Exploring Britain's Most Recently ABANDONED Stadium
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2023
- Clyde Football Club have been nomadic for a number of years. Originally from Glasgow, they played for 88 years at Shawfield Stadium.
Shawfield is now sadly abandoned.
Since moving out in the mid 1980s, they shared with Hamilton Accies & Partick Thistle before moving into Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld. Now they've left Cumbernauld and they're back in Hamilton!
What next for this historic, old club?!
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What should they do with this site???
Make a zoo
Move clyde back in!
There’s plenty of other clubs in lower leagues that could use places like this. Kinda like San Siro but for non-league teams. It’s a shame to let waste ground just sit there without purpose. Especially when there’s so much history at these locations.
@@mgradiant The site definitely has potential. A non-league San Siro sounds like a good idea.
@@geoffpoole483 could even call it the Shaw Siro
Thanks for having me on Sam. Was great to have a blether and explore Clyde's old home
Hi Ross, do you know who owns Shawfield these days ? It would be great if someone could buy the ground and either restore it or rebuild it. A football club should be based in its local area for the local population. All the best to you and "The Bully Wee", from a Womble.
@Paul Dear hello Paul. I take it the holdings company from the greyhounds will still own it but I'm not sure. Clyde did look into Shawfield but for various reasons it wasn't possible
If it was possible for Clyde to move back to Shawfield, do you think the majority of the fans would want that or are they happy to stay where they are for now just so long as the club survives ?
@@pauldear6660 Clyde would love to be back at Shawfield. Realistically getting back to Glasgow should help. I said to Sam off camera that Clyde should probably have moved to East Kilbride in the 1970s when the tenements in Bridgeton and Oatlands were demolished. Hindsight is always 20/20 and that opportunity has long gone
Thanks for your replies Ross. If I had the money i'd buy Shawfield for the Clyde fans. Unfortunately, I am just a normal working class man. Stories like this make me feel sad. I hope that someone comes along and can do something to help the club. Best of luck to you and everyone involved with the club.
One former player who appeared at Shawfield who is definitely worth mentioning is ... Pat Nevin 👍 He started his football career at Clyde, was there 1981-83. Then was signed, aged 19, by Chelsea Football Club. Signed by John Neal, one of our greatest ever managers ... Nevin went on to play for Everton. And Scotland.
Abandoned stadiums make me sad. They make me nostalgic as well.
Shawfield Stadium is where Scotland's greatest ever boxer, Benny Lynch, defeated Peter Kane for the World Flyweight title, in what was one of the greatest fights ever. It's a legendary venue and should be saved.
Benny was defending his World and British title in this fight he became World flyweight champion beating Jackie Brown in Manchester.
24th May 1974, pop icon David Cassidy played a gig @ Shawfield Stadium in front of 11,000 screaming fans, One of them was my future wife, who travelled up from London to see him perform. She was unable to attend his concert @ White City stadium. London two days later, that's why she went to Shawfield.
I was at a Glasgow Cup game in this stadium as a teenager on 14/05/1977 where Celtic beat Clyde 4-2. It was the last competitive game Kenny Dalglish played for Celtic, and the Clyde Manager was none other than Billy McNeil, Celtic's greatest ever Captain!
Check out two grounds in Accrington, Lancashire. Accrington FC played in the original English Football League from 1888 - 1892 in the top tier of English football and played at the home of the current Accrington Cricket Club. The newly formed Accrington Stanley 1891 - 1966 played at Peel Park (around the corner from Stanley Street where the club was founded at a working mans clubs on that street), around a quarter to half a mile from the original ground in the second/third tier. The latter still has small banks that show the history of the original ground. My son played his home games at Peel Park and though I am not from Accrington (lived their for a few years) it felt pretty special watching him play on a pitch that held so much history.
In the 1950s and sixties when Celtic where playing away their fans would go and watch Clyde and when Rangers where playing away their fans would go and watch Partick Thistle , these clubs where attracting crowds of 15,000 .
Changed days. On the 12th Feb, the Celtic fans will be watching Rangers v Partick Thistle 😂
@@mrade5321 Why is the history channel running some old games on Scotsport?
@@brownwarrior6867 Not that I know of, why?
That honestly would not be the case today the world has changed drastically from the 60's & 70's.
