east end jag Posted March 28, 2020 Report Share Posted March 28, 2020 It's testament to how bored l am that l've started trawling Netflix for things to watch. Anyway The English Game, which is loosely based on history, features two Scottish players Fergus Sutar and James Love who leave Partick to join Darwen. The date of their move is 1878. Anybody know what (or who) the football team Partick are - is it us? And if it is, why do we not know more about the best players in the world at that time beginning their careers with us? Anyway, here's what they have on Wikipedia about Sutar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_Suter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
east end jag Posted March 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2020 Ok, l followed the Partick link and answered my own question. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partick_F.C. Who said the internet can be a place where you only learn what you are prepared to look for! Anyway, the story about Partick FC and us looks interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted March 28, 2020 Report Share Posted March 28, 2020 Just started watching it. The link below, you may have to zoom in, would suggest that they were indeed Partick Thistle players, and therefore that the Jags introduced real football to England. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BkICPoHh3oAC&pg=PT19&lpg=PT19&dq=fergus+soutar+jimmy+love&source=bl&ots=PRuIJD3V3z&sig=ACfU3U09Cu4Wjg2ATNbev97prB5BUu5t5A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS96imhr7oAhUHilwKHdDDAKcQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=fergus soutar jimmy love&f=false Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted March 28, 2020 Report Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) How times change. Top of the English game, accusations of cheating by spending excessive money to bring in two players with big reputations, from Partick Thistle Edited March 28, 2020 by allyo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cfirejkl Posted March 29, 2020 Report Share Posted March 29, 2020 It’s on my shortlist to watch even more so now Thanks for the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted March 29, 2020 Report Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) Looked again. I think East End Jag may well be right, that it is a different Partick FC, but the information on the Internet about these players is pretty inconsistent and there are plenty references to Thistle. Link below seems pretty reliable though. http://ptearlyyears.net/two-partick-footballers-started-professional-football By the way I'm not sure I'd recommend it. After getting excited about the early references to Partick it went downhill pretty quickly. Edited March 29, 2020 by allyo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledjag Posted March 29, 2020 Report Share Posted March 29, 2020 We're Partick and Thistle not two separate football teams who were located close to each other, in Partick (somewhere) and Whiteinch? I think but not sure that Partick were the bigger team and that a some point they merged when Thistle ran into financial difficulties. I remember reading a bit about the history in the Partick Thistle Book, which I borrowed) years ago. Was it published to mark our centenary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARu-Strathbungo Posted March 29, 2020 Report Share Posted March 29, 2020 was a subject discussed last week [page 198 of 'who are the Jag players in this photo' ] there are a few more links to internet pages that might be of interest? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a f kincaid Posted March 29, 2020 Report Share Posted March 29, 2020 Partick FC didn't merge with the club. They went defunct and Thistle moved to their ground for the start of 1885-86. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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