Crossgates Primrose F.C.

Crossgates Primrose
Full name Crossgates Primrose Football Club
Nickname(s) The Rose
Founded 1926
(folded 1960, re-formed 1983)
Ground Humbug Park
Inverkeithing Road
Crossgates
Capacity 2,000
Chairman Frazer Martin
Manager Alan Campbell
League East of Scotland League Conference B
2017–18 SJFA East South Division, 7th of 14

Crossgates Primrose Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Crossgates, near Dunfermline, Fife. The team plays in the East of Scotland Football League (Conference B), having moved from the junior leagues in 2018.[1]

They were originally formed in 1926 but folded in 1960 with the club re-forming in 1983. Due to a lack of committee members, the club withdrew from the league in November 2015[2] and spent the rest of the season in abeyance. Following the establishment of a new committee in April 2016, Primrose returned to playing competitively for the 2016–17 season. The team have been managed since May 2016 by Andy Brown.[3]

Their home ground is Humbug Park, its unusual name deriving from a disused pit of the former Cuttlehill Colliery on which site the ground is located.[4] The park was also home to greyhound racing between 1937 and 1953.[5]

Crossgates' record attendance was 7,600 for a Scottish Junior Cup sixth round tie in 1952–53 against Auchinleck Talbot.[6]

The club's best-known former players are Scotland legend Jim Baxter, who Crossgates sold to Raith Rovers for £200, and his second cousin George Kinnell.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ McLauchlin, Brian (7 June 2018). "East of Scotland League vote signals exodus of 25 junior clubs". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "End of the road for historic junior club that produced Scotland legend Jim Baxter". Central Fife Times. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Hart, Ross (30 July 2016). "Reborn Primrose are ready to go!". Central Fife Times. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Humbug Pits (Cuttlehill/Fordell) Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Fife Pits and Memorial Book, by Michael Martin
  5. ↑ "Scottish Independent 'Flapping' Tracks". Greyhound Racing History. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  6. ↑ McGlone, David; McLure, Bill (1987). The Juniors - 100 Years. A Centenary History of Scottish Junior Football. Mainstream. p. 288. ISBN 1-85158-060-3.
  7. ↑ Gallacher, Ken (2002). Slim Jim Baxter : the definitive biography. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1852279622.
  8. ↑ "Yashin, Puskas, Matthews and Kinnell?". afcheritage.org. Aberdeen FC Heritage Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.