Slamannan Rovers Football Club was a Scottish association football club based in the village of Slamannan, Stirlingshire. History The club was founded in 1887 as a Junior club. In 1888–89, the club reached the semi-final of the Falkirk Junior Cup, but lost 9–2 to Excelsior of Falkirk, seven of the goals being scored by Ross. Rovers protested on the basis that the referee had wrongly awarded 7 goals. Remarkably, the Falkirk & District Junior Association upheld the protest, leading to the media suggesting that next time Rovers should protest 8 goals to win outright. Ultimately Excelsior won through to the final, which it won 7–3 against Falkirk Athletic. In 1891 the Rovers joined the Scottish Football Association, thus becoming a senior club, with an entitlement to enter the Scottish Cup and the Stirlingshire Cup. The club's first tie in the latter competition, in 1891–92, was against village rivals Slamannan F.C., and Rovers - the heavier side - won 5–2. The club only retained senior status from the 1891–92 season to the 1894–95 season, only once reaching the third round of the Stirlingshire Cup, in 1892–93. Rovers were forced to enter the Scottish Cup in the preliminary rounds instituted in 1891–92; in its first season, the club lost 8–1 at Bathgate Rovers F.C. in the second preliminary round, having gone in at half-time 7–0 down, and the Slamannan goal being a late own-goal. In 1894–95, the club won through to the first round proper for the only time. The club beat Bonnybridge Grasshoppers F.C. 7–0 away from home in the first round; Grasshoppers protested that Patrick Fisher, who had previously played as a professional for the now-defunct Dundee Harp F.C., had not been registered as an amateur. Fisher explained that he assumed the dissolution of the Harp meant he returned to amateur status. The Scottish Football Association censured Fisher and ordered a re-play; however Grasshoppers instead scratched. Rovers beat Stenhousemuir F.C. 3–1 in the second round and Adventurers F.C. in the third, with a bye putting the club in the first round proper. The tie against Renton F.C. ended in controversy. The game itself, at the Glebe, before a crowd of 880, had been violent; by half-time, each side was down to 9 men. With six minutes to go, and Renton 3–2 up, the Slamannan fans invaded the pitch, in protest at a Rovers player having been injured. Renton claimed the