tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-639574494493950971.post4229537795738811016..comments2022-07-20T00:49:07.638-07:00Comments on Friends Of Cathkin Park: Photo Page Third Lanark at Cathkin - Then...Friends Of Cathkin Parkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752694626195834437noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-639574494493950971.post-21469234340985990742010-10-29T14:33:30.632-07:002010-10-29T14:33:30.632-07:00Excellent photo's, i would love to see the nam...Excellent photo's, i would love to see the name of Third Lanark once again in the Scottish league.<br />I'm not even from Scotland,but they were sewn up badly.<br />I have to say the Cathkin park look's pretty amazing.<br />Hope they get going again.<br /><br />All the bestbudgiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08152888314017157674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-639574494493950971.post-9273678800200352502010-08-08T07:50:57.608-07:002010-08-08T07:50:57.608-07:00From the BBC Website 07/03/2001
Football historia...From the BBC Website 07/03/2001<br /><br />Football historian Bob Crampsey reflects on the passing of the last Scots club to go to the wall and examines the threat to today's clubs. <br />It is difficult to draw a comparison between the situation Airdrie and Clydebank find themselves in and the one which saw Third Lanark go out of business. <br /><br />The really sad thing about Third Lanark is that on the playing side they were doing tremendously well. <br /><br />They had a wonderful forward line and had finished third in the then-First Division in 1961, scoring 100 goals in the process. <br /><br />That was a case of someone deliberately trying to run a football club into the ground. <br /><br />Former director William Hiddleston bought up enough club shares to gain a controlling interest in 1962 and set about orchestrating the demise of a fine club. <br /><br />His aim was to sell the ground to a property developer and then benefit from it substantially. <br /><br />Football clubs are very hard to kill - it took a man who knew exactly what he was doing five years to kill off Third Lanark<br />When you close a club, you do not attract one single extra spectator - you simply drive away the 2,000 that were Airdrie supporters for example. <br /><br />That's what happened with Third Lanark - if the Third Lanark support are anywhere in number these days it's at Newlandsfield Park watching Pollok Juniors.Friends Of Cathkin Parkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06752694626195834437noreply@blogger.com