New Kilbowie Park on Friday, August 4th, 1967

Clydebank PressA crowd of about 8000 were at Kilbowie Park to see Bankies play English FA Cup finalists Chelsea in a friendly game and curtain raiser to the season.The town council were there as were some of Chelsea's supporters who had travelled up to see their team face Aberdeen earlier in the week.Chelsea did not win at Pittodrie and surprisingly they did not win at Kilbowie either. Both teams scored two goals and that was as far as they got.It had ... 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