Scottish League 2.

[Colin C No.3]

This weekend throws up that ‘ever waited for’ fixture.

East Fife vs Forfar.

Any thoughts on a score line?






I’m going for a 2-0!

[Reg of the Rovers]

This weekend throws up that ‘ever waited for’ fixture.

East Fife vs Forfar.

Any thoughts on a score line?






I’m going for a 2-0!

Wonder what odds you'd get on a 4-5?

[Colin C No.3]

On a cold & windy (of course it was, it’s Scotland!) Wednesday evening on April 22nd 1964, the scoreline that was forever to be associated with the late, great & much missed Eric Morecombe came to fruition.

Forfar 4 - East Fife 5.

[Jimmydee]

It was a common joke for years, East fife 4, Forfar 5

[Donnywolf]

Can't find odds but 200 to 1 for EF 5 For 2 or 275 to 1 for 5 - 2 to Forfar

[scawsby steve]

It was Ronnie Barker who I heard first with that crack.

He was a genius with plays on words.

[Silkscarf]

It’s a good gag but the pedant in me always wants to point out it’s Forfar ‘Athletic’. So whoever reports the score would have to drop that bit of their name to fit the joke.

[Donnywolf]

I

It was Ronnie Barker who I heard first with that crack.

He was a genius with plays on words.

I had to dig a bit because I thought it preceded Ronnie Barker and every article I found (
dozens ) gave the credit to Eric Morecambe

It's hard to find the definitive who said it first but this is probably as near as it gets

It was Morecambe and Wise’s prime-time TV contemporaries, The Two Ronnies, who further propelled the two low-profile league clubs from footballing footnotes to full blown pop cultural references when they cleverly slipped the fixture into a sketch where they read out a tongue-twisting version of the Scottish football results which concluded ‘East Fife 5 Forfar so far 4’.

[In the box]

East Fife 5 Forfar 4

[dknward2]

Any of you into football manger a youtuber called lollujo who's a posh fan but I won't hold that against him is doing a twitch save with east fife and has played forfar a few times but has never managed the 5-4 score line

[POD]

On a cold & windy (of course it was, it’s Scotland!) Wednesday evening on April 22nd 1964, the scoreline that was forever to be associated with the late, great & much missed Eric Morecombe came to fruition.

Forfar 4 - East Fife 5.

I’ve found this link to a league cup tie between the two sides which ended up with the desired score line albeit after a penalty shootout…. It also mentions the 1964 match quoted above.


Dream result achieved: East Fife 4, Forfar 5 in penalty shootout
Reuters
Jul 23, 2018, 03:43 AM
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"East Fife 4, Forfar 5," regarded by some as the perfect football scoreline due to its rhyming nature and rhythmic intonation when spoken out loud, came to pass on Sunday -- in a fashion.

East Fife hosted Forfar Athletic in Scottish League Cup Group B and the teams could not be separated after 90 minutes as the match finished at 1-1.

The resulting penalty shootout produced the score that has been associated with both clubs since broadcaster James Alexander Gordon read the classified results on the BBC.

Many had wanted to hear Scotsman Gordon say "East Fife 4, Forfar 5" in his famous dulcet tones.

But the only time the result occurred was in the 1964 Scottish second division campaign, 10 years before Gordon began reading the results