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