Into The Valley-Dunfermline

[Into The Valley]

Dunfermline Athletic F.C. are the latest in a long line of football clubs suffering from years of financial mismanagement at the hands of the blazerati, who have been masquerading as upstanding custodians of our proud 128-year-old football club.

Our club is now in administration and Pars fans are pulling together to raise enough funds to get us through the remaining weeks of the season.

One of our initiatives is a fundraising evening at East End Park this Saturday, where we will have a number of ex-players and managers appearing. We are also running an auction and raffle and we are appealing to the wider football community to lend us a hand.

You can do this by purchasing a raffle ticket for £5. Payment can be made via Paypal to: matthew_lafferty@hotmail.com.

Here is a list of raffle prizes you could win:

* Signed (x 10) 1961 Pars Scottish Cup-winning team photograph
* Collection of signed football memorabilia (2 signed Southampton pics, signed Ipswich Town programme, signed Tim Howard pic)
* Framed DAFC 'Dream Team' presentation
* Squad-signed Pars First Division champs photo
* Richie Byrne's signed, matchworn Nike Mercurial boots
* 'The Complete Poems & Songs of Robert Burns' book, signed by the First Minister, Alex Salmond
* 'A Shirt Box Full of Songs' book, signed by Barbara Dickson
* 'Hibs Boy' book, signed by Andy Blance
* Pars home top signed by Toploader
* Athletic Club Bilbao home top
* Match-prepared, squad-signed Pars 'Harris 55' long-sleeved away top
* Paton and Campbell signed Pars photo with First Division trophy
* 3 signed Stewart Petrie Testimonial programmes
* Framed, signed Scotland top
* One night dinner, bed & breakfast at the Pitbauchlie, Dunfermline
* The Big Black & White book, signed by 11
* Alhambra Theatre poster for the cancelled event, 'Pars Cup Heroes', signed by 11
* Signed Dumbarton top
* Signed Pars balls x 4
* Signed Alloa ball
* Signed Hibs ball
* Signed Cowdenbeath ball
* Squad-signed Cowdenbeath home top
* Bottle of Cowdenbeath whiskey
* Woodrow's Pars 1991-92 calendar, signed by 16
* 2011-12 championship-winning Pars photograph, signed by 22
* Sheffield Wednesday squad signed top
* Pars-style jewellery
* Signed Sale Sharks top
* Matchworn, squad-signed Raith Rovers long-sleeved top
* Squad-signed Pars home top
* Squad-signed, Scotland rugby top
* Matchworn, signed Marco Ruitenbeek Pars goalie top
* Pars black and red away top signed by 25 legends
* Irn Bru SFL ball, signed by 25 Pars legends
* Signed Gordon & Sarah Brown books

Your £5 will make a huge difference and we appreciate any assistance you can give us.

Reading player and ex Dunfermline forward Noel Hunt has kindly donated a match worn Reading shirt from this season. You can bid on this by contacting Matthew on the above email address and he will send any pictures required too. The shirt is fantastic and is signed by the full Royals squad.

For more info and photographs of our items, check out our Facebook (intothevalleydafc) and Twitter (@parsodyssey).

All the best,
Into The Valley

[Jay o/]

Wish you all the best, but I'm f**ked if I'm putting my money towards a Scottish club.

Good luck.

[Stuka]

"The Complete Poems & Songs of Robert Burns' book, signed by the First Minister, Alex Salmond"

Delusional lunatic.

[Cobi]

Wish you all the best, but I'm f**ked if I'm putting my money towards a Scottish club.

Good luck.

Jay o/ sat on the fence there. Sadly a lot of clubs are in big trouble. There seems to be a few each season now. My money is being put aside for Reading AFC when our club goes under some time in the future. Good luck though.

[From Despair To Where?]

Easy to forget that arguably the finest 2 Scottish managers to have lived (Jock Stein and Alex Ferguson) first made a name for themselves with the Pars.

[Big Ern]

One of the main reasons Scottish football is so dire is that there are far too many clubs. Dunfermline going bust would probably do the league a favour.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss about you clubs. Scots are such bigoted people and have no problem slagging us off at every opportunity and often support England's opposition more than your own national team. Now you come to us cap in hand...for that alone, go fook yourself.

[Jackson Corner]

In for the Barbera Dickson song book.

[blindedbythelights]

Wish you all the best, but I'm f**ked if I'm putting my money towards a Scottish club.

Good luck.

hard to argue with that

One of the main reasons Scottish football is so dire is that there are far too many clubs. Dunfermline going bust would probably do the league a favour.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss about you clubs. Scots are such bigoted people and have no problem slagging us off at every opportunity and often support England's opposition more than your own national team. Now you come to us cap in hand...for that alone, go fook yourself.

or that

[sandman]

One of the main reasons Scottish football is so dire is that there are far too many clubs. Dunfermline going bust would probably do the league a favour.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss about you clubs. Scots are such bigoted people and have no problem slagging us off at every opportunity and often support England's opposition more than your own national team. Now you come to us cap in hand...for that alone, go fook yourself.

As are the English by the looks of it.

[ankeny]

I detest that smug fat little git Salmond.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Wish you all the best, but I'm f**ked if I'm putting my money towards a Scottish club.

Good luck.

hard to argue with that

One of the main reasons Scottish football is so dire is that there are far too many clubs. Dunfermline going bust would probably do the league a favour.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss about you clubs. Scots are such bigoted people and have no problem slagging us off at every opportunity and often support England's opposition more than your own national team. Now you come to us cap in hand...for that alone, go fook yourself.

or that

You could kick 20+ clubs out of the Scottish League. It wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the gates at Partick or Ayr or Dunfermine.

The problem with Scottish football is that far too many of the population support Rangers or Celtic. Having them play in England would help the Scottish clubs either. They'd still get the fans and all the media coverage.

[LUX]

One of the main reasons Scottish football is so dire is that there are far too many clubs. Dunfermline going bust would probably do the league a favour.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss about you clubs. Scots are such bigoted people and have no problem slagging us off at every opportunity and often support England's opposition more than your own national team. Now you come to us cap in hand...for that alone, go fook yourself.

yeah the English aren't bigoted. In fact this post shows what a great, not-at-all chippy bunch we are. Well done Ern.

[Big Ern]

One of the main reasons Scottish football is so dire is that there are far too many clubs. Dunfermline going bust would probably do the league a favour.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss about you clubs. Scots are such bigoted people and have no problem slagging us off at every opportunity and often support England's opposition more than your own national team. Now you come to us cap in hand...for that alone, go fook yourself.

yeah the English aren't bigoted. In fact this post shows what a great, not-at-all chippy bunch we are. Well done Ern.

You try living there for 3 years, you might just change your tune.