Owsley Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Hamilton Academical for me......always imagined them strolling around the park saying....'I say, jolly good pass old boy'. Clachnacudden and Gala Fairydean get a special mention. As a nod to Accies past, Dougie Imrie still says this in every game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Well - Villa is an individual house. In Scotland there was a Gala Hailes Villa. England also had teams called Church and Street. Well, if we're going down that road (if you pardon the pun) we have Bradford Park Avenue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Edinburgh University Dumfries & Galloway Students FC must've had great selection difficulties. Whoever it was who liked the idea of a game between Inverness Citadel and Perseverance Arbroath should no doubt like the idea. of Citadel playing a derby against Inverness District Asylum FC, which I understand actually happened in real-life. Another great Inverness Junior club of the inter-war era was Catch-my-Pal. Sadly, I have no idea how the nomenclature came about. Edited December 21, 2014 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Northerner Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Can't beat Catch-my-Pal but Coatbridge based Captain Colt's Rovers were Junior Cup semi-finalists in 1897. Well done Captain Colt - and, indeed, your Rovers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 To return to the flower/plant/tree theme... two of the early Glasgow clubs went simply by the names of Daisy and Orchard. To the joy of ornithologists, and the despair of STD clinicians, the current defending champions of the Airdrie & Coatbridge Sunday League are Thrushbush FC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Glasgow Corporation Transport FC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) To return to the flower/plant/tree theme... two of the early Glasgow clubs went simply by the names of Daisy and Orchard. To the joy of ornithologists, and the despair of STD clinicians, the current defending champions of the Airdrie & Coatbridge Sunday League are Thrushbush FC. That should read Thrashbush. Edited December 21, 2014 by Sergeant Wilson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Glasgow Corporation Transport FC. There is still a Motherwell War Office FC, in the Carluke Sunday League. Edinburgh City, current LL leaders, were once Postal United. They always delivered results... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Edinburgh University Dumfries & Galloway Students FC must've had great selection difficulties. Whoever it was who liked the idea of a game between Inverness Citadel and Perseverance Arbroath should no doubt like the idea. of Citadel playing a derby against Inverness District Asylum FC, which I understand actually happened in real-life. Another great Inverness Junior club of the inter-war era was Catch-my-Pal. Sadly, I have no idea how the nomenclature came about. The catch my pal movement was another temperance movement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Now we are officially way outside league football some of my favourites include Dundee Violet Montrose Roselea Jeanfield Swifts Dundonald Bluebell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Portobello Jube Jubes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 There is still a Motherwell War Office FC, in the Carluke Sunday League.Motherwell War Office is a pub. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel hutz Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Hill of Beath Hawthorn? Yeah, I only just realised this, I put rovers because I was wondering if Gala had changed their name. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Although taken from the regimental name I always liked Third Lanark. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Old club named Ayr Parkhouse. Edinburgh club St. Bernard's. And were Meadowbank Thistle the only team named after a stadium? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies4life Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 As a nod to Accies past, Dougie Imrie still says this in every game. I'd pay to see that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
energyzone Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Glenafton Athletic Irvine Meadow XI FC Hibernian Dalbeattie Star St Cuthbert Wanderers What a beautiful thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I like the originality of our name but Linlithgow Rose and Heart of Midlothian take it for me. Also why do Morton have the suffix they do? Apologies in advance if I'm missing the blatant obvious but it just seems like a strange one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Civil Service Strollers rolls off the tongue quite nicely. Partick Thistle - biased as I am - is a pretty nice sounding name. Heart of Midlothian is a cracking name. On something of a tangent - what about nicknames for sides? I quite like Ayr's (the honest men) and Queen of the South (the Doonhamers) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quitongo's Left Peg Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Glenafton Athletic Made even better for me by their nickname, Flow Gently, coming from a Robert Burns poem. "Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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