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SCOTTISH FOOTBALL  HISTORIAN

The quarterly magazine which celebrates the history and folklore of Scottish Football.

JOHN'S BLOG

NEW LOOK - 32 pages, full colour photographs throughout

 

The latest edition is No. 173, the second of 2025, page down for list of articles

 

Each edition comprises 32 pages and contains original research on the history of the game in Scotland, its personalities, players, teams etc. ; reproductions of long-forgotten articles on Scottish Football History ; book reviews, obituaries, exchange of information, and news and views of interest to all those with an interest in the history of Scottish Football.

 

Each edition costs £2.50 plus 90p p&p (UK only) from John Litster,

81 Marksbury Road,

Bristol, BS3 5JY  

Please add a further £4 for postage to Europe, and an additional £5 per issue for airmail postage outside Europe.

 

PDF copies can be purchased for £2.50 by arrangement, email progm@hotmail.com

 

Subscriptions may be for any number of issue, in multiples of the above amounts.   Cheques should be made payable to J. Litster.  Click for other payment methods

 

Further enquiries, please telephone 07591 434163 or email progm@hotmail.com

 

 

Back issues of every previous edition of the magazine are available  priced £2 plus postage. Please add sufficient additional postage for Europe and outside Europe

 

A comprehensive INDEX OF CONTENTS  all every issue of SCOTTISH FOOTBALL HISTORIAN, is available for £1 plus 90p UK p&p, or click here for the the contents FREE TO VIEW online.

 

Contents of the current issue, 173, 2nd of 2025, include:

 

Cochrane Park - Irvine's Premier Football Ground by Gordon McCreath


Don Kichenbrand at Forfar Athletic (Forfar Athletic, Rangers, Sunderland, Fraserburgh ,Keith) by Peter Myers


East of Scotland League in the 1960s by John Weir


Scottish International Footballers / Cricketers, and those that got close by Douglas Gorman


John Henderson's A to Z of Airdrieonians


Scottish Football Ground Design 1870-1930, a brief history by Brian Wright


The Love Game, a Scottish Cup protest in 1888 by Julia Burnside


War Fund Shield 1914/15 (Celtic, Partick Thistle, Third Lanark, Rangers, Clyde, Queens Park, St Mirren) by Frank McCrossan

 

Obituaries include

 

Anthony Basso (Hearts, Auxerre, Udinese, Viking Stavanger,Yverdon-Sport)


Alex Brash (Dundee Elmwood, Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers, Brechin City, Kirrie Thistle)


Alex Brown (Lochgelly Albert, Dundee United, Morton, Raith Rovers ,Norton House, Leven Juniors)


Jimmy Calderwood (Birmingham City, Glasgow Amateurs, Cambridge City, Willem II ,Roda JC, Heracles, Den Haag, Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen ,Zwolle, Kilmarnock, Ross County, Go Ahead Eagles, NEC Nijmegen, Cowdenbeath)


Tony Connell (Third Lanark, St Mirren, Queen of the South, Pollok, Strathclyde)


Charlie Drummond (Camelon, Lochore Welfare, Raith Rovers, Gala Fairydean, Eyemouth United)


Mick Dunlop (Clyde, St Anthonys, Arthurlie, Benburb, Dumbarton, Queen of the South, Stenhousemuir, Larkhall Thistle, Johnstone Burgh, Renfrew)


Jan Halup (Sauchie, Clackmannan, Alloa Athletic)


Alex Hodge (Blairhall Colliery, Alloa Athletic)


Alex Edwards (Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian, Arbroath)


Alan Holt (Hearts, Falkirk, Edinburgh Thistle, Alloa Athletic, Meadowbank Thistle)


Tommy Hughes (Bellshill Athletic, Arbroath, Hakoah)


Charlie Kellett (Hearts, Haddington Athletic, Stirling Albion, Penicuik Athletic, Arbroath, Newtongrange Star, Dunbar United)


Bobby Kennedy (Coltness United, Kilmarnock, Grimsby Town, Bradford City, Manchester City, Drogheda, Bradford Park Avenue, Blackburn Rovers)


Denis Law (Huddersfield Town, Scotland, Manchester City, Torino ,Manchester United)


Gordon Marshall (Dalkeith Thistle, Hearts, Newcastle United,Nottingham Forest, Hibernian, Celtic, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ferranti Thistle ,Newtongrange Star)


Tom McGill (Cumnock, Irvine Meadow, Kilwinning Rangers, Beith, Whitletts Vics, Troon, Kilbirnie Ladeside)


Billy Pirie (Banks o Dee, Arcadia Shepherds, Huntly, Arbroath,Aberdeen, Dundee, Leichhardt, Sydney Olympic)


Drew Rogerson (Kirkintilloch Rob Roy, Alloa Athletic, Alva Albion Rangers, Stirling Albion,Albion Rovers, Stenhousemuir, Ayr United, St Mirren, Raith Rovers ,Bo'ness United)


Eric Sellars (Arbroath, Carnoustie Panmure, St Johnstone,Brechin City, Arbroath SC)


Bobby Thomson (Leven Juniors, Stoke City, Montrose, Cowdenbeath, Newburgh)


Evan Williams (Third Lanark, Vale of Leven, East Fife, Wolves, Aston Villa, Celtic, Clyde, Stranraer ,Albion Rovers)


Kenny Wilson (Beith, St Johnstone, Dumbarton, Carlisle United,York City, Workington, Hamilton Accies, APIA)


Charlie Wright (Morton, Glencairn, Rangers, Workington, Grimsby Town, Charlton Athletic,Bolton Wanderers, York City)


Jimmy Wright (Leeds United, St Johnstone, Dundonald Bluebell, Lochgelly Albert, Hill of Beath Hawthorn, Junior Scotland)