Played against them. Always had good teams.Great times in Garthamlock with Tower Hearts.
The cream sides,what about Renton,Maryhill and easterhouse. Think they call it character building, still got the scares.When I was growing up Glasgow had some fantastic youth football teams that usually did well in European tournaments. I'm talking Possil YM, Eastercraigs, Glasgow United, Harmony Row, Drumchapel Amateurs.
I have played against apex,shower of dirty bastardsUsed to have some good games against hillwood - played at parks at the pollock shopping centre
Worst team to play against for nastiness was a shower called Apex - from Fergusley paisley , them and Millbrae - from Johnstone - not nice to play against
You can imagine it - tightest ever Red blaes park where you could jump from the shy line into the 18 yard box
Shakespeare Street Youth Club from Maryhill (no shrinking violets ourselves ) playing against a team at Easterhouse (can’t remember their name) in the late 1960s.The Signal Box v Lincoln Inn - guy goes down under a heavy tackle and a sheath knife fell out of his sock.
Used to have some good games against hillwood - played at parks at the pollock shopping centre
Worst team to play against for nastiness was a shower called Apex - from Fergusley paisley , them and Millbrae - from Johnstone - not nice to play against
You can imagine it - tightest ever Red blaes park where you could jump from the shy line into the 18 yard box
My mate and I ran a boys team back in the late 80's / early 90'sAuchengill [Easterhouse] were a good setup. Always had strong teams.
Shakespeare Street youth club. God you just brought back some memories. Was on placement there in late 80's early 90's when I was a trainee youth and community worker.Shakespeare Street Youth Club from Maryhill (no shrinking violets ourselves ) playing against a team at Easterhouse (can’t remember their name) in the late 1960s.
Among the intimidating young team standing behind our goalkeeper, were several of them with air rifles making it clear who was going to win.
We lost 10-0 that evening, and I’ve never been back to Easterhouse since then
I remember playing against the 'Polis' one time and the manager's team talk was, "Right boys, this afternoon youse are gonnae find out the true meaning of 'police brutality'!"Used to watch AC Milanda and PO Phones at Nether Pollok during the spring , summer.
Also Strathclyde Police at their base in Lochinch in Pollok Park too.....dirty , dirty bastards!!!
They were absolute animalsI remember playing against the 'Polis' one time and the manager's team talk was, "Right boys, this afternoon youse are gonnae find out the true meaning of 'police brutality'!"
(And we did.)
In fairness, I doubt they ever had an 'easy' game. They were just getting their retaliation in first!They were absolute animals
Played against the Polis at Haggs castle for Pollokshields Athletic.Used to watch AC Milanda and PO Phones at Nether Pollok during the spring , summer.
Also Strathclyde Police at their base in Lochinch in Pollok Park too.....dirty , dirty bastards!!!
Hillwood Swifts are another amateur side I recall as having good teams back then. I think they were from Pollok or there about. Big McLeish played for them I think.
They were the days.The Signal Box v Lincoln Inn - guy goes down under a heavy tackle and a sheath knife fell out of his sock.
Auchengill [Easterhouse] were a good setup. Always had strong teams.
My mate and I ran a boys team back in the late 80's / early 90's
When we played there we always got changed before the game and loaded up all the bags back in the bus before we went onto the park , for a quick get away
I played for a Scottish Amateur club for 13 years, and then a further 18 months when they started an over 35's side in 1992. As I'm sure you know the volume of leagues and therefore clubs was off the scale. Off the top of my head, in the 70/80's Scottish Amateur was 7 divisions, plus 3 reserve divisions. West of Scotland 3 divisions?. Paisley and District 3? then the Caledonian was formed. Add in all the pub leagues and others, and that's an awful lot of young lads playing football. A couple of years back I went down to the pitches at Muirend to take in a game, and whilst watching was told that Muirend who were well funded and organised in my day had folded. It's a real shame, and I can't help but think that young people are missing out on the benefits health, fitness and social of playing organised sport.Yet another reason we no longer produce good footballers. The demise of youth and amateur football.
Played them in the early 80’s.I was with Leeds Utd boys club and we had some very good teams from Under 11’s right up to 18’s.Played at Huntershill then all saints parks.Great teams.
I played against them for years, and many of their players made it, including our own Bobby Williamson, who I played against.
My uncle was involved in that.Glasgow Amateurs in the 1970's were affiliated to Birmingham City and played in their strip. Jimmy Calderwood and Ricky Sbragia went to City direct and Kenny Burns (a scary boy) joined after a stint at Rangers. Alex O'Hara also signed for Rangers and later Murdo McLeod joined Dumbarton.
They were ran by a man called Sam Beck who got a mention in Alex Ferguson's autobiography.
Played against the Polis at Haggs castle for Pollokshields Athletic.
You are correct, a shower of fucking thugs.
Pumped them 3-2 and our dressing room was broken into.
Funnily enough, theirs was untouched.
Back in the 50's and 60's amateur football was absolutely massive in Glasgow and its surrounding areas. In Glasgow, as well as the two main amateur leagues (the Scottish And West of Scotland), there were First and Secondary Class Juvenile Football Leagues, BB Football Leagues, Churches Football Leagues, Saturday Morning Football Leagues, a Tuesday Afternoon League (that used to be early closing day for many retail premises in Glasgow), Boys Club Leagues and the Schools Football Leagues. On Sunday afternoons there used to be hundreds of 'bounce games' on the public pitches in the city. There were loads of great teams and many great players. I've personally got a load of memories as I used to run a Saturday morning team. Back then not too much attention was paid to the Saturday morning amateurs. It's ironic that in the Glasgow area it is the one League that has actually grown in strength down through the years.
Played them in the early 80’s.I was with Leeds Utd boys club and we had some very good teams from Under 11’s right up to 18’s.Played at Huntershill then all saints parks.
The city had over a million people in the 50s - even with the expanded boundaries we're barely touching 600,000 now.
Sounds like the drummy and the Toi knocking lumps out of each other.One night we played them at Lochend School & there was a gang fight on the next park.
Funny as %^*&.
This guys chasing another with a big machete thing & as they realised they were going to run onto our park they changed angle so they wouldnae disrupt the game !
We were all buckled up laughing.
They had their values, those boys.