Recognise anybody in this Blantyre football team? The year is 1976 and the team is Blantyre and Whitehill Accies. I’m assured it was taken near the bottom of John Street at the playing pitches. Almost all of the names are known. Top Left: Peter Smith – Coach, Mark Smith, Keith MacLean, Alastair Ally Maxwell, Bobby […]
In late September 1978, a prize night was held in the Griffen Hotel, Bothwell to celebrate the highly successful season of the Blantyre & Whitehill Accies Football Club, where the talented youngsters even ventured into Europe! Some of the lads pictured are showing off their silverware, some of it won against the cream of […]
These are the Blantyre lads, whom in July 1978, helped Scotland’s International World Cup Team, “save some face’ that summer, by picking up their own trophy! Standing at the front is the club’s under 16 Captain Tom McPake who holds aloft the TWO trophies the team brought back from their trip to Gothenburg, Sweden. Despite […]