Denny, Falkirk
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Denny is a town in the Falkirk council area, Scotland, and formerly in the county of Stirlingshire. It is situated seven miles west of Falkirk, and around 6 miles east of Cumbernauld. Denny has a population of 7,385 (2001).
Denny is separated from neighbouring village Dunipace by the river Carron. Until the early 1980s, Denny was a centre for heavy industry, including several iron foundries, brickworks, a coal mine and paper mills.
Dunipace FC, nicknamed the Pace, are the local football team of Denny and Dunipace. They were formed in 1888 and are based at Westfield Park, where they moved to in the early 1970s from their previous home of Carronbank. They compete in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association.
Famous sports personalities from Denny include Niall McKenzie, the 1996-98 British Superbike Champion, Samuel (Sammy) Shields who played for Cowdenbeath F.C., Liverpool F.C., Airdrieonians F.C. and Darlington F.C., and Sir Matt Busby (Sir Alexander Matthew Busby, CBE; 26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994), who played for now defunct amateur football team Denny Hibernian before having a successful career which culminated in him managing Manchester United in the 1968 European Cup tournament, beating Benfica 4 -1. Manchester United were the first English club to win the European Cup, and the second British club to do so after Celtic F.C. in 1967, when they beat Inter Milan 2-1 in the final.
Sammy Baird, who played for Clyde (1949-1954), Preston North End (1954-1955), Rangers](1955-1960), Hibernian (1960-1962), Third Lanark(1962-1963), and Stirling Albion (1963 as player-manager), and won three Scottish league titles (1955-56, 1956-57 and 1958-59) and one Scottish Cup (1960) with Rangers. He was capped six times for Scotland from 1956 to 1958, scoring on his debut against Yugoslavia and in his last match, a 2-1 defeat by France in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. As the manager of Stirling Albion (1963-1968) he led them to promotion to Division One in the 1964-65 season, but he was sacked as the club was relegated in the 1967-68 season.
Robert "Bobby" Brown (born 19 March 1923 in Dunipace) who played for and eventually managed the Scotland international football team.He was Scotland manager until being succeeded by Tommy Docherty in 1971.
