Late Tackle

The Second Coming of Third THIRD LANARK

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
17 April 2013

MARK GODFREY recalls a long-forgotten football club – and looks at plans for it to rise again

Third Lanark vs Hearts in 1960

vs Dunfermline 1964

1889 C up Winners

Heard the story about the Glasgow-based football club who ran into financial calamity and went bust? Of course you have, but this tale of woe isn’t about the collapse of Rangers, but a club whose name is woven into the fabric of Scottish football’s early days – Third Lanark.

The club were based in the city’s south side, founded in 1872 by the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers after the sol...

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