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I was reminded of one of Inverness football’s finest moments - a decade before the Celtic Park epic whose silver jubilee approaches - when I saw this January 1990 photo of snowbound Telford Street in today’s PandJ. There’s a fair chance that this was taken in relation to Caley’s Scottish Cup replay against Airdrie on a snowy night at Telford Street, where the team from the Highland League edged its Scottish second tier opponents 5-4 on penalties after a 1-all draw. The outcome, a decade before going ballistic, was another episode in Inverness’s proud Scottish Cup history. One of my great regrets is having had to miss this legendary occasion. The game started 7 minutes late to allow a 3485 crowd in and Caley went a goal down but Wilson Robertson equalised to send the tie to penalties where John Docherty missed Caley’s first one. Airdrie also missed one, taking the shootout to sudden death where Danny MacDonald (the current manager’s brother-in-law) buried Caley’s sixth and Hamish Morrison saved Airdrie’s next to send Telford Street wild. This was a golden era for Inverness in the Scottish Cup since this game came just a few years after Thistle beat Kilmarnock 3-0 at Kingsmills to earn a trip to Celtic Park and Caley played both Rangers and Hearts - although I recollect that at least two of these games ended in 6-0 defeats. Then in 1992, Caley held visitors St Johnstone to a draw and that was just four years before Caley Thistle reached the quarter finals against Rangers. Fast forward another 3 and 4 years and we have back to back semi-final appearances at Hampden… and there were still two finals to come. Putting that lot together makes quite a Scottish Cup saga across four decades!