BBC ALBA AND THE "THIRD" PROGRAMME

Here are the 1904 Glasgow Cup Winners.
If you happen to get onto those odd channels on TV that you really have no reason to watch you might come across BBC Alba (first shown in 27th Jan 2017). With commentary in Gaelic and English subtitles, I watched the history of Third Lanark FC, the now defunct Scottish League club; the film 50 years on from the club's demise.
Here's a clip
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In its prime the club was known as the Thirds, Redcoats, Warriors and sometimes "The Hi Hi" after the crowd chant made when there was a high volley in "av'it" fashion during a game.

Third Lanark Athletic Club was founded in 1872, inspired by the first Scotland v England international match, as the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers and they joined the Scottish Football League in 1890. The "Thirds" were successful in the early 20th C with League wins 1903-4, Cup 1889 and 1905 and the Glasgow Cup in 1903/04/09/63.

So stable was the club that it toured and ventured into Buenos Aires (played against an Argentina National XI on June 24th 1923) and Montevideo. The photo shows the two teams in Zona Norta before the friendly.

I think a number of "us" will remember Third Lanark being read out during the football results on a Saturday afternoon!
The club went out of business on June 26th 1967, after a number of financial issues created partly by poor crowds...in 1960-1 555,489 people watched the Thirds during the season (after their last match they scored enough goals against Hibernians to reach 100 goals for the season) and they qualified to play in the European competition-The Anglo-Franco-Scottish Friendship Cup. In 1963 TL won the Glasgow Senior Cup beating Celtic 2-1 at Hampden Park, this was their final major trophy and after that there was a gradual decline to the Second Division in 1965-6 and on 28th April 1967 the attendance was 581 v Dumbarton in a 1-5 defeat.

A few years later, in 1966-7, only a tenth of that crowd number turned out as the club lost its popularity and there was also financial mismanagement! It folded.
The club reformed in 1996 joining the Greater Glasgow Amateur League.

Notable managers include George Young a famous Scottish international captain (54 caps), Bobby Evans who played for Celtic and Scotland (48 caps) and Bob Shankly-yes, brother of Bill born like his famous brother in the small Scottish village of Glenbuck and who barely played in higher level football. (did you know he once played for Tunbridge wells FC?)