Cambuslang St Bride's F.C.
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Cambuslang St Bride's Football Club was an association football club from Cambuslang, Lanarkshire.
History
The club was founded in 1889 by Glaswegian workers from Douglas, Lanarkshire,{{cite journal |title=Douglas F.C. v St Bride's F.C. |journal=Hamilton Herald |date=25 July 1890 |page=7}} after predecessor Irish diaspora club Cambuslang Hibernian had been expelled from the Scottish Football Association for financial shenanigans.{{cite journal |title=Scottish Football Association |journal=Dundee Courier |date=23 January 1889 |page=4}} It played at the same Westburn Park ground as the Hibernians and took its name from the local Roman Catholic parish which had been founded in 1878.{{cite web |title=St Bride's, Cambuslang |url=https://www.rcdom.org.uk/st-brides-cambuslang |website=Diocese of Motherwell |access-date=3 August 2023}}
The club was admitted to both the Scottish Football Association{{cite book |title=Scottish FA Minutes 1887–90 |date=20 August 1889 |publisher=Scottish Football Association |location=Glasgow |page=179}} and the Glasgow Football Association{{cite journal |title=Glasgow Football Association |journal=Lothian Courier |date=17 August 1889 |page=6}} in August 1889. The difficulties it had in the shadow of the much bigger Cambuslang F.C. were shown by the club losing its first match 8–1 at Whifflet Shamrock.{{cite journal |title=Football notes |journal=Coatbridge Express |date=4 September 1889 |page=4}} Facing an inevitable defeat at home to Airdrieonians in the first round of the 1889–90 Scottish Cup, St Bride's "scratched on the field" and played a friendly instead, which the visitors won 7–1.{{cite journal |title=Cambuslang St Bride v Airdrieonians |journal=Rutherglen Reformer |date=13 September 1889 |page=7}}
A week later the Saints scratched to Northern in the 1889–90 Glasgow Cup.{{cite journal |title=Football notes |journal=Rutherglen Reformer |date=27 September 1889 |page=7}} It was the sole entry to the competition, as it left the Glasgow FA in August 1890.{{cite journal |title=Glasgow Football Association |journal=Dundee Courier |date=13 August 1890 |page=4}} It kept its Scottish FA membership open to enter the 1890–91 Scottish Cup, and was drawn to play comparative minnows Rutherglen. However, again, St Bride's scratched,{{cite book |last1=McDowall |first1=John |title=Scottish Football Annual 1890–91 |date=1890 |publisher=Hay Nisbet|page=38}} again played out a friendly, and again suffered a six-goal drubbing, this time 6–0.{{cite journal |title=Rutherglen v St Bride's |journal=Rutherglen Reformer |date=12 September 1890 |page=7}}
The club had more success playing Junior ťsides, such as beating Millburn Athletic 5–0{{cite journal |title=St Bride's v Millburn Athletic |journal=Hamilton Herald |date=26 September 1890 |page=7}} but by November 1890 was struggling to form an XI, only seven players turning up for consecutive games against Glasgow East End (albeit with four replacements St Bride's still won 2–0){{cite journal |title=St Brides v Glasgow East-End |journal=Hamilton Herald |date=21 November 1890 |page=7}} and against the Clyde F.C. reserve side.{{cite journal |title=Barrowfield XI (Clyde) v St Bride's |journal=Hamilton Herald |date=28 November 1890 |page=7}}
The Saints somehow kept going to 1891–92, but scratched a third time in the Scottish Cup, this time to Carrington in the first qualifying round,{{cite journal |title=Scottish Cup Scratchings |journal=Aberdeen Evening Express |date=7 September 1891 |page=4}} After three successive withdrawals, the Scottish FA could not let the Saints remain as members, and the club does not seem to have played after a 2–1 win against the short-lived Linfield side of Anniesland in February 1892.{{cite journal |title=Saturday's football |journal=Glasgow Herald |date=29 February 1892 |page=12}} Cambuslang Hibernian reformed as a Junior level club at around the same time.
Colours
Ground
The club played at Westburn Park,{{cite book |last1=McDowall |first1=John |title=Scottish Football Annual 1890–91 |date=1890 |publisher=Hay Nisbet|page=97}} also known as Roslea Park.{{cite journal |title=St Bride's v Millburn Athletic |journal=Hamilton Herald |date=26 September 1890 |page=7}}
References
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Category:Defunct football clubs in Scotland
Category:Football in South Lanarkshire
Category:1889 establishments in Scotland
Category:1893 disestablishments in Scotland
Category:Irish diaspora sports clubs in Scotland