Are you sure you want to submit this vote? I think his dad was a committee member of the Cherrypickers once upon a time.

A delegation, including a Liverpool video-maker, Maurice Alexander, whose cameraman survived a 150ft fall while filming at the site, were sent to talk with Scottish Coal. "To see the impact my grandad's memory still has on people is quite profound really. An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. With no work and no pitch, the Cherrypickers were finished and so too was Glenbuck.

Shankly was forged in the Glenbuck football furnace. The most insightful comments on all subjects You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. The white home shirt is a clean classic style. His uncle, Bob Blythe, played for Rangers and his four brothers all pursued successful careers. The footprint of the village has been rendered unrecognisable by opencast work which began in the 1990s. You’re spot on, the Shankly family influence in football goes far beyond Bill and his brothers. "I think they’re very very similar in that respect, they both come from small villages/areas - Klopp from the Black Forest, Shankly from Glenbuck - but they clearly hold the same principles and attitude of ‘if you work hard for the team you can achieve anything’ and I think Shankly proved that and Klopp is proving it in the modern era.". In essence, it seeks to establish a football museum housing artefacts related to Shankly and the Cherrypickers, but also – and perhaps more importantly – launch a series of coaching clinics for local youngsters, with a view to forming a fully-fledged football academy in due course. A native of Hackensack, New Jersey, who has become an unlikely cheerleader for our game’s genesis, he is keen to emphasise the village’s leading role as part of a wider tradition inextricably tied to heavy industry; Matt Busby, of course, went down the pits at 16, as did Jock Stein. ( Log Out /  “That area of Ayrshire and Lanarkshire, sitting on the coal rim, provided Scottish and English football with many professional footballers,” he says. Others went south to Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End, Liverpool, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Portsmouth and Manchester City. continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates.

And, of course, Glenbuck holds a special place in our hearts. We're very pleased to release these shirts.

You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies In any case, success was plentiful; no definitive list of honours exists, but the village team secured at least six Cumnock Cups, three Ayrshire Junior Challenge Cups, two Ayrshire Charity Cups, and one Mauchline Cup and Ayrshire Junior Cup apiece.

“Me and my sister would often stay over at his at weekends, and before we went to sleep, he would always come in and tell us stories about Glenbuck, it was something he always wanted to share. The first to turn professional was Alex Tait.

Satisfactory References and Security’. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. He has tracked down relatives of old Cherrypickers players, and has been liaising with the Shankly family with a view to securing some “bits and bobs” to display in the completed museum. We don’t want Glenbuck to be lost or forgotten. The Banner of Glenbuck, he says, “ticks all the boxes” which collectively form the organisation’s ethos. I could imagine him riding around in his bike. ( Log Out /  It was a great experience. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Only a solitary writer escaped the famous Govan ire reserved for the ignorant. "For such a small place to produce so many is an amazing achievement and a big goal for us is to turn Burnside Park back into a place where football can be played again and we hope to be able to reform the Glenbuck Cherrypickers as an amateur team to keep alive the memory of the football team and the village itself.

To understand more requires an awareness of industrial and social history. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when It appears on maps just south of the A70 as the road waltzes with the river through the hinterlands between Muirkirk and Douglas, but only one building – Spireslack, a dilapidated former farmhouse – remains at its heart, punctuating a landscape so pocked by opencast mining, it could pass for a lunar surface. That would have made him happy. On the verges of what once was Glenbuck, by the side of a tarmacadam road north of a quiet loch abundant with trout, an elegant memorial pays tribute. What an inspiration he was. SOS are both humbled and proud to be part of these celebrations.”. The East Ayrshire mining community of Glenbuck gave birth to legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly in 1913 and, after years after lying abandoned, has had new life breathed into it after years of campaigning to protect the site's football and geological heritage. At the time Bob Shankly was more pertinent to us as he was the Hibs manager. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium.