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The statue is indeed that of Hughie Mcllmoyle a CUFC icon. He can still be found at home games outside the main stand chatting to fans pre-match, having queued up with everyone else to buy his ticket, as he refuses to take freebies. Always makes me chuckle, walk past your statue and queue up to buy a ticket. An absolute gentleman.

Bill Shankley started his professional football career at Carlisle in the 1932/1933 season playing 16 times ,he then returned as manager from 1949 to 1951 , a great man . I am writing this sitting in the stand waiting for kick off against Bolton , come on you Blues

Carlisle United is a lovely club. Been down to see them 2 or 3 times prior to the pandemic and enjoyed the atmosphere very much. Very passionate supporters and a great old school type stadium. Can’t wait to get back.

I live outside Edinburgh and quite regularly go down to watch Carlisle. Lovely club to follow. Cumberland sausage at half time and a good pub right across the road from the ground. Looking forward to visiting again after COVID

I love the old skool stadiums,set in working class areas, surrounded by the community. Far too many new soulless arenas now, miles from everything.

Halfway through and no Jimmy Glass mention yet...

Carlisle is an underappreciated city. It's got a beautiful centre good shopping and it's castle. It's also easy to do a day trip to from Scotlands Central belt by train.

Just caught up with this one, loved it, working my way back through some of your older vids, I was here in 2002, doesn't seem to have changed one little bit !!! Proper football ground ...

I have great memories of my Dad taking me up to Brunton Park in the late 90s. The atmosphere was always incredible, warm, welcoming and family friendly. I am also privileged enough to have witnessed the ground full on a few occasions for special cup ties against Sheffield Wednesday (top of PL at time), Spurs and Arsenal. Thanks for the video!

Love the amount of effort you put into this, the research into the history of both the club and the city. I'm glad you liked our city and our club. Hopefully you can get to a game one time :-) btw, it is McIlmoyle in the statue. He played for us on 3 separate occasions. Another interesting fact about the team is that, in our only time in the top flight, we had the same Goalkeeper as we had when we were in the bottom tier. I think he was the first player to do that. Allan Ross was the name if you're interested :-)

Another fascinating video mate. Merry Christmas and a happy new year when it comes to you and all your family Sam.

Carlisle topped the old English First Division in the 70’s . Another enjoyable clip.

Merry Christmas sam from millwall smithy 👍🦁🦁....well done for visiting all 42 scottish league clubs... absolutely loved each and every video... legend 👍👍👍🎉🍻

Thanks for the video, it's brilliant to see Brunton Park up close again. I haven't been to Brunton Park for almost a decade, it's a beautiful ground although it probably needs some modernizing. I was hoping to travel to the UK (I'm an Aussie who has supported Carlisle for more than 40 years) to see the Cumbrian derby this season, but COVID killed that dream. It's great to see Carlisle playing so well this season, I hope they can continue during the second half of the season and win promotion to League One.

Really enjoyable clips

Have a good Christmas and a happy New year when it comes all the best loved your video on the Blantyre Vic's it was good to see my home town club get some media coverage.

Happy Holidays Sam! Looking forward to your 2021 vlogs!

I’m a Killie fan and a few seasons back when we did well in the seasons we got a bye to the next round in the league cup so our usual weekend match day wasn’t on as whoever we were playing had cup commitments. £10 for a train down to Carlisle and I went to a game, Carlisle Utd vs MK Dons. There is a link with my club as midfielder Gary Dicker was a Carlisle player.

happy days seen my team Charlton promoted twice at Carlisle keep up the good work

You did some good videos on Scottish football. Thanks.

My team Guiseley played Carlisle in the FA Cup back in the early 90s. We lost 4-1 but had our record attendance of 6,000 as we played it at Bradford City's ground.

Used to go up there for holiday, so I been to Brunton Park three times - I saw Cardiff City, Aston Villa and Celtic (a friendly) - so three games against clubs from three countries !

Merry Christmas Footy adventures....good luck in 2021 for you and your channel 💚

Went to Carlisle castle when I went to the UK as a teenager,I remember the moat very well,the guy who helped us organise our trip was a Carlisle fan, a friend of the family who worked for Qantas, great trip got to watch two Liverpool matches from the Kop,79/80 season, I was a mad football fan as a kid, obsessed by the Reds.

