SPOOKY ABANDONED FOOTBALL STADIUM - East Stirlingshire Football Club
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East Stirlingshire Football Club are a Lowland League side based in Falkirk, Scotland. They used to play at Firs Park which now lays abandoned.
The old, abandoned stadium is still accessible and seems kind of spooky! East Stirlingshire though are a cool old football club with some good history. Sir Alex Ferguson started his managerial career here!!
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I accidentally called Firs Park Dens Park briefly! Sorry.... won't happen again! 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
Great vid, apart from the Dens Park. lol. Saw Dundee win the league there in the early eighties, had no idea the ground was in such a state.
@@johnstrachan2726 haha I know what a shocker! Hate making these kinds of mistakes, but all we can do is learn! Hope to watch a game at Dens Park eventually!
@@FootyAdventures Get in 'The Derry' when you do!
Hey, you got my suggestion, thanks!
@@gamerdorian4689 no worries! Thanks for suggesting it! My best video ideas always come from people like yourself so cheers 👍
The Shires social club was great place on Saturday nights.Remember watching a game on Saturday back in the late 1960,s Think they were playing Forfar when the ball was kicked out of the stadium, the ref had to stop the game until someone retrieved the ball as it was the only one fit for playing with. Great pies as I remember as well.very sad they lost the stadium.
Thursdays were no bad tae brer
Great video yet again Sam, though you missed out their brief merger with Clydebank in the mid 60's when they were known as ES Clydebank.
Another great vid Sam, I can remember Falkirk winning (I think) the old 2nd division and East Stirlingshire were runners up, both got promoted.
Thanks for the video . You should know however that Alan Mackin is the sole reason why we don’t play at Firs park anymore . That one man did his best to destroy my club , and he succeeded in taking our ground from us . That’s the real story . The ground “ not being fit for purpose for the league “ is a side show . The club were hardly going to sink money into improving the ground when someone had effectively stole it from them ?!
Stuart blackwood what's the story with Mackin? I used to watch him playing for Renfrew Jnrs and drank in his pub in Paisley. He also owned a glaziers in Renfrew. Interested to hear what happened at ES
To be fair to the club their Chairman had advocated that Scottish Football would be improved by the relegation /promotion to/fromthe lower tiers a couple of years before it happened even though he understood that his club would be one of the first to be relegated
Loving your channel. Can’t wait until you are able to attend live matches again.
Thank you Matt, I can't wait to get back to the football!
The shire, used to watch them at firs park every home game , sad to see it now.
Firs Park was one of my favourite away days to go too, was a cracking atmosphere, also when I was a wee boy I went to an away to against Falkirk at there old stadium brockville, think it must of been one of the last games played at Brockville before they moved to where they are now, but it was also a great atmosphere, stadiums with terracing in them just have far more character about them I think, and can generate a better atmosphere
So sad to see, seen many a game there, mostly supporting Falkirk, loved how you could walk round the back of the stand to change ends at half time
the ES clydebank saga of 64/65 season might be an idea for a video on its own.
Beautiful little ground. 9 visits here, with 3 of them as home matches for Stirling Albion. Sad to see it like this.
You should do Shawfield Stadium in Glasgow. Former home of Clyde FC.
Another great video Sam 👍
Don’t listen to people who are questioning your travelling. It’s your job, it’s only you so you are not putting anybody at risk and we are all getting to see all the different stadiums when we can’t in real life. ♥️
Had some fun days at Firs Park. Shame to see there's nothing left. Was at a reserve game between Shire and Clyde about 2007 ish. What football is all about! Another great video from Scotland's premier football CZcams channel.
Thanks for watching again mate! Nice to hear your Firs Park memory!
Fantastic to keep the history alive 👍
Another great vid Sam, despite the odd mistake here and there. Will let you off this time due to the fact it looked bloody cold out there 😂
Amazing how well you remember all your research without the use of any cards or help whatsoever. You're very knowledgeable.
Fun fact, Andy Robertson got his professional debut against East Stirlingshire for Queens's Park in 2012
Love your abandoned both in england and scotland. Would love to see the older premier league grounds such as Filbert Street, The Dell and Baseball Ground
id like to make it known as a shire fan that we beat falkirk 1-0 in a pre season friendly and we played them of the park
Anything can happen in a pre season friendly mate... was hardly our starting 11 that played in that game #coyb
@@andrewn5677 it defo was ur full 11 but u probably have bigger issues after being pumped 6 -0 off queens park
Great channel and content. I was obsessed with stadia when I was growing up. I felt Huddersfield Town had the greatest stadium in the 1990's
Thanks very much! !
Good to hear they went out with a win. Can't change that. My dad saw them at Queen of the South & said Shire fans were singing we're black, we're white , we're absolutely shite. I love that. Don't forget the book Pointless , about a season spent watching them.
