It was all over! While still a young boy, his mother took him to the They are Paisley Panda, Junior P and Mrs Panda. In April 2007 it was announced that a deal had been struck with Tesco. Work on the new ground started on 9 January 2008.Get a discount with the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme From 3 to 31 August, get a 50% discount when you eat in at restaurants that are registered with the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme. A popular theory is that the stripes represent the Black and White Cart rivers which run through Paisley. St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation News The regular mascots are Paisley Panda and Junior P.The club originally wore scarlet and blue strips, but after one season changed to the current black and white striped shirts, which have been worn every season bar one in the 1900s, when cream tops were used.Having first played in black and white vertical stripes in 1884, Saints were the first club in the world to do so, six years before Notts County.The traditional home colours of St Mirren are black and white stripes, however for the first season the colours were scarlet and blue. The sale of their old ground financed the new stadium and cleared the financial debts of the club. Paisley!’, a great roar went up.The history was made by St Mirren’s Gerry Baker scoring ten of the goals – no one, last Century in Scotland, had ever scored so many goals in a major competition!Its first ground was at Thistle park, Greenhill (1877), followed by Shortroods (1878), Abingdon Park (1879-81), Thistle Park (1881-83), Westmarch (1883-84), Fullerton Park (1894-95), StMirren Park, Love Street (1895-2010) before moving to Greenhill Road in 2009.
St Mirren were formed as a gentlemen's club which included, among other sports, cricket and rugby in the second half of the 19th century. In 1921 the Barcelona Cup, a magnificent trophy, won on a match tour in Spain, found its way back to Paisley.Work to transform the future of Paisley’s much-loved town hall is due to restart – with construction workers due on site at the start of August. St Mirren won the day 3-1. Founded in 1877, Paisley -based St Mirren have spent the majority of their history in the top … Hearts came up against Inverness CT in the semi-finals at Easter Road and were again victorious on penalties.A crowd of 108,000 of which 60,000 were ‘Buddies’ including wee boys, grannies and mill girls (who kept fainting)! The team strips have varied very little in the long history of the club, however the thickness of the stripes have often varied. Celtic had no reply! Within its pages we hope to eventually build up a complete historical database of St Mirren FC, providing details of every competitive match played, … It was their first major trophy since the 1987 Scottish Cup victory.Up to this point in the clubs history, apart from winning the local Renfrewshire cup, they had won the Victory Cup in 1919 in an extra time affair by whipping Hearts 3-0.
A trip to Hampden Park for the semi-finals saw St Mirren run out 3–2 winners against Celtic and set up a final against Hearts. The increasing popularity of football ensured that by 1877 the members had decided to play association football and 1877 is the football club's official foundation date. They are named after