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Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

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Dunfermline Athletic Football Club are a Scottish football team based in Dunfermline, Fife. They are currently members of the Scottish Premier League, and finished runners up to Celtic in this season's Scottish League Cup, played on March 19 2006. They play at East End Park and are nicknamed The Pars. Jim Leishman is currently in his second spell as manager of the club. The club has recently come in for heavy criticism following this seasons huge price increases which has alienated many supporters, and means that it will cost £23 to watch Dunfermline against Hibs and Aberdeen in the league next year.

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Origins of nickname

According to Black and White Magic, a 1984 book about the club by Jim Paterson and Douglas Scott, there are numerous theories as to the origin of the club's nickname, the Pars. The authors wrote:

Most tend to confirm the more common belief that the name arose from the team`s parallel striped shirts, their drinking habits or their style of play. The latter were both described as "paralytic". The earliest theory claims that in the early days when the Football Club was closely connected with the Cricket Club, the footballers were renowned for their performances at the bar and so were called the "Paralytics".

However in the early 1900s it is known that Athletic`s nickname was the "Dumps" - shortened from Dunfermline - and this is said to have been coined by English sailors visiting East End Park when their ship docked at Rosyth. After the 1914-18 War they were known as the Pars and some believe the parallel black and white stripes to be the reason.

Another school of thought involves English workers who came to work at the armaments depot at Crombie and at Rosyth Dockyard; they kept their association with their local team by forming the Plymouth Argyle (Rosyth) Supporters Club and it is said that the Dunfermline nickname comes from the banners in evidence around the ground.

Managers

Club Records

Famous players

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Honours

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   Scottish Premier League   (SPL)
Aberdeen | Celtic | Dundee United | Dunfermline | Falkirk | Hearts |
Hibs | Inverness CT | Kilmarnock | Motherwell | Rangers | St. Mirren
2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ]

 

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