My father as a Morton fan would head to cup semis/ finals not including his team. The issue we have now are fans are so tribal.
Being a Coventry City fan, I can sympathise with the situation here. This is similar to what we faced but on steroids.
I went to watch a few Clyde games during the 70s, was a good experience. A different side to Glasgow.
Shawfield is gonna be knocked down , it's really heartbreaking as a young Clyde fan , it should be listed
Dad took me & my wee brother to Shawfield for our 1st game v Airdrie. We,d to stand outside a pub in Bridgeton for 40 mins while he had a coupla pints. Good ol days.
It is a shame that this remains abandoned. Surely the site can be developed to keep the historic site for Clyde FC in Glasgow where it should remain.
Whatever happens to the site its history should be acknowledged. Sam made a video on Arsenal's old ground at Highbury where some impressive work has been done. He also made a video on West Ham's former ground at Upton Park and the only acknowledgement that a housing development is on the site of West Ham's former stadium is some graffiti.
My dad was a Clyde fan (& Celtic too) and would have gone to this stadium in the 50s. Thanks for posting.
Brilliant again Footy! I was born 50m away,across the Rutherglen Bridge and remember the night in 1974 when American pop star David Cassidy,held a concert in Shawfield! The new stadium planned is at Crownpoint, right next door to St Mary's church,Forbes St,the birthplace of Celtic fc!
Hi Sam,
Great channel which I watch regularly. I was very surprised to watch this one about Clyde and Shawfield. I have some excellent photos from 1949 to 1952 when my dad was playing for Clyde. I have photos of my dad playing against Rangers, Celtic and all the clubs in the top flight. My favourite photo is of my dad defending his goal against Celtic in the Glasgow Cup final at Hampden. Clyde won 2-1, the attendance was 109,000. So for my dads involvement I always have a soft spot for Clyde and follow their results. It’s very emotional seeing inside the old stadium where my dad played. Keep going Sam, your vlogs are always interesting.
Ian Lindsay.
In season 1966-67 when Celtic and Rangers were two the best teams in Europe (Celtic won the European Cup and Rangers reached the final of the Cup-Winners Cup) they finished first and second in Scottish League Division 1 respectively; Clyde were third. Clyde were denied the chance to play in Europe in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup because Rangers were already in that competition and only one team from an individual city was allowed. The remaining Scottish place was given to Hibs instead.
Rangers lost to Bayern how were they the best.
@@roscoaber Apologies for the typo, should have read: “two of the best teams”
I used to go to the Shawfield dogs for a night out, but even 20 years ago, the stadium was falling apart..... which was a shame as the art deco architecture was striking and wouldve been worth preserving. So much sporting history will be lost when Shawfield is knocked down for housing :( As a side, I recently rehomed a retired greyhound, and would recommend the breed as a pet to anyone - The Greyhound Trust do an awesome job helping to rehome retired racers.
You are doing a great job, I am glad that clubs are recognising your efforts and welcoming you to all grounds across the clubs at all levels of the game.
Much of Blaigowrie JFC ground is now sadly abandoned, although they do still play at Davie Park. Worth checking out, the team lost 13-2 to Rangers in the 1930's, a record victory by the Ibrox side that still stands today.
The Bully wee always seem to bring passionate fans to Annan.
Interesting club. Fingers crossed
Great away day 😍. Likely we'll be back next year the way things are going
In 1974, as a 14 year old lad from Sydney Australia, my father (a Glaswegian who immigrated on his own to Australia as a 17 year old in 1950) took me to see his old football 'haunts', one being Shawfield Stadium. It was sad to see it now, however, enjoyed your video nonetheless.
Could Clyde FC go back to Shawfield if a sympathetic buyer came in? Unlikely but it would nice to see 'The Bully Wee' back home in Glasgow.
It would be nice
but I honestly dont think that would do Clyde any favours at all.
for me Clyde have been nomadic for to long & away from Glasgow for to long.
In my view Clyde should of moved to.East Kilbride back in the mid 70's I think Clyde would have a larger fanbase if they had today.
