Northend Thistle F.C.

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Northend Thistle
Full nameNorthend Thistle Football Club
GroundEwe Camp
Coordinates 55°41′54″N5°16′35″W / 55.6983°N 5.2763°W / 55.6983; -5.2763
LeagueIsle of Arran League

Northend Thistle Football Club are a football club based in Lochranza, Scotland.

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", but they showed highlights of a 2008 win which was their first win in 18 years, against Southend, which were shown on Soccer Saturday in 2020. [1] [3] Media interest in the club continued, with BBC Sport Scotland running a feature on Northend in 2018. [4]

Ewe Camp

In 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bayly, Mike (2020). British Football's Greatest Grounds: One Hundred Must-See Football Venues. Pitch Publishing. pp. 10–12. ISBN   9-781785-316470.
  2. ↑ "Let's Do The Show Right Here! comes to Arran and has a ball with special guest Tommy Docherty". BBC . 16 June 2005.
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. 1 2 "'We play in the Ewe Camp & wear Barcelona's colours'". BBC Sport Scotland . 10 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Arran's Ewe Camp squeezes into top 100 football venues". The Arran Banner . 19 February 2021.


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