Tinpot: New book celebrates Scottish football's forgotten triumphs
Tinpot is the story of football's lost tournaments: the strange and forgotten competitions that sparked into life before disappearing forever.
The FA Cup and Football League are the oldest competitions of their kind in the world. They are the survivors - the bright ideas that quickly caught on. Yet, behind these successes lie countless failed experiments. But they still have their stories to tell.
Featuring over 40 forgotten football tournaments, Tinpot visits the curious world where:
- Celtic became champions of Britain after beating Liverpool in a showdown in Dubai
- The Hoops dismissed top English and Scottish opposition to win the British League Cup, Empire Exhibition Trophy and Coronation Cup
- Airdrie knocked out Manchester City on their way to a Texaco Cup final
- Sir Alex Ferguson's St Mirren got the better of George Best's Fulham
- Motherwell triumphed over Tottenham Hotspur
- St Mirren became the only club from north of the border to win the Anglo-Scottish Cup
- Hearts fought their way to the final of the first ever Texaco Cup
- Scotland beat England to win the inaugural Rous Cup
- St Mirren participated in the unique and short-lived Anglo-Scottish Challenge Cup, which was a contest between the winners of the Scottish Cup and FA Cup. The first leg against Coventry City ended in a 1-1 draw and nearly 40 years later we're still waiting for the second leg to be played...
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