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Willie Fernie ; Fife’s Greatest Footballer
The Celt · Jun 20, 2020

Willie Fernie ; Fife’s Greatest Footballer

Willie Fernie ; Fife’s Greatest Footballer
Willie Fernie ; Fife’s Greatest Footballer

Kinglassie is a very ordinary Fife ex-coal-mining village. Its best days are now clearly well behind it, and the once vibrant community never really recovered from the Thatcher-Scargill civil war of the mid 1980s. Coal mining is sadly no more. Willie Fernie was born here in 1928 in what was a fertile area for Celtic football players. John Thomson’s Cardenden and Charlie Geatons’ Lochgelly are very close, with Alec Thomson’s Buckhaven and Scott Brown’s Hill of Beath only about half an hour away...

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