@The Bay City Roller it was a failure of a move anyway, clyde would struggle to get a couple of hundred fans which is unsustainable as a fan base
No, the owners of the stadium have applied for it to be demolished to build flats on the site
It was that first video you uploaded of Cathkin park that made me aware of you’re channel a couple of years ago now and have watched every one since Sam..Hats off to you’re hard work providing us all with great content..Easy for all to say too but please keep up the incredibly hard work which I know is so time consuming but the rewards you will have coming you’re way in the near future will be fully deserved and deservedly so..
Top man 👏
I grew up less than a mile from Shawfield, and growing up as a Gorbals boy, I spent alot of time there, so it's really sad to see part of my childhood, basically destroyed.
Being a Rangers fan, I used to go to Ibrox with my dad for most home games, but if my dad was working away, or Rangers where playing away, my uncle Jim who was a big Clyde fan, would take me to Shawfield.
I think it's just as well, my uncle Jim is now dead, because seeing his beloved Shawfield, in that state, would have killed him.
Then every Saturday night, if my dad was home, was a family night out, when we would all go along to Shawfield, "fur the dugs".
Sad to see the state the old ground has fallen into, but it still gives me many, many, many happy memories.
I watched Hamilton Accies clinch the 85/86 First Division title at Shawfield, bizarrely with a 4-2 defeat. I think it was Clyde's penultimate home game. Last was v Alloa. I went to Shawfield three maybe four times and only saw one win. A very tight park and a difficult ground to get points but I always enjoyed the big wide terracing and the wee guy going around without fail selling macaroon bars!
“Get your macaroon bars here”
I love these hardcore fans of these old struggling clubs. They all try so hard to support and help their clubs survive. Very few English clubs have a fanbase that dedicated.
🙄🙄🙄As a York City fan what a ridiculous comment. English non league is full of clubs with dedicated fan bases who stick with the club through thick and thin.
@@Sportspenguin77 yeh but loads of money even in that league.
@@roscoaber There is quite a bit of money in the national league but for every Wrexham there is a Maidstone who went bust in early 90s and fought their way back . Even in League below there are some professional teams but the English pyramid is the best because there is a pathway to the top. That's why the Scots have tried emulate it.
I went to Hampden park on Saturday and popped down to Cathkin Park because of you Sam.
As a young boy in the late 60s and early 70s my father took me to stadiums all over Scotland to watch Celtic but he would never take me to Shawfield as people had been killed there when a wall collapsed.
What a weird coincidence.. I was on wiki yesterday avoiding school work and went down the rabbit hole of Scottish football and read about exactly this stadium/Clyde. Spooky.
Either way great video as usual!
Fascinating video - Never went to a football match at Shawfield, but it was the first greyhound track I ever attended on a visit to Glasgow in the mid 1970s.
clyde at one point was a great team and always a glasgow club, no doubt about that.shame how they ended up and where they are today, would love to see them back up the league and play the bhoys in cups league etc, a good team to watch then and a hard team to beat in the 60s
The sight of those dilapidated buildings are therapy for me by making my house look less grim . Blokes like Ross are the real deal although I needed my mate Mc Coll to translate 🙄👍
Saw Clyde play at my club fulham in a friendly back in 1968 ,4-0 nil to fulham Johnny Haynes scored I remember , don’t know why Clyde would play a friendly at Fulham as a bit of a miss match back then , great channel .
Another great video, thanks. Ross's pictures reminded me of the great atmosphere at some matches their against Thistle in the 60s and 70s.
Fascinating clip. Two things I used to do at Shawfield in the late 70s - help sell the programmes and wait for players' autographs in the corridor outside the dressing rooms that led from the players' tunnel (for games against the Old Firm they used to up the security otherwise they did let you hang about in the corridor). Hopefully Clyde can return to the South Side of Glasgow sometime soon.
Well done mate. Love your channel. Glad you're able to do it as a living👍
Love your channel. You’ve inspired me to go on my own footy adventure next month, I’ll be visiting a lot of the places you’ve been to. Keep on keeping on 👍
Good video Sam as usual. Cheers to Ross
Only went to Shawfield to see Speedway, which it was a great venue for. Hope Clyde can get themselves a new stadium somewhere in Glasgow.
Brilliant stuff Sam.
