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The name of a famous Glasgow football team is being auctioned on eBay - 40 years after the club went bust. Third Lanark were formed in 1872 and grew to be one of Scotland's great clubs before famously declaring bankruptcy in 1967. Ed Sweeney, 67, from Dundee, bought and registered the name two years ago at Companies House. He is now selling it on eBay in a bid to revive the club. He started the bidding at £2,000.
Third Lanark was a Glasgow institution with a wonderful and colourful history and I would love to see them resurrected. Mr Sweeney, a retired media lecturer, said: "I bought the name two years ago in the hope that I could use the name to start an amateur team. "I was a Thirds fan as a child and would go along to watch the team play at their Cathkin Park ground with my grandfather Alex Lorimer in the 1960s.
"I have a huge empathy with the club, but I live in Dundee and have no real experience of starting up or running a football club." Third Lanark, which was started as a football team for the Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, were among the founders of the Scottish Football League.
Famous former players included Ally McLeod, who went on to manage Scotland at the World Cup in Argentina in 1978. Third Lanark won the old First Division in 1904 and also won the Scottish Cup in 1889 and 1905. They last reached the Scottish Cup final at Hampden in 1936 but lost to Rangers.
However, the team played its final game on 28 April 1967 when they lost 5-1 away to Dumbarton. In a radio interview last year, comedian Billy Connolly said he would like to buy a club like his childhood favourites Partick Thistle or even revive Third Lanark with actor Sean Connery. Mr Sweeney said: "Third Lanark was a Glasgow institution with a wonderful and colourful history and I would love to see them resurrected. "They have been out of business for exactly 40 years now, but they still have lots of supporters." Prospective buyers of the club's name have until 2 March to bid for it on eBay.