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In the beginning. Lothian Thistle Football Club began life in 1969 playing in the lower divisions of the Lothian Amateur League as the employee football team of Lloyds Finance. Lloyds & Scottish, as they were known, were run by Tom Allison, an employee of Lloyds, and were more of a social club than a football club with no real ambition except to enjoy their football. |
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After an uneventful first season, Tom Allison left the employ of Lloyds and the future of the team was put in serious jeopardy, with Tom gone there was no-one to run the football team. After much debating with both Lloyds and his players, Tom was refused permission to carry on his role as manager and decided to re- invent the Club, taking his players with him. In the summer of 1970 he amalgamated the former Lloyds & Scottish team with Wardie AFC and changed the Club name to Lothian Thistle Football Club. After spending several seasons in the lower divisions of the Lothian Amateurs, the 'new' club again went through a change of sorts as they realised that they were capable of winning trophies. They won the Second and First division titles in successive years and began to attract a good quality of player, a trait that has continued to this day. But it was not until the late 1980's that they began to make a name for themselves in amateur football at national level. They captured the East of Scotland Amateur Cup in 1987 after defeating Bo'ness in the final and regularly made progress in the Scottish Amateur Cup, although they just missed out on a final appearance in 1991 narrowly losing 1-0 to Blantyre Victoria.
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