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Good to learn that Third Lanark were named after the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
Is Lanark the only town to have lost both its racecourse and its professional football club?
The Lanark Silver Bell, now run at Hamilton Park, is reputedly the oldest extant race dating back to the early 17th century, though I think the similarly named Carlisle Bell also claims that honour.
Stranraer 5 Forfar 4 on the Teleprinter clip. Pity the home team wasn’t East Fife!
Googling away I’ve discovered that the tongue-twister East Fife 4 Forfar 5 did finally come true in 2018, but only as the result of a penalty shoot-out
In the early ’70s John Peel had a short-lived programme on Radio Luxembourg entitled ‘Stenhousemuir 2 Cowdenbeath 2’ for no other reason than him just liking the names, which I do too
A pity Cowdenbeath are no longer in the Scottish League. A quick check shows the are languishing in 11th place in the Lowland League.
I think Stenhousemuir was where Highland Toffee was made. Which was delicious but dreadful for the teeth. It must have kept Scottish dentists in profitable work for years.
Third Lanark were one of the Glasgow teams in the shadow of The Old Firm. I don’t know if they drew any support from Lanark itself.
I had always assumed Lanark was a small track with midweek fixtures, so interesting to see it had a Saturday afternoon card.
Watching BBC4 late at night on Friday after the snooker had finished, an old episode of “Top of the Pops” contained this moment of musical history.
It is said that when Graham Kelly interviewed Glenn Hoddle for the job of England manager, he ended by asking “Any skeletons in the closet?” before quipping, “apart from that record with Chris Waddle?”
At least Waddle looked embarrassed and as if he wanted to be somewhere else.
Recorded this. You won’t be surprised my thumb hit the forward wind button when these two came on.
Third Lanark were one of the Glasgow teams in the shadow of The Old Firm. I don’t know if they drew any support from Lanark itself.
Thought I’d sussed where all the oddly-named Scottish teams played, but no, so thanks
A little quiz: where are the following teams based?
Queen of the South
Queens Park
St Mirren
St Johnstone
East Fife
Hibernian
Heart of Midlothian
Cove Rangers
SpartansQueen of the South – up north
Queens Park _ there used to be a Queen’s Gardens in Croydon, but they didn’t play there
St Mirren – in Helen’s garden
St Johnstone – in Jimmy’s garden
East Fife – somewhere east of West Fife
Hibernian – okay, they’re Edinburgh
Heart of Midlothian – so are they
Cove Rangers – in a cove somewhere
Spartans – don’t know where they play, but Gerard Butler is their captainDumfries
Glasgow
Paisley
Perth
Methil
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
EdinburghPick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
St Mirren will always have a place in my heart despite being a rangers man , they are the only club to sack Fergie , for a incident involving the club petty cash … allegedly ….
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
A fabulous rail journey which aside from going past Raith’s ground Stark’s Park, also involves going over both the Forth and Tay Bridges.
A fine journey indeed. I’ve visited Queensferry on the Edinburgh side of the Forth Bridge and there’s a pub there virtually underneath it which is an ideal spot to admire the amazing structure, and the two road bridges
By-the-by: Stephen Hendry lives in Queensferry apparently
Off the top of my head and not checking anything on Wikipedia or looking at the other responses – honest!
Queen of the South: Dumfreis
Queens Park: Glasgow (Hampden Park)
St Mirren: Paisley
St Johnstone: Perth
East Fife: somewhere in Fife, presumably near St Andrew’s.
Hibernian: Edinburgh
Heart of Midlothian: Edinburgh
Cove Rangers: Aberdeenshire
Spartans: EdinburghThen there is Ross County, based in Dingwall.
The entire population of Dingwall can be seated inside the ground, with plenty of spare seats.
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I’d never heard of Cove Rangers and Spartans prior to my survey of the Scottish Leagues for this quiz, and thanks for adding the missing Ross County Corker
Shame that Morton are now called Greenock Morton, as I could have included them too
Could I just add congratulations to my home team York City for gaining promotion back into the EFL League 2 (Fourth Division), after ten years languishing in the National League (Vauxhall Conference).
I really must try and show some interest in them, having only been to a match once, about 15 years ago
Drone for some reason I had a soft spot for your home town team and a few times when they were in London I went to watch them and a few names still stay with me
Crawford the goalkeeper
Topping and swallow I think we’re the centre backs and the little winger Brian Pollard, always wanted to go to Bootham Cresent and when Chelsea visited in 70s I went ended 2-2A great result for York – and courtesy of an equaliser in the 13th minute of added time!
That was after Rochdale had taken the lead in the 95th minute and their over enthusiastic supporters invaded the pitch. Who knows how much more time that caused to be added?
Rochdale will have to take their chance in the play offs but there are a few other big non league teams in that equation.
“Shame that Morton are now called Greenock Morton, as I could have included them too”.
One of their fictional fans is McLaren, played by Tony Osoba in “Porridge”.
In the episode when Fletcher is trying to get some peace and quiet in his cell on a Saturday afternoon, a kitted out for football McLaren tells him he should watch the game instead. When Fletcher asks why he is bothered when he is only playing for his wing of the prison, McLaren replies “I’m playing for Morton. Against Celtic. And we clobber them!”
Sad to think Mr Osoba, along with Christopher Biggins, are the only people from the regular cast still with us (David Jason is as well but he was only in something like three episodes).
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