Away From The Numbers
All good things come to an end. Or so they say. AFTN has been around since 1989, first as a fanzine and then making the jump to a website and forum in 2003. We've been through the many ups and down at East Fife in those 12 years but policing the forum has become a giant pain in the ass in recent years. As such, we made the decision not to renew it when it expired.
The forum is no more and will remain as a locked archive until it is eventually deleted by the host. We're looking in to try to save some of the content as an archive.
This is not the end of AFTN though. The site will continue and will be revamped and return in its full glory for the start of the 2016/17 season. Maybe even sooner. There will be a comment sections and possibly even a new, registered forum. Check our Twitter (@aftnwebsite) for all the latest info and we'll also post in on the EFFC memories Facebook page.
Until then, have a last browse here, thanks for all your support over the years, and 'Mon the Fife.
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There's a good article about former East Fife favourite Colin Methven in today's Sunday Post (Yesterday's Heroes, page 54).
It tells the story about how he was transferred from East Fife to Wigan in 1979.
The Fifers played Wigan in a pre-season friendly at Bayview and, when awarded a corner, a wee boy poked his head into the 'away' dug-out and told the Wigan manager that Colin would score. "How do you know that?" asked the manager. "Because he always does" was the reply. Colin duly obliged by heading home from the corner, after which the wee boy poked his head into the dug-out again and said "told you!".
A few months later, when the Wigan manager was looking for a centre-half, he remembered the incident at Bayview, and Colin signed for Wigan for £30,000.
Nice story - but who was the wee boy? I reckon it must have been Liam, because only someone with his height would have been able to lean over the barrier and twist his body around into the dug-out.
Just checked back my records - and found out that Colin Methven didn't score in that game. The goals came from Herd and Lumsden.
Looks like the Sunday Post is telling porkies!
will email him and see what he says but hes unlikely to be up before Easter plus he prefers to play golf on Saturdays but dont most of us nowadays 