Really enjoyed that as a Carlisle fan. Just an FYI Gretna is only around 6 miles away, not 20! Great video 👍🏻

Another good video. Merry Christmas fella and all the best for the new year and future videos

My club! Get in Sam! Thanks for covering this! :) COYB

I did what you did at Carlisle once even went on the pitch They have a great ground

Always liked going up there even though it was a long way ! Great ground.

Thanks for coming to Carlisle, enjoyed the video, be nice to see you at a game one day.

Great film Sam.. Merry Christmas

Great video, would love to go to a game there, could see the floodlights from the motorway driving down to England.

"you might be watching this in a years time, when stadiums are full again" thats me!

Not been to Carlisle in ages, and I only live in Annan!

Bill Shankly used to read his team selections to the crowd on the tannoy system and explain his team selection to them, we also won leauge 2 in our first season back after the conference, we also beat a full strength AS Roma side in Rome 3-2 in the early 70’s in tne Anglo Italian cup......

Can’t wait to be able to watch a game here for the 92 club!

Hes slowly sneaking into the English Leagues haha love it. Always welcome to Billingham Town in The Northern League. Second oldest league in the world. Could be interesting..

Merry Christmas mate hope you have a wonderful day!

You've done very well all things considered, happy Christmas pal👍👍👍👍

Drove from Midlothian to see Carlisle play spurs good atmosphere at the game

Great video. You should look at covering the grounds of all the English Conference & Scottish Lowland & Highland league clubs as they are little known compared tothe League clubs.

i remember the 07/08 season. I'm a donny rovers fan, it was tight all year. swansea, forest, rovers, leeds, carlisle all neck and neck for months. so exciting. carlisle never made it that year and slid into lg 2 a few seasons later, but I'll never forget how much carlisle utd scared the sh1t out of me that season!

Great video from a carlisle fan

Way back in the 70s I recall Carlisle playing a season in division 1 and I think their home shirts featured the fox.

In answer to the title - NEVER! HA But a great video coming from a CUFC fan. Big Hughie is alive and well - you don't often get a statue before your end! Lovely gent he is too. We may be just 7 mile from the border but happy on the English side but Scots are always welcome at the games. Great video. Well informed and passionate. I share your love of grounds. Subscribed for sure. Thank you.

Last time I watched Carlisle they played Bournemouth 2006ish and Darren Anderton played his last game for Bournemouth 👍

Great video. How did you manage to miss the name Jimmy Glass? 😂⚽️

It’s looking like will Be in league 1 next season

Brilliant!!! Come on Carlisle! We’d have stayed up in 75 if we’d had three points for a win rather than 2. Nearly 18000 capacity, indeed but my mate catters turns up at 12:00 hrs each match day for fear of a lock out! Up the blues!

They topped the old English First Division in the 1974/75 season . The season prior to that I had a season ticket at the ripe old age of 12 :)

Good idea. its much easier to get to than Berwick..............Oh and have a merry Christmas.

I would like you to do a feature on Workington FC , great old club with Bill Shankley and Keith Burkinshaw as former managers .

Class video mate, no mention of Jimmy glass?

When will you come to Lowestoft Football Club I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year mate your videos every time I watch them make me really happy p.and send I've been watching your videos I've been having brilliant day

A nod to the IRN-BRU sign and the fact my team Forest Green Rovers is playing there next week.

Thanks for visiting our club.

Enjoyed the video - some good research on the club too. Few extra bits... Gretna is probably nearer to 9 or 10 miles so it's even closer than you think! St James' Park is indeed a little bit further north (just 0.08 N latitude!). Shankly also described Brunton Park as a "glorified hen coop" and used to go on the tannoy before games and say "This is your manager speaking" before explaining his team selection to the fans. If you do make it to a game sometime, please give me a shout as I host a CUFC podcast (The Brunton Bugle - www.bruntonbugle.com) and would love to meet up, always happy to chat all things the mighty Blues!

One very hard thing for clubs like Carlisle is signing players who then have to commute every day for training and games.

