Crossgates Primrose J.F.C.
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| Full name | Crossgates Primrose Junior Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Rose |
| Founded | 1926 (folded 1960, re-formed 1983) |
| Ground | Humbug Park Inverkeithing Road Crossgates |
| Chairman | Shug Paterson |
| Manager | David McNeely |
| League | SJFA East Region Central Division |
| 2010–11 | 9th |
Crossgates Primrose J.F.C. are a Scottish football club based in Crossgates, near Dunfermline, Fife. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently play in the East Region, Central Division. Their home ground is Humbug Park, its unusual name deriving from a disused pit of the former Cuttlehill Colliery on which site the ground is located.[1]
Crossgates' record attendance was 7,600 for a Scottish Junior Cup 6th Round tie in 1952–53 against Auchinleck Talbot.[2]
The clubs best-known former players are Scotland legend Jim Baxter [3] and his cousin George Kinnell.
[edit] References
- ^ Humbug Pits (Cuttlehill/Fordell) Fife Pits and Memorial Book, by Michael Martin
- ^ McGlone, David; McLure, Bill (1987). The Juniors - 100 Years. A Centenary History of Scottish Junior Football. Mainstream. p. 288. ISBN 1 85158 060 3.
- ^ Jim Baxter - Obituary The Independent on Sunday, 16 April 2001. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
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