Published: Tuesday, 19th June, 2007 09:50
BOGHEAD DEFEAT WAS THIRDS LAST GAME
By GARE CLYDE
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INCREDIBLY, it is 40 years since the sad demise from Scottish football of the famous Third Lanark, based at Cathkin Park, just down the Cathkin Brae from Hampden Stadium.
The club was named after an equally famous Lanarkshire army regiment, the Royal Lanark Fusiliers.
Then, one quiet evening on Friday April 28, in the final match of the season at Boghead Park, we did not know it then, but the Thirds had reached the twilight of their ageing existence in Scottish football.
On that now historic evening, Vale man Drew Busby, who had played for Airdrieonians and had a spell in the Northern Ireland League, was the Cathkin club’s striker.
Dumbarton won 5-1, but poignantly it was Drew who scored the Third’s consolation goal.
That goal is in the Hall of Fame now for it was the final goal to be scored by Third Lanark in Scottish football.
In close season the Scottish Football League pulled the plug on Thirds, with alleged financial irregularities in the running of the club being the basis of their shock decision.
Drew, who went on to play for Hearts and Airdrie again and is now a local publican, said at the time: “It was hard to take in. My club had died.
“One day we were professional footballers under contract, the next we were not. But happily things worked out for me in the long run.”
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