Hiya Sam, there was talk of Carlisle coming into the scottish league, when Gretna went out, i don't think its a bad idea for Carlisle to enter scottish league next season, they'll make the Premier League in 3 years

Fantastic vlogmas

Another good video Was down there for a game vs Notts County in 2017 One of the easiest grounds to get to and very friendly staff/ fans

Hiya Sam, Carlisle were the first team to beat Celtic when Celtic won the European Cup, Carlisle beat Celtic 2-0,in a pre season friendly game

I also quite like Barrow AFC. They were absolutely scintillating in the Conference last season under Ian Evatt; and I wouldn't be surprised if they make the Championship/ Premier League one day - and I heard they just hired promising young manager Michael Jolley as head coach. Keep a lookout on them!

U should come to my town called hebburn they have a football club called hebburn town fc and a really nice ground that has a big screen. Its very nice for an amateur team.

Carlisle would do well in Scotland. Would be at least in the second tier potentially. Problem is financially they would lose money playing in Scotland. Would be a good derby with Queen Of The South though.

If you go to Carlisle on Boxing Day they will be playing my team Bolton. Please get behind them because they really need it at the moment. Merry Christmas.

Hey mate u OK Are you coming back To Brunton park for A other game this season 💙

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Merry xmas

Would be far nearer to travel to matches ... would gain if they could stay up in the SPL , but they would probably yo yo and gates would really suffer in the Scottish second tier

Very different video M8 good luck with ur game tommrow

You dae some serious amount ae driving mate 😂

Footy Adventures can you tell me the distance between Carlisle United Home Ground and Carlisle City Home Ground? I am in Australia, I play Football Manager. Maybe you can one day do a video on both Carlisle United and Carlisle City?

Kyem on the Beech Boys!!! 💙💙💙

The oldest sporting trophy in the world is battled for every year at the Carlisle racecourse. The Carlisle Silver Bell dates from 1599, the time Elizabeth 1st.

It's shocking the amount of English folk( especially in the south) that think towns like Carlisle and Berwick are Scottish. I as a Scot, would have them in a heartbeat. Newcastle aswell. Great people.

Prior to buying out Gretna and taking them to the SPL, Brooks Mileson had attempted to buy Carlisle United. Maybe he'd have tried to take them on that same adventure through the Scottish leagues?

Could Carlisle play in the SPFL? Yes they could given their location but they would lose financially not being in the English system and even a big club like Carlisle might bawk and the prospect of winter trip to Elgin or Inverness. Fro memory I think Gateshead once thought about joining the SPFL, I might have been around the time Gretna won the nomination to join. While in Carlisle did you visit Northern League side Carlisle City?

IT WAS THE FIRST FOUR GAMES

What I would love is the English and Scottish League Cup merging. Would love to travel north of the border. The only problem would be the idiots that kind of fixture would attract.

Could you do a video like this on Berwick Rangers?

Carlisle would be a like St Johnstone: Kilmarnock top 8 in SPL

The most famous Carlisle united players are Jimmy glass peter beardsley stan Bowles and Alan Ross! The 2 goalkeeper's are probably the best loved!!

That boxing day fixture against BW is where it all began to go wrong 😭

would make sense for Carlisle to join Scottish league with central belt and Edinburgh only hours away.

I'm almost sure that UEFA wouldn't permit Carlisle United to play in Scotland. As I understand it the only reason Berwick Rangers can play in Scotland and , Cardiff City and Swansea City in the English leagues is for historic reasons. I happy to corrected if I'm wrong.

Take they it’s such a long away day for every club in our lesson they would be better in Scotland

if Carlisle went into the Scottish leagues they'd be a Scottish premiership regular team

You can roll a turd in glitter but it’s still a turd

Possible I guess I have often wondered how many Scottish fans have been to that ground compared to other English grounds 🤣🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜 have a good new year everyone just subb thought I had already have now 👍👍👍

If they could join the Scottish league they would be in the top 5 or 6 teams in Scotland.

Should visit Berwick rangers

As a Carlisle fan I would refuse to play in the Scottish league we are English for a reason

In a parallel universe, Carlisle United could play in the Champions League...alongside Newcastle. Xx

Carlisle is in tier 2 so there are able to have 2000 supporters

If Berwick can,Carlisle can and so can Newcastle Utd!

Probably should tbh, same as Gretna at did at one point.

Up the Blues! We're going up!

Capacity is nowhere near 18k more like 9k I’m pretty sure