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Shettleston
Shettleston ( sco, Shuttlestoun, gd, Baile Nighean Sheadna) is a district in the east end of Glasgow in Scotland.
Toponymy
The origin of the name 'Shettleston' is not clear and, like many place-names of possibly medieval origin, has had a multi ...
in
Glasgow
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.
History
The club was founded in 1879, and played in the first
Lanarkshire Cup
The Lanarkshire Cup was an annual competition open to football teams in the Lanarkshire area. The competition is now defunct.
List of winners
1879–80 - Stonelaw
1880–81 - Thistle
1881–82 - Hamilton Academical
1882–83 - West Benhar
1883â ...
in 1879–80, surviving a protest from
Bellshill
Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton to the south ...
in the first round against a 1–0 win, but losing 6–0 in the second round to Clarkston.
Shettleston entered the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1883–84, losing to Royal Albert in the first round. The club entered every season until 1889–90, but only ever won one tie; against the original Airdrie at Coatbridge in 1884–85. In the second round the club originally lost 9–1 at
West Benhar
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, but the
Scottish Football Association
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ordered a replay after Shettleston protested against Benhar's "rough play". This was to no avail for Shettleston as it lost again, albeit only 4–1, at neutral ground in Airdrie in front of over a thousand spectators; the Shettleston fans "hooted and hissed tremendously" at the Benhar side.
The club reached the second round again in 1887–88, in unusual circumstances. The club scratched to Carfin Shamrock in the first round, but Shettleston protested that it had been placed in the Lanarkshire section of the draw, when it should have been in the Glasgow section, given that its ground was within the Glasgow municipal boundaries. The SFA conceded a mistake had been made and re-instated Shettleston into the second round, and, in the second round, Shettleston was drawn against Glasgow opposition in
Northern
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of
Springburn
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Springburn developed from a rural hamlet at the beginning of the 19th century. Its indu ...
. Let down by insufficient teamwork, Shettleston lost 6–3. Shamrock had beaten Shettleston in the first round in 1886–87 and Shettleston had protested about Shamrock's rough play, although the appeal was dismissed.
The club's biggest competitive win was in the first
Glasgow Cup
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in 1887–88, winning 10–0 away at United Abstainers, scoring the first after four minutes and 4 by the time a quarter of an hour had passed. The club however lost 11–0 at
Cambuslang
Cambuslang ( sco, Cammuslang, from gd, Camas Lang) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a ...
in the second round, with goalkeeper Wilson receiving special praise for his efforts. Shettleston had a similar set of results in the tournament in 1888–89; beating Rutherglen 9–2 but losing 11–2 at
Celtic
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, in the Bhoys' first-ever Glasgow Cup tie.
Shettleston's biggest achievements came in the North-Eastern Cup, a low-level Glaswegian tournament, albeit often consisting of no more than eight clubs. Shettleston twice reached the semi-final, in 1883–84 and 1888–89, both times after winning one tie.
The club's final recorded match is a 7–1 first round defeat at home to the Battlefield club of south Glasgow in the
1889–90 Scottish Cup
The 1889–90 Scottish Cup was the 17th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. Queen's Park defeated rivals Vale of Leven
2–1 in a replayed final.
Calendar
Teams
All 158 teams entered the competition in the ...
. The two sides were drawn together again in the Glasgow Cup; Shettleston scratched before the inevitable defeat, unable to raise a team, and did not play competitive football again.
In 1890, after the club disbanded, a new senior club, Shettleston Swifts, started up, but it did not have any links to the Shettleston club.
Colours
The club originally played in navy. In 1884 it changed to black and white, originally in ½-inch hoops and in 1886 to 1-inch "perpendicular" stripes. In 1887 the club switched to red and white stripes.
Ground
The club's home ground was originally at Greenhouse Park. In 1887 the club moved to Carntyne Park.