Shettleston 0-1 Dundee North End
Scottish Junior Cup 2nd Round
Saturday 29th September 2019
Shettleston was originally a small village on the outer edge of
Glasgow, but is now a city district incorporates the sub-districts of
Greenfield and Sandyhill. It lies in between the neighbouring regions of
Parkhead and Baillieston, four miles east of Glasgow city centre.
Famous people from Shettleston
include journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster Cliff Hanley, who
wrote the lyrics to the Scottish anthem Scotland The Brave.
Football commentator and author Archie Macpherson was born and raised in the
area, with his father playing centre forward for Shettleston, as well wearing
the number nine shirt at Dalry Thistle and Largs Thistle.
Shettleston Football and Athletic Club was founded in 1903,
beginning life in the Glasgow Junior League and are currently plying their trade in
the SJFA West Region League One. The Town reached the final of the
Scottish Junior Cup in 1959, losing 2–1 to Irvine Meadow in front of a 65,211
Hampden Park crowd and reached the semi final stage in 2000-01.
Glasgow League winners: 1923–24,
1926–27
Central League A Division
winners: 1976–77
Central Division One winners:
1985–86, 1998–99, 2001–02
Shettleston have enjoyed plenty of
cup success, winning the Glasgow Junior Cup four times, the Central League Cup
on three occasions and the West of Scotland Cup in 1973, ‘93 and ‘95.
The club’s best-known former
player is Tommy Docherty, who went on to play for Celtic, Preston North End,
Arsenal and won international caps, before commencing on a career in
management, boasting he had "more clubs than Jack Nicklaus"
401 Old Shettleston Road,
Glasgow,
G32 7JN
Scottish grounds visited 100
SJFA grounds visited 41
The club moved to Greenfield Park
from their original home at Well Park in 1933, which had been sold off for housing.
The turnstile entrance is behind the goal, where there's a fully covered
enclosure with wooden benches bolted onto the terraces, with a wee separate section of
eleven flip seats. The main side has the changing rooms, tea bar and terracing,
including the old peaked roof enclosure at the bottom. Its open behind the far
goal which runs around to the other side, which is now out of bounds apart from
a scaffold camera stanchion. The large impressive social club is outside,
opposite the turnstile entrance.
Macron Scottish Junior Cup 2nd
Round
2.30pm ko
The Toon were punished for an
early penalty miss, as the visitors booked there place in round three with a
late goal. The match was a bit of a scrappy affair, with an array of clumsy
fouls and quite a few yellow cards banished. North End were the much better side
in the second half and grabbed the winner ten minutes from time, when the ball
broke to Ryan Smith in the box, who turned and fired his team into the next
round.
Matchday stats & Spondoolicks
SJFC 0
DNEFC 1(Smith 81)
Att.100.est
Entertainment 5/10
Admission £6
Coffee £1
Another road trip in the pleasant
company of Katie & Lee along with Facebook addict John McClure. The gang
picked me up at 10am with Katie taking the A69/M74 route to the outskirts of
Glasgow. On route we stopped off for the requisite JDW, calling at The John Fairweather in
Cambuslang (a revisit for me but a tick for my fellow travellers). Apart from the
busy traffic just outside Shettleston, the journey went smoothly both ways, so I
was back home at half seven. After being a big part of my life for two years, it
was good to watch a Scottish Junior Cup tie again at a ground full of
character - a good'un for my 100th in Scotland.
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