I published this blog a "few years ago" but it is impossible to ignore the "Thistle" Derby, held yesterday in Scotland (5th March 2022), which went past with barely a murmur. The use of the word Thistle in the club names is painfully obvious I hope. So here goes.....the nickname if often known as a "Jag".
In the Scottish Championship on March 4th 2022, Partick Thistle beat Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-0. They also met on February 9th 2022 and Caley and Partick drew 3-3.
In their previous division matches this season, Caley won 3-1 on September 11th 2021 and on October 30th 2021, the game was drawn 0-0.
By the way, Caley played another Thistle, Buckie Thistle in the Cinch Scottish Challenge Cup 2nd Rd winning 4-0.
Buckie Thistle Football Club is a senior football club based in the town of Buckie in Moray, which currently play in Scotland's HIghland Football League. Founded in 1889, they are also known as The Jags and play their football at Victoria Park, Buckie. All their players are Scots.
Former players include Alan Hansen, Mo Johnston, Alan Rough and Bertie Auld. Famous supporters are Robert Carlyle, David Hasselhoff and Jeremy Corbyn! Don't ask.
Their mascot, Kingsley, was designed by Turner Prize nominated David Shrigley as part of a sponsor deal with a Californian company investment firm, Kingsford Capital Management.
He'll frighten the life out of your children.PTFC also supports Thistle Weir Ladies FC since 2014, now known as PT Women's FC and an academy.
They also have 9 players out on loan to Fort William FC.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle, a club best known for The Sun news report when they beat Celtic in the Cup which read: "Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious". One of its mascots is Lionel Nessi, after the Loch Ness monster and Lionel Messi of course.
Fondly known as Caley Thistle or Caley Jags, the club formed when the Caledonian FC and Inverness Thistle merged in 1994.
Clachnacuddin FC was another "Highland" club, having been part of the three clubs to form the North of Scotland FA in 1888, that nearly joined in, but remained independent, .
Ross County is another club that may be considered "local rivals".
In 1996 ICTFC moved into the new Tulloch Caledonian Stadium, the furthest north in the country.
The present squad includes a lot of Scots, of course, and a lad from Eire, 2 x Northern Ireland, Wales and an English man David Carson, who started his playing career at Ashington (famous for the Charlton brothers, of course), Blackburn Rovers, South Shields, Whitby Town, and Morpeth Town.
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