HibeeJibee Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Commonly abbreviated 'UB United' but glorying in the full moniker 'United Biscuits United' this Strathclyde Saturday Morning FL side contest the West of Scotland Amateur Cup final at Hamilton tomorrow. I'm assuming it's a works team/endorsement from the Tollcross factory, ex-"McVities". What other examples survive of: 1) works/institution clubs (e.g. Inverurie Loco Works/Motherwell War Office); 2) repetition (e.g. Rutherglen Glencairn)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 1) Bayer Leverkusen, Carl Zeiss Jena and Ferranti Thistle spring to mind here. Almost all professional Japanese teams were born from company sponsored teams that existed before the foundation of the J-league. For example Sanfrecce Hiroshima was known as Mazda Sports Club pre J-league2) Colo Colo are a top side in Chile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 1) PSV (Philips Sport Verenging) Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Quilmes Atletico Club in Argentina, although probably named after the district not the beer even though nickname is The Brewers. English non-league sides Vauxhall Motors and Swindon Supermarine. 2) Woy Woy FC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 not sure what the current incarnation is called - just Leamington FC I think - but Lockheed Leamington in the midlands were started in the late 1930's as the works team of the company that went on to become Automotive Products in the 1980's there was a team called Road Sea Southampton who played in the Southern League - works team of a freight forwarding company based on the Solent more locally to where I am now, there was British Oil & Cake Mills in the medway towns and various paper mill teams in the Kent League; Cray Valley Paper Mills F C started in 1919 and are still going Prescot Cables on merseyside - derived from the British Insulated Cable company if you're going to count miner's welfare clubs, there were Betteshanger and Snowdown, also Kent League, plus - obviously - loads in Yorkshire, the north east and the like which are still going - Brodsworth, Bentley Victoria, Rainworth in Notts - Frickley Athletic used to be Frickley Colliery Athletic, Atherton Colliery in Manchester etc..... and - of course - Manchester United started life as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 suppose we'd best add another couple of high profile works teams to the list too: West Ham United (Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company) Arsenal (Dial Square - part of the Royal Woolwich Arsenal) and when Arsenal went professional, the workers at the same place formed Royal Ordnance Factories F.C who played in the Southern League ...and a quick look at a comprehensive list of football club names indicates that there are loads and loads of other examples - A C Delco, Brydon Ropes, Stamco, BAT Sports, AFC Zeneca, Martin Baker Sports (ejector seat manufacturers !) - loads of 'em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Raith Rovers are a bunch of jobbers, does this count??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 before the infamous Scotland-Italy game in 2007 I seem to recall going to see an amateur game at cathkin park between third Lanark and RR east Kilbride, the RR standing for rolls Royce. Would that be correct or am I talking pish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Civil Service Strollers and Met Police spring to mind, purely through FM experiences! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpar Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Sevco.... The Welsh leagues seem to be good for works teams past and present, TNS, Airbus FC and Inter CableTel. Off topic a little but I've played ice hockey against a team called Dundee Michelin who's badge is the Michelin man with a hockey stick in his hand. I believe they were founded in the 80s as a factory team, I found it strange to think there were that many amateur ice hockey players working in the factory at the time to form their own team. Unless there were a lot of migrant workers from places like Czechoslovakia etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Forres Mechanics must have had some mechanics play for them at some time. PSNI and Harland & Wolff Welders in Irish League 2nd tier. A lot of Austrian Bundesliga teams have sponsors in their name, Flyeralarm Admira, Cashpoint SCR Altach, RZ Pellets WAC, Red Bull Salzburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 Burntisland Shipyard. They could've derbied with Rosyth Dockyard. Dunbar Blue Circle (connected with the cement works), Edinburgh City Police, Edinburgh Civil Service, Ferranti Thistle and Postal Utd (who are now Edinburgh City the SPFL2 club) all used to play in the East of Scotland League. Crichton Royal (the hospital) played in SOSL. Babcock & Wilcox and Glasgow Corporation Transport played in the Scottish Cup until the 1960s-70s. Been various uni/college, military and school FPs. Inverurie could've derbied with Hyde Park Loco Works. EDIT: India Inchinnan - the rubbertyre manufacturers - used to join the big boys in the Renfrewshire Cup. Dumbarton Union - was that the poorhouse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 20 minutes ago, Eednud said: Forres Mechanics must have had some mechanics play for them at some time. PSNI and Harland & Wolff Welders in Irish League 2nd tier. A lot of Austrian Bundesliga teams have sponsors in their name, Flyeralarm Admira, Cashpoint SCR Altach, RZ Pellets WAC, Red Bull Salzburg. I'm sure that just before Forres Mechanics played Sevco in the Scottish Cup @craigkillie edited the Forres wikipedia page to include some nonsense about the origin of the 'Mechanics' suffix only for some of our dearly beloved media outlets to publish this nonsense as fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 17 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Dumbarton Union - was that the poorhouse? Probably the local tech college's pissed up students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 up to the mid 90's there was a team playing in Herfordshire (I C L Letchworth) who were the direct descendants of the marvelously named Hollerith Tabulator Sports FC who had played in the 1950's a Hollerith Tabulator was an early form of computer - some sort of punched card reader - which were produced by the British Tabulating Machine Company, based in Hertfordshire, and who made the machines that the boffins at Bletchley Park used to break the German codes in the war ! this lot evolved in to International Computers & Tabulators Ltd - who ended up buying the computing division of Ferranti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 49 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: I'm sure that just before Forres Mechanics played Sevco in the Scottish Cup @craigkillie edited the Forres wikipedia page to include some nonsense about the origin of the 'Mechanics' suffix only for some of our dearly beloved media outlets to publish this nonsense as fact. Yep, this happened. It made it into The Telegraph and The Daily Record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 12 hours ago, Eednud said: 2) Woy Woy FC Manager: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 11 minutes ago, craigkillie said: Yep, this happened. It made it into The Telegraph and The Daily Record. i'm hugely in favour of making stuff up and passing it off as fact; there are a good few ice hockey fans in Buffalo, New York who are absolutely convinced that the term "hat-trick" comes from an old farming term along the lines of - three handfuls of wheat make a sheaf, three sheaves make a stook, and three stooks make a rick; and when the three stooks are stood up in the field the rick looks like a conical hat - hence a hat-rick for anything involving multiples of three sounds complete bollocks, obviously, but when you then post accompanying pictures of ancient English folk-rituals involving pointy straw hats - very like these mooted "hat ricks" - then it all becomes far more plausible particularly if you are an american and therefore congenitally moronic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 http://www.ncefl.org.uk/ There's more miners teams than you can shake a stick at in the NCEL. Off the top of my head Billingham Synthonia in the NL. I think Washington might have been the Nissan works team at one time. Jarrow Roofing, although that's a sponsorship thing. Bridon Ropes in the SCEL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 2) If the team currently based at Ibrox go bust, we’ll have The The Rangers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Provan Gas Works and Blochairn Iron Works both played in the Junior Cup in 1925. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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