A lovely looking grounds from the inside shame to see it not being used
Have you considered Millmoor, former home of Rotherham United FC? The stadium still exists, 600 yards from the club's new home. Not demolished because of an old existing sporting covenent on the site, I think it would be an interesting subject & I could help researchwise. I'm 60 something, retired & spent many many years supporting the Millers there.
Hi Ian, absolutely I covered it last year. Really interesting place! You can check the video out here - czcams.com/video/-E15-PUd5a4/video.html
Thanks for watching 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thanks mate I must have missed that one. Keep up the good work you're a great content creator & if you ever want to cover a Millers game at NYS hit me up.
A team called 'Clyde' could in theory play home games anywhere from Thornhill to Gourock and still be true to their name... but yeah, we all know they're a Glasgow team really.
Another fascinating video dude... keep up the good work 👌
fascinating video man, keep it up
I always thought that it was weird for Clyde to play at Broadwood Stadium, because lets face it Cumbernauld is nowhere near anything. It would be better for a team born in Glasgow to go back to Glasgow. Maybe Clyde should buy the site back and redevelop it into their grounds again sort of like the prodigal son coming home again.
I watched Clyde in the early 80s when Rangers played away and it was boys from Bridgeton Rutherglen Oatlands and the Gorbals that supported Clyde.
The same boys are still at the games each week, some commitment to the cause! 🇾🇪
Croftfoot,Cambuslang Cathkin and East Kilbride also!
Awesome video as always. Find your content really engaging 💪🏻💙💪🏻
Brilliant as always mate
A trip to the greyhounds was part of my stag do to this stadium. The greyhound racing was underwhelming but I really hope Clyde can go return and rebuild the stadium. Queens Park and St Mirren can be a inspiration
Clyde should be allowed to play back in Glasgow.
Another great video!!
The owner of Shawfield Billy King (bookie) died last October. Covid finished the dog racing off. In the 2 years before that, there were anti-dog racing protesters at the gates every night racing was on in all weathers. Whether the protests were justified or not I don't know. Billy King kept the stadium open but never really spent any money on it hence it looks virtually the same as it did in the 70s. There's now no dog racing left in Scotland. The nearest track now from Shawfield is Newcastle. Now that Billy King is dead, it's inevitable the stadium will be demolished, most probably houses will be built there. I've seen Clyde v Rangers in there in the late 70s and been to the dogs many times over the years. Another great video Sam.
My Dad used to say you got a great night out at Shawfield when the
Greyhound racing was on not my cup of tea personally.
Still sad to see Shawfield in the state it is in now.
Nothing is the same as it was before
Covid not as much to do in
Scotland now.
@@alanfox691 Aye nothing’s the same now. When you drive at night in Glasgow the streets seem empty to me, even on a Saturday night. I suppose Sauchiehall St is still busy at night but nowhere else seems to be. Shawfield was good fun. When I first went in the early 80s it was quite busy with a buzz. Over the past decade attendances dropped a lot. Just changing times I guess. The 1936 Greyhound Derby in London was attended by 90,000 people. Incredible really!!
Cracking video...I was in Glasgow just over a year ago and took a look at Shawfield and managed to get in via an insecure gate.
It would be good if Clyde could play one last game there , even a friendly before the venue inevitably meets the wrecking ball.
Brilliant video mate
I am all for Clyde being next to my old school, as long as my old school can still use that beautiful track.
I used to go to Shawfield with my dad to the greyhounds and he told me all about Clyde.
In the Eighties the Glasgow Cup was still a thing and was competed between Clyde, Partick Thistle, Queens Park, Celtic and Rangers and would usually guarantee another Old Firm Derby at some stage.
Another thing to consider is the population of Glasgow has decreased dramatically.
Interesting video Sam with plenty of nostalgia 👍
I remember the big deal about David Cassidy playing there in the 70s. That would have been a big crowd. Someone is cutting the grass so some maintenance is happening.
Shame you couldn't access inside properly, but enjoyed the sneak peeks and actually the best views I have seen of the old place, nice work you two !
Been to both, sad times, loved the dugs stadium, a perfect old venue.
Great video once again. Could you visit Forest Green one time? They are an interesting club in the way the run things and how that has changed over years
Brilliant video! So sad to see the end of a historic stadium in Glasgow. Is there any chance Clyde can return? Is the stadium/land for sale?🤔
Fascinating video, thanks.
