Okay, so today I decided to tackle Dundee football fixtures because honestly, trying to find ’em scattered all over the place was driving me nuts. Woke up early, grabbed my cold brew coffee, and thought: Right, need one damn place to see every single match without jumping through hoops.
Starting Point Was Total Chaos
Opened my laptop and first went straight to the official league website. Took ages just to load, and when it did? Fixtures buried under fifty different tabs like “Fan Zone” and “Corporate Sponsors”. Clicked through three layers of menus just to find a partial list missing away games. Said screw this and tried another unofficial stats site – had dates but zero info on ticket sales or TV coverage. Felt like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle with half the bits missing.
My Manually Scraping Mission
Grabbed a notepad and started brute-forcing it:
- Opened the club’s actual homepage – slow as hell but found some match dates in the news section.
- Dug into three different local news blogs for postponed matches they’d announced last minute.
- Stalked Dundee’s social media page for kickoff times.
- Even asked my cousin Rab (diehard Dee fan) to forward old emails from their mailing list.
Took me two full hours copying & pasting dates into a messy spreadsheet. Kept cross-checking because some sources still had last season’s derby game listed. Madness.
How I Organized the Fixture Hell
Finally dumped everything into a simple calendar format:
Home games in bold blue – so they pop out at me.
Away games in regular black.
Added extra notes like:
🎟️ when tickets went on sale
📺 for matches on telly
⚠️ for rescheduled clusterfs
Printed two copies – stuck one on the fridge and saved a digital backup. No more guessing or frantic last-minute Google searches.
Why Bother Doing This Manual Grind?
Truth? Because most fixture sites either bomb you with gambling ads or only show Premier League crap. Small clubs like Dundee get shoved aside. Now when mates ask “When’s the next derby?”, I whip out my sheet before they finish the sentence. And yeah – added Hibs away day in May with a giant star ⭐️ ’cause we always get wrecked there. Prepared is half the battle!