Forgotten: Scotland’s Former Football League Clubs (Scottish Football History)

This book tells the story of the Scottish football clubs that once played in the Scottish Football League. This includes the Glasgow clubs: Cowlairs, Linthouse, Northern and Thistle; the Edinburgh clubs of Leith Athletic and St Bernard’s; and the other founding League club from Paisley - Abercorn. What happened to the other original founding members Cambuslang, Renton and Vale of Leven? It also includes King’s Park of Stirling whose demise was precipitated by the German Luftwaffe; the four missing clubs of West Lothian: Armadale, Bathgate, Bo’ness and Broxburn United; the name changes of Meadowbank Thistle, Dundee Hibernian and ES Clydebank; the financial intrigues at Third Lanark, Clydebank and Gretna; and the clubs of the ill-fated Third Division whose abandonment in 1926 saw 11 further clubs drop out of the League never to return. All the stories behind the bankruptcies, name changes and failed re-elections of over 40 clubs that have dropped out of the Scottish Football League.Over a dozen of these clubs have their name etched on a domestic Scottish trophy and their honours include 8 Scottish Cup wins and one overall Scottish League championship. Extensively researched, and drawing heavily on the prosaic newspaper reports of the day, it charts the rise, and ultimately fall of these former League clubs.