Scottish football team Albion Rovers could be renamed as Shamrock Rovers Coatbridge due to the Irish heritage in the area, reports Gordan Park of the Daily Record:
Albion Rovers and Coatbridge – affectionately known as the village of the footballing damned.
With the exception of maybe Bernie Slaven, Cliftonhill was a career port of call that usually suggested things were going badly awry. It’s a lesser known fact that MailSport colleague Mick Gannon’s hopes of making it as a keeper were ended after being rejected by the Wee Rovers and replaced by a far more-agile traffic cone just three weeks into his trial spell.
