S10 Ep147: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 5, part two: Dumbarton – Partick
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Has Simon got any cash for the ferry crossing? Will the rain dampen their spirits before they reach Partick? And most importantly what's for dinner in Glasgow?
There are three more football grounds to visit, at St Mirren, Rangers and Partick Thistle, plus a visit to the cricket ground that hosted the world’s first football international match 150 years ago.
We hear from Simon Inglis, the author and authority on football ground construction, about how the work of Glasgow-born architect and engineer Archibald Leitch shaped the way we watch the sport today. His stadium designs dominated football during its boom period at the beginning of the 20th Century and one of the finest surviving examples of his work is at Ibrox, home of Rangers.
Then we catch up with Kenny Pryde, whose byline filled cycling magazines in the late 1980s and 1990s when Lionel was getting heavily into professional cycling and who later became a colleague. Kenny talks about the experience of covering Robert Millar’s career.
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| 0:00.0 | The Scottish FA Cup 4th round, Freakensitty Nil, the United One, Clyde Bank against |
| 0:12.6 | a Bernian as a lead kickoff, the D1 Medibanktisl. |
| 0:17.8 | Aloha Athletic, Airdrianians, Heart of Midlohian, Hamilton Academical, Queen's Park, Queen |
| 0:25.4 | of the South. |
| 0:28.7 | These are names I associate with the Saturday T-Times of my childhood. |
| 0:33.1 | When I'd sit down to watch the football results on BBC's Grandstand programme, and the |
| 0:38.0 | mention of Stenhaus Muir and Sterling Albion were conjured up images of, well, images |
| 0:42.9 | of what exactly? |
| 0:44.5 | I really didn't know. |
| 0:45.7 | It's got his league division one. |
| 0:47.7 | Clyde one, Airdrianians, Nil, the Button two, Matros one. |
| 0:52.7 | They sounded exotic far away places, with a touch of romance and mystery that the more |
| 0:58.0 | familiar English clubs seemed to lack. |
| 1:00.2 | It's got his league division two. |
| 1:02.1 | A United Two, Airdrianian, Nil. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm Lionel Bernie and I grew up two doors down from Simon Gill. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello! |
| 1:09.7 | As children, our two obsessions were football and then a little later cycling. |
| 1:15.2 | We played and watched football together and we'd head into the Hertfordshire lanes on |
| 1:19.0 | our bikes, pretending we were riding the Tour de France. |
| 1:24.3 | When the pandemic put life on pause, we talked about what we'd like to do when we could |
| 1:28.2 | travel again. |
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