Scottish Football Teams Re-formed

Scottish Football Teams Re-formed

The phoenix club or the continuation of history. -

It seems some Scottish clubs have gone out of business, and not been re-formed. Some have been re-formed, but decades later. But often when a club takes the label of a previous club, they get counted as new club, rather than as the continuation of the original club. 

I do not see why some Scottish clubs do not get re-formed at a big scale now? 

Take historic clubs like Third Lanark, Renton, St Bernard’s, and Vale of Leven, which are very historic clubs who won major Scottish national trophies. Yet they did not seem to be rebuilt as phoenix clubs, straight away. Why could they not have continued to exist straight away?

Nowadays when a club goes out of business, some fans soon set up a phoenix club, and continue the existence of the original club. They tend to claim the club is a continuation of the previous club’s history, that went out of existence. I support the phoenix club owning the previous club’s history. To the point of saying both the original and phoenix clubs are the same club. 

But in my view particularly Vale of Leven, Renton, and Third Lanark should straight away, have been rebuilt as clubs as continuations of the clubs that had won the trophies.

I know a new Third Lanark has been re-formed. I hope that club takes the history of the original Third Lanark, as part of the phoenix club’s history. 

Vale of Leven were a very successful side in the 19th century but were discontinued around 1929. 

But then a new club called Vale of Leven was re-formed in 1939. Some claim it is the same as the original club form the 19th century. I support the original and phoenix club, being seen as the same club. 

My view is that the phoenix club should be allowed to be seen as a continuation of the original club’s history.

Why do some claim the new Airdrieonians are not the same came as the old Airdrieonians.? Vis a vis, Clydebank FC,  

With Glasgow Rangers, there is banter from some fans that when Glasgow Rangers went into liquidation in 2012, that that was the end of the original club and a new club was formed in 2012.

Some fans claim that Rangers of 2021 are not the same as the Glasgow Rangers of 2011, 

I support all Scottish clubs in Europe including the Old Firm.  

And I do not want to put down Scottish football. 

I support the fans of clubs seeing their phoenix club as the continuation of the original club’s history. 

Look at nations. When a country is invaded and annexed, then a few years, decades, or centuries later it is re-formed. People see no problem in saying that nation was a continuation of the previous nation’s history. 

I do not understand why fans would want to disregard the history of the original club? Surely all fans want to see the phoenix club as a continuation of the old history?

If I was a Rangers fan, I would want to include the history of Rangers prior to liquidation, as the history of the same club as today.

By the way, I always used to get Vale of Leven and Vale of Leithen muddled up. 

Vale of Leven are from Alexandria in West Dunbartonshire.

Vale of Leithen are from Innerleithen in Southern Scotland.