Plinths & Plaques, Statues and Graves
As with not just this but all our trails, local, national and country, we hold the view that merely recording or even putting on-line is a start but not enough. To do justice to the pioneers, as have a few clubs, even countries, to which they went, as in Scotland in the case of Tommy Donohoe and following the lead of Brazils's Bangu, Busby has too and as has SHFG again in Scotland, but also in England and Northern Ireland, there should be, both at home and elsewhere, place for more statues, golden or otherwise, restored, maintained graves, busts on plinths and if not them then plaques.
So, whilst we research and provide biographical and other details of as many of those Scots, native and Diasporan, who through deed and feet spread globally and uniquely the footballing word, we also look at where, in places from which they came or they rest, and as visual expression of our contemporary, national pride in them and those same localities, some form of physical, outdoor recognition would be both appropriate and feasible.
Dumbarton
The Leven Trails
Dumbarton
Dumbarton FC, The Sons of the Rock, whilst in the early 1870s be one of the triumvirate of local clubs to provide Scotland's doyen, Queen's Park, with its first opposition, would a decade later develop into a mainstay of what s sometimes dubbed The Golden Era. From 1880 to 1883 it would feature in all three Scottish Cup Finals, providing in two the opposition to its mentor and winning one. Its players would be ambassadors of the Scottish game home and abroad. And perhaps most proudly of all of the three original Leven Vale clubs it remains the only one still in our senior game.
The Players - Internationals
And others in Scotland, England and Beyond
Dumbarton Cemetery
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