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词条 Thorniewood United F.C.
释义

  1. History

  2. Honours

     Central League Division 2  Other Honours 

  3. Former players

  4. References

  5. External links

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Thorniewood United Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in Viewpark, North Lanarkshire. Formed in 1924, they compete in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association. Their home ground is Robertson Park and the team colours are all red.

History

Nicknamed the Wood, they were formed in 1924 and play at Robertson Park, having moved from Thorn Park in nearby Tannochside in 1957 when the Caterpillar Tractor Company acquired the land to build a new factory at the time.

Negotiations to secure Robertson Park were made by the club's founder William Cowan with Caterpillar, who secured the site as a direct replacement for the original ground. A senior vice president of Caterpillar travelled from the USA to meet with William Cowan to identify what was holding up the acquisition of the land.

In an agreement that resulted from the request to "move our park from here to there", Thorniewood moved to the current location and over the years have sold off parts of the land around the park. Robertson Park itself is named in recognition of the club's lawyer John Robertson, who provided much needed advice to William Cowan and his co-formers when the club was in its infancy.

While William Cowan will always be remembered as "Mr Thorniewood",{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} many older supporters will recall that all of the Cowan family took roles in ensuring the club continued from washing the strips to collecting the gate money.

They currently compete in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association; they wear all red strips (uniforms) with a change strip of all blue, although their original colours were white shirts, black shorts and white socks. Thorniewood used to be called Tannochside Recreation for a short period in the sixties but soon reverted to their original name. Tunnocks, the large biscuit manufacturer, are Thorniewood United's main sponsor and have been for many years. Fans of the club are known as Woodites or Woodies and The shed boys.

The club had its most successful era from the 1940s to the early 1960s, with its most recent honour achieved in 1981 under the management of Stuart Noble.

In June 2015 Thorniewood won their first cup in 50 years when they defeated Blantyre Vics in a penalty shoot out to lift the Euroscot Engineering Central League Cup. The game had finished 2–2 with Thorniewood playing with nine men for 30 minutes after two straight red cards.[1] The team have been managed since February 2017 by Gerry Bonham.[2]

Honours

Central League Division 2

  • Winners: 1992–93

Other Honours

  • Lanarkshire League winners: 1950–51, 1955–56, 1959–60, 1963–64
  • Central League C Division winners: 1980–81
  • Lanarkshire Junior Cup: 1963–64, 1964–65
  • Euroscot Engineering Central League Cup: 2014–15

Former players

1. Players that have played/managed in the top two divisions of the Scottish Football League or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).

2. Players with full international caps.

3. Players that hold a club record or have captained the club.

  • {{flagicon|SCO}} Jon Connolly
  • {{flagicon|SCO}} David Dunn
  • {{flagicon|SCO}} Joe Murray
  • {{flagicon|SCO}} Kenny Wright

( footballer and Captain) Vincent Fascione 1971-73.

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/13341902.Eight_man_Thorniewood_lift_EuroScot_Eng_Central_League_Cup_in_dramatic_penalty_shoot_out/ |title=Eight-man Thorniewood lift EuroScot Eng Central League Cup in dramatic penalty shoot-out|newspaper=Evening Times |first=Jim |last=O'Donnell |date=18 June 2015|accessdate=2 February 2016}}
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Goldthorp|first1=Craig|title=Gerry Bonham is new Thorniewood United gaffer|url=http://www.motherwelltimes.co.uk/sport/football/gerry-bonham-is-new-thorniewood-united-gaffer-1-4366548|accessdate=18 February 2017|work=www.motherwelltimes.co.uk|date=14 February 2017|language=en}}

External links

  • Thorniewood United Website
  • [https://www.facebook.com/Thorniewood-United-1459406101044876/ Facebook]
  • [https://twitter.com/Thorniewood/ Twitter]
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5 : Football clubs in Scotland|Scottish Junior Football Association clubs|Association football clubs established in 1924|Sport in North Lanarkshire|1924 establishments in Scotland

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