Thistle F.C.

Thistle Football Club (also known as Glasgow Thistle and Bridgeton Thistle) was a 19th-century football club based in Glasgow. The club was briefly a member of the Scottish Football League Division Two, and has been described as the most insignificant and least successful to have entered the league. They played at Braehead Park during their Scottish League season. History Original club The original Thistle club was among the oldest in Scotland, formed in the wake of rudimentary versions of the game played on Glasgow Green which themselves had roots in the traditional Handsel Monday holiday mass-participation events, introduced to the city by men from Callander in Perthshire. They are known to have been active with a club structure by 1868, as that year Thistle were the first opponents faced by the country's oldest documented club Queen's Park. By 1873 however the club was defunct, with many of its members joining the Eastern club.