He also played for Celtic 1948-1958, Middlesbrough 1958-1960, St. Mirren 1961-1963, Partick Thistle 1963, Alloa 1963, Fraserburgh 1963-1964, Coleraine 1964 and Bangor 1964-1965 before becoming manager of Kilmarnock FC 1973-1977.

The clubs at which he trialled included Queen of The South, Partick Thistle, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and East Fife.

The Scottish Premier League experimented briefly with playoffs in the mid-1990s, with only one team-Dundee United-achieving promotion through it ( Partick Thistle were relegated at their expense ).

* Christie Elliot ( Footballer ), Partick Thistle F. C.

The new members of the Second Division are Cowlairs ( re – elected to the SFL ), Hibernian, Greenock Morton, Motherwell, Northern FC, Partick Thistle, Port Glasgow Athletic and Thistle FC.

and Scotland striker James McFadden attended Turnbull High School ( the local Roman Catholic secondary school ), as did top Snooker player Stephen Maguire and former Celtic and Partick Thistle striker Gerry Britton, previously manager of Stranraer F. C.

and now assistant manager of Partick Thistle.

Partick Thistle Firhill Stadium

Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football club from Glasgow.

Partick Thistle Football Club were formed in 1876 in the burgh of Partick ( then administratively independent of Glasgow into which it was subsumed in 1912 ).

Between 1996 and 2006, Partick Thistle were promoted three times and relegated four times in what was an unpredictable decade in their history.

The current sponsor of Partick Thistle Football Club is drinks company MacB, returning after a brief absence towards the end of the 2011 / 2012 season.

Maryhill is home to Firhill Stadium, home of Partick Thistle since 1909, and since 2005, the professional Rugby Union team, Glasgow Warriors.

Partick Thistle Football Club were formed in the area in 1876, but left to play in the Maryhill area of Glasgow in 1909.

Former Scotland international and Partick Thistle goalkeeper in the 1970s and 1980s, Alan Rough is a former Glenafton manager.

* Gordon Dalziel-Rangers, Raith Rovers & Partick Thistle

* Tommy Turner-former St. Johnstone, Partick Thistle, Morton and St. Mirren midfielder.

* Andy Murdoch-former Partick Thistle goalkeeper.

* Neilly Gibson-Rangers, Partick Thistle

The club have had a few brushes with glory in the 1998 / 99 season they won the Sectional League Cup Final beating Ballieston 5-0 at Motherwells Fir Park, the 2002 / 2003 season they came within goal difference of winning the newly formed Super League losing out to Pollok Fc and the 2005 / 06 season they won the Super League First Division and the Sectional League Cup Final beating East Kilbride Thistle on penalties after a 0-0 draw at Partick Thistle's Firhill Stadium.

New ground regulations imposed by the safety authorities saw the club vacate Douglas Park, home to the Accies since 1888, in 1994 but the hoped for move to a new stadium did not materialise as planned and the club ground shared with Albion Rovers and Partick Thistle ( two spells ) for seven years.

Despite their name, the club are based in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not played in Partick since 1908.

In their early years, the side played in several places, including what are now the sites for: Partick Railway Station, Morrisons supermarket near the River Kelvin, and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Partick is the area of the city most connected with the Highlands, and several Gaelic agencies, such as the Gaelic Books Council are based in the area.

In addition to the interchange with services from Glasgow Queen Street ( High Level ) and Edinburgh Waverley, there are interchanges with the Cumbernauld Line at Springburn, with the Maryhill Line at, and with the Glasgow Subway at Partick.

The two stops on either side of those are Kelvinhall in Partick, and St George's Cross in Woodlands.

The nearest Subway stations are Hillhead, Partick and Kelvinhall.

There was previously a Kelvin Hall railway station, but it was unattached to the subway station, which was at any rate still known as Partick Cross at the time of that station's closure in 1964 as part of the Beeching axe.

Partick Leslie was born in Warthill, also known as Meikle Wartle in Aberdeenshire on 25 September 1815.

Partick Community Council is an organization which exists in the area to deal with issues within the community.

Partick is home to the West of Scotland Cricket Club's Hamilton Crescent ground, which was the site of the first ever international football match ( between Scotland and England ) on 30 November 1872.

Purdon Street, which runs parallel with Keith Street, was named after John Purdon, a prominent Quaker who lived in Partick in the 17th century.

During the Middle Ages, Govan was the site of a ferry which linked the area with Partick for seasonal cattle drovers.

In 1136, when Glasgow Cathedral was formally consecrated, King David I ( 1124 – 53 ) gave to the See the lands of Partick and also of the church at Govan ( on opposite sides of the River Clyde ), which became a prebend of Glasgow.

A record home crowd of 12, 000 attended a third round Scottish Cup tie against Partick Thistle on 19 February 1921, which the visitors won 2 – 1 before going on to lift the trophy.

West have played in red and yellow coloured strips since 1871, which the then local football club Partick Thistle decided to copy in the 1930s when they also switched from dark blue strips.

This appeared to be difficult, given that Edinburgh had less than half the population of Greater Glasgow, which had six league clubs ( Celtic, Rangers, Partick Thistle, Clyde, Queen's Park and Third Lanark ).

He was a member of the famous Partick Thistle team of 1971 which defeated Celtic in the League Cup final 4 – 1.

He also wrote the 1995 to 1996 sitcom Atletico Partick ; the six-episode series Breeze Block starring Tim Healy which aired on BBC Choice in 2002, and he created and co-wrote the sitcom The Crouches, which aired on BBC One from 2003 to 2005.

The 1872 international match took place between England and Scotland on 30 November, with Alcock ruled out of the England side which drew 0-0 at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground in Partick through injury sustained two weeks earlier, playing for Old Harrovians against Old Etonians.

They then returned to the Whiteinch area in 1885 when they moved into the Inchview home of their by now defunct rivals Partick F. C., which is near the location of the Clyde Tunnel's north entrance.