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John MacIntosh
Falkirk player from way back then, seems to have been done a slight injustice by the Falkirk Herald, I have gone through the usual places, and it seems that the MacIntosh Family were only ever McIntosh...
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Falkirk FC Graves - Patrick McKay
I cannot take credit for finding this grave other than coming across it when searching his name on the internet, in fact I do not believe I have ever been to Kilsyth Cemetery so someone else found it...
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The Curious Case of Johnny Dora
I wrote a blog post about John Dora a long time back, he was a Centre-Forward Falkirk signed from Arbroath who scored 2 goals in 3 games before breaking his leg and disappearing from the game.The very...
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Lost football Grounds of Falkirk - Randyford
Nobody knew where Randyford was, for a long time I believed Randyford was the same as Woodburn Park which was a Junior ground in the Modern Day Boag used by several minor teams in the 1890s.But I have...
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Charles Edward Napier
Last summer, when I was out and about in Grandsable Cemetery I found the stone of a man that was far more famed in Scotland when playing in the Green & White Hoops than in Falkirk's Navy Blue...
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William Ritchie or Finnigan
Sadly footballers are human beings too, therefore suffer from the same foibles we do. This occasionally meanders into the territory of what we call a person, and that that can differ from what the...
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Kick meaning Kink
There is thing in Cartographic Archeology called a "kick", the word is etymologically from the same source as kink, it is wherein a normally straight road deviates because of a feature, be it natural...
View ArticleDid Falkirk FC invent the diamond formation?
Falkirk FC were undergoing one of their regular poor seasons in 1892/93 - Their demon Goalkeeper John Patrick had been poached by St Mirren, John Drummond had been theived by Rangers, John Gillespie...
View ArticleSunday Football in Stenhousemuir 1890
Falkirk Herald - 1st March 1890Stenhousemuir Local NewsSUNDAY FOOTBALL"The craze for this not particularly elevating pastime appears to be developing beyond the bounds of common decency. This was...
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Lost Football Grounds of Falkirk District - Lochside Pk, Limerigg
Football came in fits and starts in Slamannan & Limerigg, arguably the first team to make a real fist of the game was Barnsmuir (from Limerigg) from about 1885 to about 1887.Now, it has to be said...
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