Shielfield Park, home of Berwick Rangers since 1954 and, famously, in England but the regular host of football in first the Scottish Football League and now the Scottish Lowland League following relegation in 2019.
The article title relates to a very kindly volunteer at the club who gave my dad and me an impromptu guided tour while we were on holiday in the area recently, sadly leaving just one day before the final home league game of the season, a 4-1 victory against Broxburn Athletic.
Times have been tough since that relegation, the opening of a pyramid system in Scotland allowing for the rise of a number of ambitious clubs but also a fall for Berwick, Cowdenbeath, East Stirling and Albion Rovers, staples of the classified results in my youth but all now in the Lowland League.
But the local community continues to get behind their club, highlighted by a largely upbeat update on the club website a couple of weeks before this photo was taken.
Up in the Highland League it has been another exciting season with a title race decided on the final day once again.
Brechin City (another former Scottish League side) just missed out to Brora Rangers who now play East Kilbride, winners of the Lowland League, for the right to play the bottom side in League Two in a promotion/relegation play-off.
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