgaria...typical eastern european teams ....boasting with talent but can't perform when the going gets tough.....always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Same thing said for Romania and the ex- yugoslavs.
uhuh. except bulgaria ranked 4th in 1994. what about scotland and ireland? crickets...
This is one of first matches Stoichkov played for Bulgaria. These were the years of some rising stars at CSKA Sofia like Stoichkov, Penev and Kostadinov. They were 20-21 years okd.
@@zarni000 I'm not making comparisons with Ireland or Scotland. I'm just stating facts.
@@nicky29031977 it's all relative but i take your point. i'd say the main issue is the state does not promote sports. Bulgaria used to be a major sports power in the 80s because sports were heavily promoted and subsidized. the 1990s was the result of this investment.
in the 80s bulgaria took a lot of medals in the olympics as well - compared to it's size it was quite striking.
now that is not the case anymore.
talent is there but it needs to be cultivated.
also to your point i'd say at crucial junctures bulgaria was short changed - take for example the semi finals with Italy in 1994 and the italians handling the ball in teh penalty field which was quite obvious.
@@zarni000 I am Italian and remember that game well but not the handling of the ball but I'll take your word for it. Bulgaria never won a WC match until 1994 (17 games from 1962 to the Greece game in 1994 ) failing to beat even mediocre opposition like Morocco in 1970 and S Korea in 1986 so it says a few things. As for being short changed until VAR was introduced in the 2018 WC every team in the world can use that reason with some justification, not just Bulgaria. And even VAR is not and probably never will be full proof...how questionable was France's penalty against Croatia in the 2018 WC. I certainly don't hate Bulgaria in football and am only giving a personal opinion and I sincerely hope that one day Bulgaria and all other Eastern European teams can win a WC or EC since they've had great teams in the past who unfortunately have underachieved.