Stonyburn Junior 2-3 Harthill Royal
East Region Consolation League Cup
Saturday 11th May 2019
The original Stoneyburn Junior FC
formed in 1928 and reached the Scottish Junior Cup semi-finals in 1950, losing
4–2 after a second replay to eventual winners Blantyre Victoria. The club hit
on hard times later in that decade and folded in 1958. The current setup
returned to the Scottish Junior level in 1983 after playing a number of years
at Juvenile and Amateur levels.
East of Scotland League champions(West Division)
1934-35 1938-39
East of Scotland cup winners 1939,1947,1950
St Michaels Cup winners 1939,1950
Strathyre
Drive,
Stoneyburn,
EH47
8AZ
Scottish
Junior grounds visited 44
Scottish
grounds visited 105
The ground was built during the 1950s using spoil
material from the nearby Foulshiels Colliery, which gave the club its nickname
- “The Fulshie”. At the spectators entrance is the
changing rooms, clubhouse cabin, club office and the canteen. There's a covered
enclosure with large steps of terracing in front at one side of the dugouts.
The rest of the ground has grass banking, with the perimeter fence setback
behind one of the goals.
East
Region Consolation League Cup matchday 4
2.30pm
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Att.74hc
Weather:
sunny
The
Consolation Cup is a round robin tournament with three teams playing each other
home and away. Stonehaven needed to follow up the 5-0 win at Harthill in
midweek to pip West Calder and progress to the knockout round. They looked well
on their way when Kieran Sweeney knocked in a left wing cross with barely 40
seconds gone, before going two up twenty minutes later, when the ball dropped
to Adam Kennedy in the box to fire in with his right foot.
It was
all square by half time with a neat glancing header from the #11 followed by
another header, this time Graeme Weir found the net after nodding home from a
corner kick in the last action of the first half.
It was
a tale of two penalties in the second half. Kieran Sweeney had the chance to
bag his second and regain his team the lead, but his effort went well wide of
the post. With fifteen minutes remaining a spot-kick was rewarded at the other
end and this time Johnstone confidently fired in, to complete the comeback and
knock the hosts out of the cup.
Matchday Facts
SJFC 2
(Sweeney 1 Kennedy 20)
HRFC 3
(#11 25 G.Weir 45+1 Johnstone 75pen)
Entertainment
9/10
Admission
£5
Programme:£1
(great value, full of good articles and statistics)
Coffee
£1
Harthill
goalscorers to be confirmed.
0743
LNER East Coast train arriving in Edinburgh at 0920
Return
on the 1900, back in the Toon at 2040
This was my traditional last Saturday matchday of the
season for a Scottish Juniors fixture and a bevvy meeting with James Little and
Mark Wilkins. On this corresponding weekend last season we visited Harthill
Royal, who were the away team today. They
played Crossgate
Primrose on that afternoon, which
coincidentally was the destination the season before last, so I’ve stumbled
into a chain, denoting I’ll be watching Stoneyburn playing away on the 9th May
2020.
I met
Mark in Waverley station, then we toddled off for breakfast before heading to
the west end of the city to tick off the Roseburn Bar, Haymarket, Thomson
Bar(revisit for me) and Monty’s, where James picked us up at 1.30pm for the
drive to Stoneyburn.
After
the match we continued filling in the GBG gaps in Edinburgh, with a pint in the
Stockbridge Tap, The Cumberland Bar and finally the Beehive Inn before I dashed
off to catch the train home. Another great day in the Scottish capital,
although I’m running out of new pubs to visit, so hopefully there'll be some
new GBG listed pubs when I return next season.
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