Clydebank chair Grace McGibbon says Saturday's Scottish Cup trip to face Hibernian will be an emotional one as the club continues to rise from the ashes.
Grace McGibbon expects "a tear or two" to be shed at Easter Road on Saturday - 25 years since a Clydebank side last played Hibernian in the Scottish Cup and she was there as a young Bankies fan.
"The start of it all was the selling of the Kilbowie stadium. We'd had to play at Boghead and Morton's Cappielow.With the club in administration, the United Clydebank Supporters Group tried to buy it but lost out to a Lanarkshire consortium. "Very quickly, a group of people got involved and said, 'how do we start a football club and work our way back again?'" McGibbon recalls."From day one, our fans had great aspirations and it was a case of 'how quickly can we get back to the league?' - not having any idea what that road was going to be like, but let's start by kicking a ball on a Saturday," McGibbon says.
They are top of the West of Scotland Premier League and eyeing promotion to the Lowland League. Another stop on the journey to the SPFL. "There will be people at our game who go every week but who'd never been to Kilbowie and don't know the old Clydebank.
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