*May: The club ensure that they will be playing First Division football again after a 3–0 aggregate victory over
Airdrie United
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in the playoff final. Preparations are made for the forthcoming season, with
Steven Masterton
Steven Allan Masterton (born 2 January 1985) is a Scottish Association football, football midfielder who last played for Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region side Hurlford United F.C., Hurlford United.
Career
Kilmarnock
Masterton ...
joining
Greenock Morton
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,
Gary Arbuckle
Gary Arbuckle (born 16 August 1984, in Glasgow) is a Scottish footballer.
Career
Arbuckle began his career with Celtic, but failed to play a first team game for them. He did win the Scottish Youth Cup in 2003. He started the final, as Celtic ...
Stuart Kettlewell
Stuart Kettlewell (born 4 June 1984) is a Scottish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Motherwell.
He played as a midfielder for Queen's Park, Clyde, Ross County and Brora Rangers.
Playing caree ...
becomes the first summer signing. Keeper
Peter Cherrie
Peter Cherrie (born 1 October 1983) is a Scottish football goalkeeper who plays for Irish side Dundalk .
Career
Cherrie started his career with Airdrie United. He played one game for them before moving to Ayr United.
Cherrie signed for Cly ...
and winger Dave McKay sign new deals, and youngsters Jordan Murch and Stephen Connolly sign their first professional contracts. Marc McCusker, who was on loan to the club last season, signs a two-year contract following his release from Hearts, whilst
Jörg Albertz
Jörg Albertz (; born 29 January 1971) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Between 1996 and 1998, he played three international games for the Germany national team.
Career
As both a youth player and apprentice ...
retires.
Jörg Albertz
Jörg Albertz (; born 29 January 1971) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Between 1996 and 1998, he played three international games for the Germany national team.
Career
As both a youth player and apprentice ...
retires.
*June: Marc McCusker, who was on loan to the club last season, signs a two-year contract following his release from Hearts. He is shortly joined for Alan Trouten from Queens Park,
Ricky Waddell
Richard Alexander Waddell (born 4 February 1981 in Falkirk) is a Scottish football player and coach who is currently head coach of Scottish Lowland Football League team Caledonian Braves. His playing career as a defender or midfielder saw h ...
from
Airdrie United
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and ex
St Johnstone
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winger Willie McLaren. Billy Gibson and Marvyn Wilson sign new contracts, whilst all out of contract YTS players are released, including Michael Doherty, the youngest player to play in a competitive match for the club. Mark Brown, of Eddlewood Amateurs, becomes the latest signing, after having scored the winning goal in the 2008 Scottish Amateur Cup Final. Christian Smith leaves the club, along with Slovakian Dušan Bestvina, whose contract has been terminated by mutual consent. Midfield dynamo Jimmy Gibson joins
East Stirlingshire
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.
*July: A 20-man squad, including a
German
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**Ger ...
King's Lynn
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, see the team leave with a 100% record. The Bully Wee return to Rutherglen, their original heartland, to open Rutherglen Glencairn's new stadium. A late Pat Clarke header earns a 1–1 draw. A near capacity crowd at Broadwood Stadium sees Clyde, with special guest players Arthur Numan and Brian Laudrup, along with former Bully Wee midfielder
Jorg Albertz Jorg may refer to:
* Jorg Gray
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Jorg Gray was established as a watch line in 1998 by Logomark, Inc. in Tustin, California. Originally, its watches were manufactured as promotional ...
, lose narrowly to
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* Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and ...
. The 1–0 defeat was the first loss of the pre-season. Just before the start of the season,
John Brown John Brown most often refers to:
*John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to:
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bolsters his squad further, with the signings of German defender
Michael Ohnesorge
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Career
Germany
Ohnesorge was born in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, and began his career with youth clubs FP 08 Duisburg and Hamborn ...
from
SV Elversberg
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History
The club was founded in 1907 as ''FC Germania Elversberg''. It was dissolved in 1914, but then re-constituted in 1918 as ''Sportverein ...
, and striker
Scott Gemmill
Scott Gemmill (born 9 June 1987) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Raised in East Kilbride,Berwick Rangers. The first competitive game of the season sees Clyde defeat Annan Athletic 2–0 in their first match as a
Scottish Football League
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side, with Alan Trouten scoring both goals on his debut. The final friendly match sees an understrength Clyde side surprisingly defeat
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* Saudi Professional League
* Scottish Premier League
* SportPesa Premier League, Kenya
* Singapore Premier League
* RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots
Computing Program ...
1958 Scottish Cup Final
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
between the two sides.Clyde 3–0 Hibernian Clyde FC Website – Retrieved 7 March 2009