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Bathgate Thistle F.C.
Bathgate Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of Bathgate, West Lothian. They play in the . Nicknamed ''Thistle'', they were formed in 1937 and presently play their home games at Creamery Park, which has room for 3,000 spectators. Their home shirts are blue with a white trim and their away shirts are black with a white trim. In 2006, Thistle reached the final of the Scottish Junior Cup, losing 2–1 to Auchinleck Talbot at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, in front of around 7,000 spectators. In 2008, the club reached the final again, this time defeating Cumnock Juniors 2–1. Thistle have a community football club involving some of the town's youth sides under Bathgate Juniors and are the pathway to senior adult football in the town of Bathgate.The Senior side is managed by Gordon Wilson.The U20's started in 22/23 and play in the Scottish Lowland Development League. Coaching staff Source Current squad As of January 2023 Man ...
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Creamery Park
Creamery Park is a football ground located in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. It serves as the home ground of East Region Super League outfit Bathgate Thistle Bathgate Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of Bathgate, West Lothian. They play in the . Nicknamed ''Thistle'', they were formed in 1937 and presently play their home games at Creamery Park, which has room .... Previously it had been home to the Rangers Reserve team, until a rule change forced them to move elsewhere. More recently, it was also home to the Motherwell Under-19 team. Also at Creamery Park are a clubhouse, and a floodlit five-a-side pitch behind one goal, as well as high-quality changing facilities. The ground has a capacity of around 3,000 spectators. References External links Stadium information on Non-LeagueScotland.com Bathgate Thistle F.C. Football venues in Scotland Sports venues in West Lothian Bathgate {{Scotland-sports-venue-stub ...
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Derek Strickland
Derek Strickland (born 7 November 1959) is a Scottish former professional football player. Strickland joined Rangers in 1978 and made his debut for the club on 23 August that year in a League Cup match away to Albion Rovers. His second, and final, appearance for the club came at the end of that season in a 2-1 league defeat to Hibernian. In 1979 Strickland joined Leicester City and made seven league appearances, scoring twice. He moved on to have an unsuccessful stint with Hearts then played with East Stirlingshire before leaving the senior football ranks. He later joined Stoneyburn before playing for and managing Whitburn for a number of years. Strickland took over as manager of Bathgate Thistle Bathgate Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of Bathgate, West Lothian. They play in the . Nicknamed ''Thistle'', they were formed in 1937 and presently play their home games at Creamery Park, which has room ... in April 2012 but resigned in J ...
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Association Football Clubs Established In 1937
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Scottish Junior Football Association Clubs
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Football Clubs In Scotland
This is a list of football clubs in Scotland. Clubs in membership of the Scottish Professional Football League Scottish Premiership *Aberdeen *Celtic *Dundee United * Heart of Midlothian * Hibernian * Kilmarnock *Livingston * Motherwell * Rangers * Ross County * St Johnstone * St Mirren Scottish Championship * Arbroath *Ayr United * Cove Rangers * Dundee *Greenock Morton *Hamilton Academical *Inverness Caledonian Thistle * Partick Thistle * Queen's Park *Raith Rovers Scottish League One *Alloa Athletic * Airdrieonians *Clyde *Dunfermline Athletic *Edinburgh * Falkirk *Kelty Hearts * Montrose *Peterhead * Queen of the South Scottish League Two *Albion Rovers * Annan Athletic * Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic *Dumbarton * East Fife *Elgin City *Forfar Athletic * Stenhousemuir *Stirling Albion * Stranraer Clubs in membership of the Highland League * Banks O' Dee *Brechin City *Brora Rangers * Buckie Thistle * Clachnacuddin *Deveronvale *Formartine United *Forres Mechanics *Fr ...
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Football In West Lothian
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, Kick (football), kicking a Football (ball), ball to score a Goal (sport), goal. Unqualified, Football (word), the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to English public school football games, the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultur ...
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Bathgate Thistle F
Bathgate ( sco, Bathket or , gd, Both Chèit) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, west of Livingston and adjacent to the M8 motorway. Nearby towns are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder and Whitburn. Situated south of the ancient Neolithic burial site at Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate and the surrounding area show signs of habitation since about 3500 BC and the world's oldest known reptile fossil has been found in the town. By the 12th century, Bathgate was a small settlement, with a church at Kirkton and a castle south of the present day town centre. Local mines were established in the 17th century but the town remained small in size until the coming of the industrial revolution. By the Victorian era, Bathgate grew in prominence as an industrial and mining centre, principally associated with the coal and shale oil industries. By the early 20th century, much of the mining and heavy industry around the town had ceased and the town developed manufacturing i ...
