Third Lanark AC

DoD · Member

Third Lanark for Sale

bigeye · Senior Member

DoD

There is also a band using the name Third Lanark

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=40639361

I always thought it was Third Lanark Athletic Club so don't know whether this guy has just registered TLFC and is hoping for the best.
PTL has had dealings with him.

DoD · Member

I've just been checking on the Companies House website and it seems that this particular loser lives in a flat in Dundee - at least that is the registered address of the company. My guess is that you are right and he has done just that - registered it and hopes he might make a killing.

However, I was surprised to see that there is also another entry as 'The Third Lanark Athletic Club', Shaftesbury House, 5 Waterloo Street, Glasgow. No accounts have been filed so I assume that someone is biding their time here too.

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

Indeed this man from Dundee did phone me up a number of months ago and enquired as to whether I would be interested in purchasing the name Third Lanark Football Club for a coll 18,000 pounds. He quoted this amount as apparently he had already a high offer. He also informed me he had serious plans to convert Cathkin Park into a 6000 seater stadium for them. When I invited him to attend the Third Lanark video night we had last November, he rang off at the last minute saying he was too ill to come along. He did suggest that I asked all those attending the night if they would like to club together and we could all come up with a few thousand to buy the name off him. I was certainly doing no such thing at the meeting. The guy whose name is Ed Sweeney also told me he had bought the name Meadowbank Thistle and told me that he had sold that name back to a fan for a substantial sum, this is also mentioned in The Sun. However a quick check on Companies House shows that Meadowbank Thistle is registered to his flat in Dundee so I really do not know what to believe.

I sadly think greed seems to motivate the guy. The proper name was Third Lanark Athletic Club and I wrote to the address mentioned by dod on Waterloo Street enquiring about their interest in having registered the name Third Lanark Athletic Club and I received my mail back as though there was nothing at that address but it is registered to there.

I really do not know what to make of this Ed Sweeney from Dundee, I am extremely disappointed if it is sheer greed which motivates him, the main factor which sadly destroyed the HiHi, however there could be a positive in that the whole thing sparks a genuine revival of Thirds and someone takes up the cause.

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

I should add that this same guy Ed Sweeney was also in The Sunday Post and The Sunday Mail in May 2006 popping up jsut after the Sean Connery and Billy Connolly items stating that if they were going to resurrect the club to make him an offer for the name.

DoD · Member

If ever anyone wanted to resurrect the club, the last thing they would need would be to have to spend thousands on buying the name. I don't think it really matters: they could easily give it the name Third Lanark (2007) AC, or FC or something like that. Our laddie in Dundee can't possibly buy up every permutation.

If the club returned, most people around now have never heard of them so wouldn't care what they were called. I asked a girl in our office who was from Coatbridge whether she knew about them (I work in London) and she'd never heard of them. Admittedly she was born 11 years after they went bust though, so I asked to to ask her father. She also said when I told her about Sean Connery and the Big Yin that they were both staunch Celtic supporters as far as she was aware. So perhaps that was just a Billy Connelly wind-up, particularly as nothing has happened since.

bigeye · Senior Member

There was a couple of lines in either the Evening Times or the Daily Record yesterday (can't remember which) regarding this but it only results in giving some credence to what is merely a money making scam by a chancer.

Bert at Cathkin · Veteran Member

Hi Hi Hi,

And still Thirds hit the headlines.

For your interest ( many will have seen this article in today's Sunday Post.) click on to -

www.dcthomson.co.uk/mags/post/news4.htm

Bert.

DoD · Member

Serves him right. No tears shed for him here. As the article says, I think he is doomed to fail. Clearly, someone didn't do their homework properly.

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

Great article, interesting how Ed Sweeney says he would be incensed if anyone else tried to register the name and make a profit out of it. Is that not exactly what he is trying to do?

Also he claims he registered it first, really? He must be a good age if he was around in 1872

DoD · Member

Well, the auction has ended, and as I suspected, no sale!

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

I Have heard someone did put in a bid for it, but am trying to check with finished listings on ebay to try and check who it was

DoD · Member

You're right. For some reason, he listed it twice. I watched one of them, which wasn't sold. However, the other one was sold for £2000 (the minimum bid). Not sure whether the transaction is complete because the bidder had zero feedback and so far both he and the seller still have zero feedback.

I must say I'm very surprised.

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

Im surprised as well. We can only hope that the person who has payed for this Third Lanark name is someone determined to bring the team back

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

It might well be that the buyer just joined ebay for the sole reason of purchasing the name. it si likely that Ed Sweeney joined Ebay for the sole reason of selling the name so therefore that neither plans to use it again or is unsure of the feedback function, then again as you say could be the transaction has still to take place.

DoD · Member

partick thistle lad wrote:

Im surprised as well. We can only hope that the person who has payed for this Third Lanark name is someone determined to bring the team back

I hope you are right but I expect that someone has just bought it on the off chance that he might be able to make a better profit down the line. Also, I wonder why, if someone was genuinely interested, why they didn't try to find the owner of the 'proper' name in Waterloo Street.

Made my first trip to Cathkin last week. Dreadful weather, but here is probably the best of the photos

https://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k237/lokoplovdiv/P1010166.jpg

partick thistle lad · Senior Member

Good photo mate! Imagine what it was like with 20,000 in it fantastic.
Not being born when the original Third Lanark played I saw the Thirds Amateurs play there a couple of years back, was great watching a game at Cathkin when it was aa Third Lanark team that was playing! Hope there will be again one day soon!