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Post by Roy of the Rovers on Jun 16, 2022 10:36:31 GMT
It appears that promotion has gone to their heads and they’re changing their name and rumour is that it’ll be FC Edinburgh. They’ll confirm what it is tonight.
Sounds hellish to me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 11:36:26 GMT
Feel free to make your own mind up as to what the FC stands for. 🤫
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Post by rovers on Jun 16, 2022 13:46:11 GMT
When they come down again will the name be changed back?
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Post by chris on Jun 16, 2022 15:24:09 GMT
Absolute nonsence, any team who change their name should need to start as a new team
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Post by teekasule on Jun 16, 2022 16:13:38 GMT
I notice their fans - (twitter fan page) aren't happy - also allegations of miss use of charity status. and "Social club own the right to the name Edinburgh City I believe and they are a separate entity. Long ongoing beef between them and the football side" good old twitter  |
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Post by Roy of the Rovers on Jun 16, 2022 19:38:12 GMT
They've now confirmed their name as Football Club of Edinburgh, FC Edinburgh for short! Their chairman confirmed that the social club had the rights to the name and therefore could pull the plug at any time on them using it, so they had to change it.
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Post by Calum Moore on Jun 16, 2022 19:46:36 GMT
They've now confirmed their name as Football Club of Edinburgh, FC Edinburgh for short! Their chairman confirmed that the social club had the rights to the name and therefore could pull the plug at any time on them using it, so they had to change it. Not a fan of the new badge |
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Post by Roy of the Rovers on Jun 16, 2022 19:55:01 GMT
It's just the castle from the middle of their previous badge with 1928 bunged underneath. They say that they're getting mucked about big time by their council & Edinburgh Leisure in relation to Meadowbank.
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Post by Nanook on Jun 16, 2022 20:45:32 GMT
Feel free to make your own mind up as to what the FC stands for. 🤫 Football Club. Am I missing something, Jimbo? Strange football club history, below are a few comments from articles I wrote for the match day programme season 19-20. Edinburgh City has an interesting history including a 31 year gap in its existence. They were founded in 1928. The club ceased activity completely in 1955 when the local council refused to renew the lease on its home ground, City Park. The Edinburgh City Football Club Ltd (Social Club), which had continued trading despite the demise of the football club, gave their approval, in 1986, for Postal United to use the Edinburgh City name. Edinburgh City ceased activity completely in 1955 when the local council refused to renew the lease on its home ground, City Park. The old club’s nickname was the ‘Lilywhites’ which, perhaps fortunately, went with them. The Edinburgh City Football Club Ltd (Social Club) carried on despite the demise of the football club. In 1986, Postal United, an East of Scotland League team, was given permission to use the Edinburgh City name. I cannot find out much about Postal United other than they formed in 1966. They are not to be confused with a different Postal United, an amateur team that played in Glasgow, they formed in 1973, and dissolved in 2016. The club badge shows a castle with three towers and a door. Surely, there should be a letter box on the door given the Postal United connection? The ‘Lilywhites’ of old are now the ‘Citizens’, definitely an improvement, and suggestive of being upwardly mobile. I went to the Challenge cup tie in Edinburgh in August, 2018, a 3-1 defeat for Rovers. Half time, I went for a Bovril, but well seeing we were in the capital, hot chocolate, yes, hot chocolate was on the half time drinks menu! Posh or what? Season 18-19, November saw City visit Coatbridge, they were second top of the league, Rovers were planted at the bottom, below Berwick Rangers. The highlight of the Rovers season thus far was Gerard Hernando Escuriola’s glorious equaliser in first half injury time, a chip over the goal keeper from just over the half way line, a very worthy winner of the goal of the season voted on by supporters at the end of the season. Gerard was one bright spot in what was ..... to be a tough season; he was at the University of the West of Scotland on an Erasmus programme placement. He is probably the only Spanish player ever to play for Rovers, and the only former Villarreal player. |
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Post by alasdair1946 on Jun 16, 2022 22:31:10 GMT
I remember "Gerardo" well ...lovely guy, I didn't believe it at first that we had signed a Spanish player but he gave his all at every game I saw him in and I saw that spectacular goal from yards out....it definitely was a bright spot. He also sponsored some of our players for a season after he left. For me, he's welcome back, any time.
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Post by tommysermanni on Jun 17, 2022 7:08:16 GMT
Edinburgh City used to have a social club at the top of Leith Walk which is a surely a contender for most irrelevant post of the year.
No mean fete when you consider The Prof, Peter and Stewmelrover post on here...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2022 7:31:23 GMT
Nanook said
Am I missing something Jimbo?
Aye! Use your effin' vernacular imagination! 😃
Interesting history by the way.
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Post by kjg on Jun 17, 2022 21:28:15 GMT
FC Falling Constantly?
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Post by Calum Moore on Jun 18, 2022 13:08:57 GMT
Seems the name change hasn’t gone down well with the Supporters club
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Post by Roy of the Rovers on Jul 18, 2022 18:15:37 GMT
Well FCE are in their sort of new gaff and it's fair to say nobody seems to like it! Admittedly the stand they intend to build on the side opposite the only one they're got at the moment will improve things at least a bit but it seems pretty damn poor.
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