You should invest in a drone for aerial shots ;)
I would love to see Clyde F.C. back at Shawfield.
Clyde were able to play in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as only one team per city could compete. Given Shawfield was officially in Rutherglen they were able to compete
The opposite, we tried to say we were Rutherglen, but the main stand fell within Glasgow, so we couldn't compete in it
I never knew this existed! Amazing that it's there still
East Kilbride was begging for them to move there in the 60s. Big mistake. This was the first stadium I visited, in the 1960/61 season. Thanks for doing it.
East Kilbride could do with a big team
It's sad to see a very long slow demise of a football club like Clyde. They do need a permanent home to be able to give the club a long term future
Far too many clubs in this country, one of the reasons the league's are so bad and Scotland is so rubbish.
Seriously think we only need 32 teams and two leagues.
Too many pointless teams which can't legitimately call themselves professional, Elgin, Peterhead, Stirling, Dumbarton, Raith, Montrose, Arbroath, Forfar, Brechin, Stranraer, Allow etc.
past shewfield so many times yet never known a team use to play there
Nice video
Very interesting
A night at the dogs was brilliant
I honestly had no idea that the Greyhounds had stopped at Shawfield,thought they were still going.
I think one of the dogs I backed is still running!
@Peter Syme aye mine to mate i should always back them to come last,always wanted to go to Shawfield for the racing but guess it ain't going to happen now,used to love going to Falkirk for the racing was a great wee purpose built track,it's a Tescos now lol,went to Shawfield for the fitba a few times it was a dump of a ground from what I can remember.
David Cassidy also did a concert there
Great channel well done 👏🍺
Was lucky enough to get into the stadium last Saturday with a bunch of former clyde players from 60s n 70s was a good day
In the netherlands we have the Wageningse berg (wageningse mountain) which was the stadium of fc Wageningen. They went defunct in 1992.
I went to a Scottish Cup tie v Aberdeen in 1984 at Shawfield
Be awesome if they could ever redevelop and move back in.
Top video mate 👌🏻
Pissed out there tennents 😆👍🏼 belter sam
And Clyde are playing Dunfermline this weekend!
Last professional player to play for 3rd Lanark, the late great Drew Busby 🙌🏻🇱🇻
Shawfield is a fantastic old style football stadium. I've been there, but sadly only for the greyhound racing.
I remember being at the old Airdrie stadium in Coatbridge at the last game before everyone chipped in to destroy it. I even got a piece of the turf and put it in the garden at home. I can still remember the guys bouncing on the goalposts.
2:45 Was that John Walk and Alan Hanson in the old picture playing at the ground?!
Was in Glasgow on a footy trip the other week and went for run along banks of Clyde. On the opposite side to Shawfield there is some stones which I could just about read in reference to Football. Would this be the site of the original ground ?
My first ever job was at the greyhounds just 10 years ago. Even then the place was falling to pieces.
The owners haven’t gave a damn about the facility for many decades.
These are your type of videos 👏
Sucha a shame. Sad that the former owner died, but his riches were barely invested in the ld ground. Any fans od scottish football or Glasgow architecture in general, should visit the stadium befor eit's too late. It'll be unimaginative an housing scheme before long. Nicer area that Parkhead and easily gobbled up by developers.
I watched the speedway there for years.
Another good video...
Good video
Sad that stadiums like this are just left to rot
Dam, I remember going here to watch Tigers race, used to stand in the grass in the middle as my cousins raced for the tigers
any chance of us seeing the scarves you have on your shelf?
I hate seeing football grounds abandoned , could be done up and used again surely .
I pass this ground going to work and then coming home. I believe the plan is houses. It's just a pity it can't be saved. It's a large ground and does look nice inside. I'm not a Clyde fan but I have always wanted to see inside the stadium.
My great grandfather won the first Scottish Cup with Clyde vs Motherwell
Wonderful video but I felt very sad after seeing this. Another in the long line of great stadiums no longer in use or simply consigned to history. I don't know the history of Clyde FC but it seems very similar to many of the smaller clubs in England who struggle year by year just to keep afloat. Is there no way the ground can be renevated with the joint effort of the fans and the local council as it would be a travesty if yet another bit of Glasgow history went.