It鈥檚 finally happened!
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IT is the scoreline generations of British football fans have longed to see and on Sunday it finally came true, in a way at least.
East Fife 4, Forfar 5 was the result of a penalty shootout in Group B of the Scottish League Cup after the teams had been locked at 1-1.
The late English comedian Eric Morecambe used the tongue-twister “East Fife 4, Forfar 5” as a greeting to his friend James Alexander Gordon, who read the classified football results on BBC Radio for 40 years.
“Eric never called me James,” Gordon, who died in 2014, said of Morecambe, himself a football fan, in a BBC interview. “Whenever I saw him over a 20-year period, he would say ‘East Fife 4 Forfar 5’. I’ve got a tape of that.”
There had been two previous occasions when the dreamt-of scoreline involving the two Scottish lower league clubs almost took place.
Back in January 1964 the “wrong” team was at home for Forfar 5, East Fife 4 and in October 2011 the final score was East Fife 4, Forfar 3.
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