Captain of Spittal Primary's Junior Football team in 1975, David McCutcheon, met with his former teammates for the first time in nearly four decades to finally lift the trophy they won as 12-year-olds.
Lanarkshire school friends were reunited after nearly 40 years through an old football trophy they won as boys.
The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.But the unexpected victors never raised the Burgh Cup or had their photographs taken with it. The team got their individual medals but they never picked up the trophy on the day.
Through National Sporting Heritage grant funding the museum team based at Low Parks Museum had been able to upgrade the temporary display at Rutherglen Library to further highlight the historic Burgh Cup, which had been played for by junior teams since 1910.
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