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Forres Mechanics F.C.
Forres Mechanics Football Club are a senior Scotland, Scottish association football club from the town of Forres, Moray, currently playing in the . They play at the town's Mosset Park. Forres Mechanics are the oldest association football club in the North of Scotland and are one of only two original teams to play in the Highland League since its first season in 1893, the other being Clachnacuddin F.C., Clachnacuddin. History Their unusual name is variously stated to come from the town's Mechanics Institute or most likely when a group of craftsmen or mechanics split from an earlier Forres team to form their own club. Forres Mechanics have won the Highland league twice: in the 1985–86 in Scottish football, 1985–86 season and in the 2011–12 Highland Football League, 2011–12 season. On 26 November 2016, Forres Mechanics played their most high-profile match in recent years when they held Scottish League One, League One side Stenhousemuir F.C., Stenhousemuir to a 2–2 draw i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosset Park, Forres
Mosset Park is a association football, football ground in the town of Forres in the north-east of Scotland, which is the home ground of Highland Football League side Forres Mechanics F.C. It is located on Lea Road in the north of the town and has a capacity of 2,700, with 502 seated. History Forres Mechanics' record attendance at Mosset Park came in February 1957 when 7,000 spectatorsClubs – Forres Mechanics FC Highland Football League, Scottish Highland Football League. Retrieved 29 May 2012. watched the club take on Celtic F.C., Celtic in the 1956–57 Scottish Cup#Fifth round, fifth round of the Scottish Cup The home side lost 5–0. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covid-19 Pandemic In Scotland
The COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland is part of the COVID-19 pandemic of COVID-19, coronavirus disease-2019, caused by the virus Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Scotland on 1 March 2020. Community transmission was first reported on 11 March 2020, and the first confirmed death was on 13 March 2020. COVID-19 became a Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom, notifiable disease in Scotland on 22 February 2020. The first cases were detected in Scotland in the following weeks. By 16 March and following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, outbreak in Italy, and based on forecasting by epidemiologists at Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, Imperial College London—the Scottish Government advised the public to avoid all "non-essential" travel and contact with others, and to remote work if possible. Those with symptoms, and their household, were asked to Isolation (health care)#Self-isolation, self-isolate. Pregnant w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Establishments In Scotland
Events January * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London to promote gradualist social progress. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''Princess Ida'', a satire on feminism, premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 7 – German microbiologist Robert Koch isolates ''Vibrio cholerae'', the cholera bacillus, working in India. * January 18 – William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the ''Mary Celeste'' in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real events in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
