Stirling Albion F.C. are a football club currently playing in the Scottish Second Division. The club are nicknamed The Binos (pronouncing Beanos). They play at Forthbank Stadium in Stirling, on the outskirts of the city near the River Forth. The club's badge depicts the Wallace Monument and the Ochil Hills.
Stirling Albion was founded in 1945 after the town's previous football team King's Park had failed to survive the Second World War. King's Pa...
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Stirling Albion F.C. are a football club currently playing in the Scottish Second Division. The club are nicknamed The Binos (pronouncing Beanos). They play at Forthbank Stadium in Stirling, on the outskirts of the city near the River Forth. The club's badge depicts the Wallace Monument and the Ochil Hills.
Stirling Albion was founded in 1945 after the town's previous football team King's Park had failed to survive the Second World War. King's Park's ground (Forthbank) had been damaged during the war, having been hit by a German bomb 20 July 1940. This was the only bomb to fall on the town during the Second World War.
The new club was the brainchild of local businessman Thomas Fergusson, a local coal magnate, and he purchased the Annfield estate to build a new stadium. Annfield was situated within a quarter of a mile from the town centre and would be the home of The Binos until 1992.
'Albion' came from the make of Fergusson's coal trucks.. This unfortunately is an urban myth. Albion...
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