Crossgates Primrose J.F.C.

Crossgates Primrose J.F.C.
Full name Crossgates Primrose Junior Football Club
Nickname(s) The Rose
Founded 1926
(folded 1960, re-formed 1983)
Ground Humbug Park
Inverkeithing Road
Crossgates
Chairman Mick McNeely
Manager Garry Herkes
League SJFA East Region South Division
2014–15 SJFA East Region South Division, 14th

Crossgates Primrose Junior Football Club were a Scottish football club based in Crossgates, near Dunfermline, Fife. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, that last played in the East Region, South Division.

They were originally formed in 1926 but folded in 1960 with the club re-forming in 1983. They unfortunately folded once again in November 2015 due to a lack of committee members with their 8–0 thrashing at the hands of Easthouses Lily on 7 November 2015, being their final match.[1]

Their home ground was Humbug Park, its unusual name deriving from a disused pit of the former Cuttlehill Colliery on which site the ground is located.[2]

Crossgates' record attendance was 7,600 for a Scottish Junior Cup sixth round tie in 1952–53 against Auchinleck Talbot.[3]

The club's best-known former players are Scotland legend Jim Baxter[4] and his second cousin George Kinnell.

References

  1. Crossgates Primrose Fold The Central Fife Times, 20 November 2015
  2. Humbug Pits (Cuttlehill/Fordell) Fife Pits and Memorial Book, by Michael Martin
  3. McGlone, David; McLure, Bill (1987). The Juniors - 100 Years. A Centenary History of Scottish Junior Football. Mainstream. p. 288. ISBN 1-85158-060-3.
  4. Jim Baxter - Obituary The Independent on Sunday, 16 April 2001. Retrieved 26 June 2011.

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