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

Entry FREE

No Programme

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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