Keith Football Club vice-chairman Charlie Simpson pays tribute to Maroons’ goalscoring goalkeeper Craig Reid with his own Kynoch Park Doric verse
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He’s a poet, an lets abiddy in Keith know it!
Long-serving Keith Football Club committee member and current vice-chairman, Charlie Simpson is no stranger to producing some verse in tribute to his beloved Maroons.
Charlie has charted league and cup glories, goalscoring feats and historic moments from the Kynoch Park archives in his own unique way over the years.
His Doric ditties are the stuff of legends, and when a very rare feat in the club’s history was achieved last week, the Friendly Town’s Bard immediately put pen to paper.
Maroons’ keeper Craig Reid was a national sensation when, with his team trailing neighbours and hosts Huntly in the dying embers of a Highland League clash, he ran up the pitch for his team’s corner kick.
The rest is history, as the custodian’s overhead kick bulged the Huntly net and stretched Keith’s unbeaten run to eight games - the celebrations were quite something special.
Charlie has since composed a commemorative verse, which debuted on the Keith Football Club Facebook page.
Craig Reid - the Goalscorin’ Goalie
Jings, ye’d better believe it
Kiz I sa’ it at first hand
The nicht Craigie Reid scored
I wiz sittin’ in the Huntly Stand
There wizna muckle in it
The first half o’ the game
Fin the Ref he blew his peeper
I hoped the second half wizna the same
Play flew fae eynd tae eynd
In fac’ Keith hid already scored
Lewis Coull hit the back o’ the net
Judged affside? - Nivir – Good Lord!
The Maroons were the better team
As abiddy there cwid see
Fin Huntly scored late on
Wiz it jist nae gaun’ tae be
Bit Keith, they stuck tae the task
They’re made o’ richt stern stuff
Werena’ gaun tae gie up
Wintit tae pit Huntly in the huff
Craig Ewen’s boys kept pushin’
The hame side on the back fit
Wid we mak’ the brakthrough?
Wi’ abiddy deein’ their bit
Then cam’ Lynchie’s corner
Wi’ the seconds tickin’ awa’
Craig toddled up the Park
Made overheid connection wi’ the ba’
It wiz a perfect hit
Landed richt in the ingin bag
Triggered great Maroon Mania
An’ the Huntly heids tae sag
Craigie took aff lik’ a bullet
Team mates chasin’ ahin’
Lik’ Benny Hill in fu’ flow
We’re celebratin’ – makkin’ a din
The ref he blew his fussle
Tae signal it wiz time up
Maroons delirious wi’ delight
Ye’d hiv thocht we’d won a Cup
Craig, he’s saved a puckle
At his ain eynd o’ the Park
Bit that nicht at Huntly
Twiz at the ither eynd he made his mark
A rare feat indeed
In fac’, only twice in a hunner’ ‘eer
That a Keith goalie hiz scored
So – tae Craig Reid – “The Goalscorin’ Goalie” – A Hefty Cheer!!
Charlie Simpson
March 2024
