Northend Thistle Football Club are a football club based in Lochranza, Scotland.
| Full name | Northend Thistle Football Club | |
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| Ground | Ewe Camp | |
| Coordinates | 55°41′54″N 5°16′35″W / 55.6983°N 5.2763°W | |
| League | Isle of Arran League | |
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They were originally founded as Arran Northend, but reformed in 2002 as Northend Thistle.[1] They participate in the summertime Isle of Arran League, contested by five clubs from Arran that typically play on a Monday evening.[1]
In 2005, Northend Thistle featured on the BBC Radio Scotland programme Let's Do the Show Right Here,[2] and in 2008 on Countryfile. The same year, ESPN Asia ran a feature on the club, focussing on its winless streak extending all the way back to 1992. They were labelled "the worst football team in Europe", and highlights of a 2008 loss against Southend were shown on Soccer Saturday.[1] Northend finally won a game in 2011, their first in 19 years, a 2–1 victory against Brodick.[3] Media interest in the club continued, with BBC Sport Scotland running a feature on Northend in 2018.[4]
Ewe Camp
editIn 2005, Northend Thistle moved to the Ewe Camp, a pun from the Nou Camp because the ground is a sheep field when not being played on. Northend also play in the same colours as FC Barcelona.[4]
In the 2020 book British Football's Greatest Grounds by Mike Bayly, the Ewe Camp was voted one of the top grounds to visit in the country.[1][5] Bayly writes:
Ewe Camp is an astonishingly beautiful football setting. Located adjacent to a whisky distillery and surrounded by the sunlit hills of Torr Nead on three sides, it is the very essence of Scotland in miniature.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Bayly, Mike (2020). British Football's Greatest Grounds: One Hundred Must-See Football Venues. Pitch Publishing. pp. 10–12. ISBN 9-781785-316470.
- ^ "Let's Do The Show Right Here! comes to Arran and has a ball with special guest Tommy Docherty". BBC. 16 June 2005.
- ^ Ralston, Gary (17 June 2011). "THE EWE CAMP; ARRAN SWEATERS NOT SO BAA-D What does team with sheep for groundsmen do after first win for 19 years? Flock to pub". Daily Record.
- ^ a b "'We play in the Ewe Camp & wear Barcelona's colours'". BBC Sport Scotland. 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Arran's Ewe Camp squeezes into top 100 football evnues". The Arran Banner. 19 February 2021.
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