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Brown Brogue Blues

31 Monday Mar 2014

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Firhill United, Glasgow, Mount Florida, Regional Football Centre, Strathclyde Saturday Morning League, Tantallon Victoria, Toryglen, Toryglen Regional Football Centre

Saturday 29th March 2014 ko 9.30

Strathclyde Saturday Morning League Presidents Cup Semi-Final

TANTALLON VICTORIA 0

FIRHILL UNITED 1 (Thomson 8)

Att 18

Played on Pitch 1, Toryglen Regional Football Centre, Glasgow

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I have a feeling if you’re in Mount Florida, Glasgow during the football season and you can’t find a game to watch, then you’re not putting enough effort in! There’s Hampden Park, the National Stadium (albeit closed to football for alterations for the forthcoming Commonwealth games) home to Queens Park, the quite wonderful Cathkin Park 200 yards away up Prospecthill Road, which acts as part council pitch, part mausoleum for poor old defunct Third Lanark who controversially went bankrupt in 1967. With a horde of groundhoppers making their way to the final ever game at Benburb’s iconic Tinto Park, they had the chance to tick off another icon beforehand. Having already had the pleasure a couple of years ago I visited the other point of the Mount Florida footballing triangle- Toryglen.

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The Third Way

31 Monday Mar 2014

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Ainslie Park, Amateurs, Central, League, Lothian, Lowland, Scotland, Spartans, Steins Thistle, Tollcross Thistle

Friday 28th March 2014 ko 20.00

East of Scotland Amateur Cup Semi-Final

TOLCROSS THISTLE 1 (Perry 43)

STEINS THISTLE 2 (Lynn 46, M Kane 61)

Att 148 at Ainslie Park, Edinburgh

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North of the border the football is split 3 ways, Senior, Junior and Amateur, and there’s very little cross-over. You get some clubs in one section that could easily play in what is, in theory, the higher level, and especially the case of the Seniors, the converse also holds.

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