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East Junior Football League
The East Junior Football League, also known as the ''Edinburgh & District Junior League'', the ''Midlothian Junior League'' and the ''Lothians Junior League'', was a football league competition operated in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Falkirk under the Scottish Junior Football Association. It had fluctuations in membership and territory but had a continuous operation as the top league in the east of Scotland until a merger in 2002; it existed as the ''Lothians District'' for a further four years as a second-tier league before the name was discontinued in 2006. History Junior football competitions had been organised in the Edinburgh area since the 1890s, with a ''Edinburgh & District Junior League'' formed in 1892 followed by other small groups in each part of the Lothians region surrounding the city; by the 1910s, the ''Midlothian Junior League'' emerged as the strongest of these, drawing membership from the many small mining communities which regularly produced skilled players an ...
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Stewart Devine
Stewart Devine (born 11 April 1984 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender. During his career, Devine has played with Stirling Albion and with Stranraer, from where he had a spell on loan with Bo'ness United, joining the Newtown Park side permanently before moving to Linlithgow Rose. Devine started his career at the age of 16 after progressing through the Stirling Albion youth system. Devine made over 140 appearances for Albion since his debut against Stenhousemuir on 2 January 2001. Devine scored his first goal of his professional career against Albion Rovers on 11 August 2001. In the 2006–07 season, Devine helped Stirling Albion gain promotion from the Scottish Second Division with his only goal of the season in the Scottish First Division play-off final against Airdrie United on 12 May 2007 at the Excelsior Stadium. Devine was released in October 2010, after playing for Albion for a decade. He subsequently signed for Stranraer in ...
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Kevin McKee (footballer)
Kevin McKee (born 10 June 1966) is a Scottish former footballer that is 5 ft 8 in tall, and has played for Hibernian, Hamilton, Partick Thistle and Stenhousemuir in the Scottish Football League The Scottish Football League (SFL) was a league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland.One club, Berwick Rangers, is based in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is located approximately 4 km south .... References External links Kevin McKee www.ihibs.co.uk * 1966 births Living people Footballers from Edinburgh Men's association football fullbacks Scottish men's footballers Hibernian F.C. players Hamilton Academical F.C. players Partick Thistle F.C. players Stenhousemuir F.C. players Scottish Football League players Bathgate Thistle F.C. non-playing staff {{Scotland-footy-defender-1960s-stub ...
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Edinburgh Evening News
The ''Edinburgh Evening News'' is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded by John Wilson (1844–1909) and first published in 1873. It is printed daily, except on Sundays. It is owned by JPIMedia, which also owns ''The Scotsman''. Much of the content of the ''Evening News'' concerns local issues such as transport, health, the local council and crime in Edinburgh and the Lothians. The paper has a significant number of journalists covering sport, with a dedicated reporter assigned to each of the city's football teams, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. Circulation According to ABC figures for February 2014, the paper's circulation was 28,000, down from 32,160 in the preceding February. In 2016 this had dropped to 18,362, falling again to 16,660 by February 2018. In November 2018, the owners of the ''Edinburgh Evening News'' holding company The Scotsman Publications, Johnston Press, went into administration. The assets were sold to JPIMedia ...
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Keith Hogg
Keith Rodger Hogg (born 27 January 1980) is a Scottish former professional footballer who has played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Ayr United. Career Hogg began his professional career with Ayr United, and made his debut for the club aged 17 in January 1998. In the summer of 2000 he moved on to Hamilton Academical and went on to make a total of 23 appearances in senior football. After leaving Accies, Hogg dropped to Junior level with Glenafton Athletic before joining Linlithgow Rose in July 2005. With Rose, Hogg won the Scottish Junior Cup in 2007 but he missed the club's 2010 victory through injury. Hogg also represented the Scotland Junior international team while a player at both Glenafton and Linlithgow. In November 2010, Hogg joined Kilsyth Rangers in a loan move which eventually became permanent. After a short spell at Arthurlie, Hogg joined Bathgate Thistle in December 2011 and had his first experience of management on an interim basis following the ...
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