I started St Machar Thistle with my mates. We’d been playing seven-a-side in Aberdeen for a year when we thought about starting an 11-a-side team. I was always decent at football – I’d played at school and got back into it last year when I started university.
We began the application process to be part of the Scottish Amateur Cup last year, and made a good impression to the board. We even got sponsors. But most of us are university students and haven’t been able to commit. Sometimes we’ve had to postpone our Saturday matches as we didn’t have the minimum seven players required.
