Cambuslang St Bride's Football Club was an

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club from

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History

The club was founded in 1889 by Glaswegian workers from

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, after predecessor Irish diaspora club

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had been expelled from the

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for financial shenanigans. It played at the same Westburn Park ground as the Hibernians and took its name from the local

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parish which had been founded in 1878. The club was admitted to both the Scottish Football Association and the

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in August 1889. The difficulties it had in the shadow of the much bigger

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were shown by the club losing its first match 8–1 at Whifflet Shamrock. Facing an inevitable defeat at home to

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in the first round of the

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, St Bride's "scratched on the field" and played a friendly instead, which the visitors won 7–1. A week later the Saints scratched to

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in the 1889–90

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. It was the sole entry to the competition, as it left the Glasgow FA in August 1890. It kept its Scottish FA membership open to enter the

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, and was drawn to play comparative minnows

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. However, again, St Bride's scratched, again played out a friendly, and again suffered a six-goal drubbing, this time 6–0. The club had more success playing Junior ťsides, such as beating Millburn Athletic 5–0 but by November 1890 was struggling to form an XI, only seven players turning up for consecutive games against Glasgow East End (albeit with four replacements St Bride's still won 2–0) and against the

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reserve side. The Saints somehow kept going to 1891–92, but scratched a third time in the Scottish Cup, this time to

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in the first qualifying round, After three successive withdrawals, the Scottish FA could not let the Saints remain as members, and the club does not seem to have played after a 2–1 win against the short-lived Linfield side of

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in February 1892. Cambuslang Hibernian reformed as a Junior level club at around the same time.

Colours

The club played in green.

Ground

The club played at Westburn Park, also known as Roslea Park.

References

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