posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 10:04 AM
by
Endie
The Glenbuck Cherrypickers and Wikipedia
I have taken the plunge and created my first Wikipedia article, on the subject of perhaps the most remarkable football team ever to exist: the Glenbuck Cherrypickers. Only in existence for fifty years, and drawing for players upon a (now-long-disappeared) town of only a thousand men, women and children, the Cherrypickers gave the world no fewer than fifty professional footballers, many playing (and managing: Bill and Bob Shankly were both products of Glenbuck) at the highest level in the Scottish and English leagues (then by far the premier footballing competitions in the world).
For contrast, that is equivalent to London producing 50,000 top-flight professional footballers a year, every year, for half a century.
But why do I tell you all this, when it can be found on Wikipedia? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the nursery of Scottish football: the Glenbuck Cherrypickers.