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Jimmy Johnstone Academy has received backlash after its proposals for a fence around Cathkin Park were approved.
Plans to erect a fence around the ‘second Hampden Park’ through a youth football club have sparked controversy as it seeks to maintain Scottish history for the next generation.
Cathkin Park, known as the Hampden moment, once hosted 50,000 spectators to watch top-tier Scottish sports, from Queen’s Park and Third Lanark matches to boxing matches involving Benny Lynch.
The first match took place in the area after Third Lanark’s closure in 1967, a two-draw win for Cambuslang Rangers against Rutherglen Glencairn.
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However, despite the fact that to date there were three stands left, the stadium was in disrepair for many years until Jimmy Johnstone Academy, which has a 20-year lease for the pitch with cash-strapped Glasgow City Council, did everything it could to get it back. the field to its original state. Its former glory keeping the field and bleachers overgrown.
Since then, they have continued to be found on the playing surface, adding dog damage, broken glass, ATV tracks, burns from fried fish, syringes and stolen cars parked on it.
The Jimmy Johnstone Football Academy got permission from Glasgow City Council before Christmas to erect a 3-metre (9. 8ft) fence around the pitch.
The installation of a fence in Heras, filled with “stay away” symptoms, has caused a stir among activists as verbal mourning continues over how to save the Second Hampden for generations to come.