I finished The Ghosts Of Cathkin Park the day after Aberdeen City Council’s magnificent Library Service sourced it for me. Despite a couple of glaring errors (neither goal difference nor yellow/red cards were in use before Third Lanark went paps up), the boy’s done a good job. He puts capitalist criminality (there’s a tautology for you) under the microscope and shows how it killed one if Scotland’s five oldest clubs. In plain sight.
At my first cup final on April 29, 1967, my uncle parked the Ford Anglia at Cathkin Park. It looked like a fine ground of the time. When 126,101 others and I left Hampden at full-time, the Evening Times was on sale, its headline confirming Thirds’ financial collapse. The site is still kept as green space despite various attempts to concrete over it. Last time I was there was when it was used as a bus park when Scotland (pre-Fanny Army days) played Wales in a 1976 World Cup qualifier. I’ll be in the area at the end of the week, and may take the local Border Terriers round to the site, armed with poop bags, naturally, which I may launch at the SFA offices at Hampden by taking a short detour.
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