Very good channel very interesting to see all of these Scottish league grounds.
Great vid. Once things get back to normal, I intend visiting every Scottish ground I haven't been to, especially those clubs still playing at their traditional homes.
You should!
Love watching your videos. keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
went one about 15 years ago against East Fife, a fabulous ground and bumped into their notorious fan Mad Bill
Your vids are great
Thanks mate!! Glad someone thinks so!
Another great video mate
Wick Academy would be a great shout for a video, currently a Highland League team, there the most northern senior club in the UK, not including amateur clubs in Orkney and Shetland.
Then you've even got the Shetland football team, who have played games against the Faroe Islands before they entered FIFA and Uefa, Greenland Isle of Man Jersey Guernsey and even the Falkland Islands, seen photos of these games having huge crowds at them too, and they look like a very unique place to play football
Great video. Keep up the great work
Thanks, will do!
There is a book about East Stirlingshire called pointless which is a good read
Good video. You should do one on the Nest, the old Norwich City ground
Thanks, yeah will do once I can!
Thanks for coming back to falkirk my home team
When I moved from the south of Scotland to Stirling for work, I shopped around for a team to follow, and for some weird reason I clicked with East Stirlingshire. I followed the 'Shire for about five or six seasons, before switching to Queens Park for about twenty seasons.
Great videos mate
Great stuff! Would be great to visit Junior/Amateur teams. Maybe teams that have had famous players start with?
Not a bad idea mate, cheers!!
Great video Sam
Another crackin video Sam. Although u saying twice dens Park 😂😂. Keep the videos coming mate and stay safe ⚽⚽
My bad!! Did I?!?! 🙈🙈🙈
@@FootyAdventures ach don't worry about it lad made me chuckle 😂😂
@@mickmcfarlane8493 Haha I'm glad! I'm sure I'll get one or two people pointing it out too haha. Cheers anyway, more coming soon!
That Berlin Wall thing was built on what used to be a nice wee terrace. You can see the ground in all it's glory on here - East Stirlingshire v Dumbarton from 90/91 full BBC highlights.
Another good video. Keep up the good work
Thanks 👍
Top vid as usual thanks
You should visit the stadiums of Staines town and ashford town middlesex my 2 local sides
Before i moved out of Scotland , that stadium was still standing , not used but still standing , it’s crazy too see how it looks now
Had no idea. Visited ES almost 30 years ago when 'doing' the Scottish 40.Sad.
You should try where where Coventry used to play at Highfield Road... its all houses and now there's nothing to say there was once a stadium.
Theres an abandoned ground not far from Kelty hearts. It belonged to Ballingry rovers and there's still 2 stands and the toilets and dugouts are there as far as I'm aware.
Sounds amazing, researching it now!
And less than half a mile away is lochore welfare fc
I played on that pitch a very long time ago.
And it was a different sport too,Hockey.
It was the first time i ran out of a tunnel too shame its gone now.
Nice one Sam.
Keep safe.
Oh cool sounds good! And yeah a real shame that it's now just abandoned. Makes for a cool video though!!
You love the abandoned stadiums! 👏👍🏼
Filmed at another one today. Can't explore many current grounds why not hit up the abandoned 🤪
The shire so bad they make us stenhousemuir look amazing
The size of the stadium should always reflect the size of the weekly crowd. Selling out a smaller venue is better than sparsely populating a giant stadium.
FYI. At the wall end at the back the retail park used to be a very busy thriving dog track!👍
Seen the Jags playing against them here, we were starting to build the team that won the 71 Cup, Mon the jags
I was probably at the same match. It wasn't a bad wee stadium; old school.
Yooooooo fooootttyyyy adventures !!!
Played there for many years as a youth and in first team
Oh you've found one I've not been too drove past it many times so that will do me lol now in Brigg rose league
Looks extremely cold
There is an abandoned stadium in Kilwinning called abbey park it’s still got some terracing and gravel from it and the new stadium is being developed
Will definitely check that out mate!!
You not the only one who could not see the stadium as remember when our coach driver drove round in circles trying to find the ground
Great channel
Cheers Andrew!!
Usually there is something that identifies that a stadium was once there
Good video mate keep up the good work
Cheers Wayne will do 👍📽
@@FootyAdventures who do u follow mate
@@waynehigham6504 liverpool... not so great right now 😔
@@FootyAdventures iam a Liverpool fan myself mate
I played in that stadium in a cup final as a kid.
Oh cool!!
you missed the fact that the shire actually won promotion to the old scottish first division along with Morton in the early 1970s. A few of their better players such as Eddie McCreadie would soon be transferred and sadly they were relegated. l have a library of information, old programmes and interviews from the Era if your interested
I love watching this thx u for the videos
Thanks very much!!
