Blether: Dundee played a league game against Hibs and a Forfarshire Cup in ONE day

Earlier this year, Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola bemoaned the fact his players had to play several games in a short space of time over the festive period.

He should ask the players what the alternative would be… less games and less coverage by TV
companies equates to less money brought into the EPL, thus players’ wage packets may not be so bulging.

Anyway, there were times when teams actually played two games in one day without complaint.

Barry Sullivan, of the DC Thomson archives department, sent me over this wonderful cutting citing Dundee FC’s ‘unique record’: