New Kilbowie Park on Saturday, August 13th, 1966

Clydebank’s return to senior football began in impressive fashion on Saturday as they swept aside a disjointed East Stirlingshire side in this League Cup group tie at Kilbowie Park. Despite dreich weather, over 2,000 supporters turned out—among them several local dignitaries—to witness the Bankies’ first senior competitive match since the end of their previous arrangement with East Stirling two seasons ago.A 4-2-4 formation was deployed by the home side, and although there were signs of ... read more

Holm Park on Saturday, August 20th, 2022

This friendly match against Rossvale Academy turned out to be a huge mis-match and ended up to be no more than a glorified training session. It was costly as well with Oisin McHugh pulling up with an injured hamstring just nine minutes into the game, but more damaging was the straight red card given to Matt Niven, for “head butting” a Rossvale player in retaliation to a poor tackle.Make no mistake, he deserved to be sent off, but as with Nicky Little against Nairn Co, we are likely to se ... read more