The Thistle Archive

We can take a bit of club pride in Jack Hendry becoming our 11th World Cup man, hasn't he done well? Interesting to note that Thistle players have now featured in all 5 of our nation's WC historic wins over Zaire, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and Haiti; not for nothing is the thistle the flower of Scotland! Our featured page is updated today... Jags at the World Cup →

Video now up on YouTube and embedded into our match hub. Set to T. Rex (the #1 at the time) with a few photos from before, during and after the game. Well done to Jimmy Reside for filming and to Rand McNally for digitising, thank you, what a gift for all Jagskind! Sat-10-Apr-1971 Partick Thistle 1 Arbroath 1 (SFL First Division - game 32) →

Well spotted Jagger! Yes, the (slightly grainy) press photo was sharpened by AI. The original is in the match hub in the 'Scrapbook' tab. In our 'Gallery' tab the "enhanced" (?!) photo is marked by the little AI symbol (top right) and the bracketed credit reads (DR/AI) which (as the links tell) stand for Daily Record/Artificial Intelligence. It's a sensitive topic, we're trying to find the right balance, but the traps are obvious. Had a word with Grok this morning... this is better!!!

^ You're the legend, providing such an incredible gift for our 150th! Here's Frank Coulston's goal which won promotion that day!

As of today, we have a change to our top navigation bar, an extremely rare occurrence! On the top bar and to the right you will now see the navigation option of 'published' which has replaced the previous 'partickles' description. In this new 'Published' section, you can now choose from 3 distinct sections of Partick Thistle storytelling. Firstly, there's our long-established 'Partickles' section (featuring original articles by The Thistle Archive & friends), secondly there is a 'Media Cuttings' section (previously known as 'Media Partickles' and housing general press & magazine pieces) and lastly a brand new section, 'Publications' where we'll be including fully digitised copies of out-of-print books, magazines, fanzines, match programmes etc etc. As an added bonus, the landing 'published' page houses a general index which, not only gives you a handy at-a-glance overview, but can link you straight to an article or publication from any of the 3 sections. We hope that you will enjoy this wider range of Thistle storytelling and find it easy to navigate your way around.

Rand, with your permission, we'd love to embed this video into our match hub? We can add your Dad's name in there...

Thistle won promotion in front of 8.851 that day. These were the dressing room scenes...

This is awesome Rand! Think this pair are Jimmy Cant and Tommy Walker of Arbroath. Sat-10-Apr-1971 Partick Thistle 1 Arbroath 1 (SFL Second Division - game 32) → Winter of '63 is spot on...

This titan was born 110 years ago today, undoubtedly one of the greatest Jags in history. Jimmy McGowan →

On this day, super MAURICE CANDLIN was the star man, involved in all 3 goals. Described as a sweet moving left half who made the ball do all the work, the Geordie signed for Thistle in May 1942 and made a valuable contribution to the club throughout the decade, the undoubted highlight being his key role in the Summer Cup glory run of 1945. Maurice played in 5 of the 6 games and scored 3. His brace against Hearts won the day in the Quarter Final and "no Hearts forward could hold a candle to Candlin for opportunism, always on the spot"... Sat-09-Jun-1945 Partick Thistle 3 Heart of Midlothian 0 (Summer Cup Quarter Final, 1st leg) →

On this day 1931, the tour of Denmark finishes with a solid win in the pouring rain at Aarhus. Danish Olympian Hermann Brügmann (long jump, triple jump) guested for the home side! Sun-07-Jun-1931 Aarhus 0 Partick Thistle 5 (Friendly) →

On this momentous night 1884, WILLIE PAUL is promoted from the reserves for his debut. He probably scored well over 250 goals (236 known) for the Thistle and he deserves a statue (as opposed to an unmarked grave). An excerpt from his story... Willie Paul - The First Partick Thistle Giant →

On this night 1930, 5,500 are at the Ullevaal to see the Scottish Cup finalists in live action. Read all about our first-ever continental tour here. Click below for more on the match... 👀 Thu-29-May-1930 Lyn 2 Partick Thistle 5 (Friendly)

St Mirren archived, back-to-back 8K gates at Le Stade de Dreams for the first time this century, when was the last time? All is revealed in this week's 'Stats Watch'... 👀 Thu-21-May-2026 Partick Thistle 1 St Mirren 1 (SPFL Premiership play-off Final, 1st leg) → My Movie.mp4

On this day 1964, over 11,000 at Firhill are mostly exasperated, but it's first blow Thistle in the Summer Cup semi final vs. Aberdeen. Dons now playing mind games by refusing to play the second leg on a Saturday! Below is a great (AI enhanced) photo of BILLY CUNNINGHAM slipping it past Tubby Ogston in the 6th minute, read all about it... Sat-23-May-1964 Partick Thistle 1 Aberdeen 0 (Summer Cup Semi Final, 1st leg) →