Keep up the great videos thx u 🙌
How do u get subscribers can I ask I do t want to be a CZcams I am a footballer and I am a goalie only 15 tho and in div 1 but I tho it be fun doing random stuff
@@AWL-tu9uy just start uploading to YT and you'll start to gain subscribers 😊📽👍
Thx u very much thank u 👍🏼
great vid!
Thank you!!!
How close is the old East Stirling ground to Stirling Albion?
Hi
Maybe you could check out Camelon Juniors, now a senior team, they have a neat little ground which is in the Falkirk district, been there lots of times, saw them lift the Scottish Junior Cup back in the 90's..Come on you Mariners
#notificationsquad, dynamite content I’m very excited to watch this one
Thanks Ben, appreciate the support mate!
The pitch is in better nick than it used to be in playing days :)
Haha!
Sam, earliest East Stirling Scottish cup game i could find was a 2-1 defeat v Milngavie away on September 9 , 1882.
East Stirlingshire
@@trudywilsonmassageholistic take it up with Breedons book of Scottish football records !
Saw the Shire play Chelsea there in 1963
Never played at Dens Park, also, you never mentioned the merge with Clydebank, where they became Clydebank ES.
Hey, what’s going on with that skeleton of a big stand on the left of the tracks as you come into Edinburgh from Newcastle? Dunno if it’s half built or half demolished but I like a weekend in Edinburgh (remember them?😬)and have always been baffled by it.
I think that might have been the new Wallyford dog track that never got finished
I'm not sure if you are aware of Simon Inglis' series of books describing the football grounds of Great Britain. In the 1983 edition Inglis mentions the fact that Firs Park had no crush barriers. That might explain why you saw no relics of them.
From 5:06 onwards it looks like there's some old terracing behind you
The terracing at firs park was railway sleepers back filled with red ash, I never saw that at any other ground I suppose that’s why not much remains.
Here's a challenge for ya what about visiting some grounds in Shetland and visit the most northerly football team in Britain....Unst Fc plus its summer football in the Shetland premier league 😀 I've travelled 1500 mile round trip to watch them play
Very sad, never got to see them play. I tried to visit brockville and firs for a look around got in the former but had to settle for a few poor shots from a gap in the fence at firs. Watched a CZcams video a few years after it was abandoned when most of it was still there but arsonists had tried to set fire to the main stand..☹☹
You still can see them play ..
As a Falkirk fan I feel it's our own fault with bad upper management and then bad managers coming in so I wouldn't feel sorry for us
I feel for partick as they got relegated unjustly
Have you done a video of berwick rovers who are in England but play in Scotland
Debatable some may say on that 🚜🚜🚜
Yeah mate :) czcams.com/video/VABpRu7UAYM/video.html Thanks for watching!
Love street st mirren? Brockville falkirk? The latter is now a morrisons with an old turnstile outside
If all the people who “ used to go and see the shire “ kept supporting their team maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess ...
What a load of shite
Went there not long before it Closed Shame to see it like this.
Wish I could've seen a match there!
Get yourself to see the mighty Bonnyrigg Rose❤️❤️
Would be good to see yous in the SPFL, well supported well run club. Hope to get to a game when things get up and running
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Cheers Rivs
Check out St Rochs Glasgow
Check out Abandoned Football Stadiums on CZcams to see what Firs Park really looked like.
Stranraers first title and promotion secured here
Used to attend the odd game at Firs Park before Shire became nomads. Great little club and ground but the less said about the streets around the park the better! Dodgy af.
used to stay in fir street now called CSI falkirk due to the drug busts and crime in that area lol
The Government have no lawful powers to restrict your movements.
Cheers mate, especially when it's for work, all outside and extremely safe - Thanks for watching much appreciated
I’m glad you survived your visit.
I visited a couple of years ago and it’s not a place that felt too welcoming.
Can you do more videos on Motherwell
Yeah I'd love to get inside Motherwell once restrictions are lifted!
@@FootyAdventures Get a steak pie once your allowed in you won’t regret it🤣
take a look at crewe alex history they finished bottom numerous times , and now have a fantastic stadium nantwich town moved grounds and witton and northwich vics moving going bust theres an episode right there
How many junkies did you spot 🤣 it’s bad round there 🤣
Sadly like aot of places in Scotland now a days.
@@alanfox691 junkies everywhere mate no just Scotland.
There is an ex stadium that was a zoo that is now a bus terminal in leith
im a shire fan
Starts at 2:25.
I remember in the mid-late 00s when the whole of their team had to be placed onto the transfer list and basically the whole youth team were promoted and became the first team in the old 3rd division. I would have loved to have come up and seen a game before they abandoned the ground. I remember the average attendance actually went up when they put the call for help out.
Iv lived next to this park 👍mon the China toon 🤣